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I'm not going to pretend there aren't issues, but subjectively it feels to me like there are few. The UI is decent and usable. For me the dealing with the few
by halbritt 8y ago
I'm not going to pretend there aren't issues, but subjectively it feels to me like there are few. The UI is decent and usable.
For me the dealing with the few issues that arise is a better use of my time than wrestling with things like Docker on Mac, homebrew, ancient python, and weird VPN issues that seem to pop up with every upgrade.
- crispinb 8y agoNo doubt every case is different, so there's no contradiction here. If it's efficient for you, great. Ubuntu wasn't worth it for me. The UI is fine, but there's too much that just doesn't work, or works poorly, and I'm not going to do the research involved to overcome these things. I don't really believe Microsoft is going to do a linux as a consumer-grade replacement for Windows, but if it did, I suspect the issues I have would go away. Hardware vendors would write drivers, missing software pieces would be filled in, etc. [Edit: I committed the cardinal sin - or is it a common convention? - of commenting on an article before reading it. A mistake in this case - I realise now the article is just silly speculative hand-waving]
- jimmy1 8y agoI still cannot to this day get pip working correctly on my mac -- it is eternally damned to never run python correctly, and if it wasn't for rvm and shell magic, the same would be true for ruby.
- JetSpiegel 8y agoThat doesn't have anything to do with Linux Desktops, though. Have you tried to use Ruby or Python on Windows? It's even worse.
- halbritt 8y agoPython generally sucks less on Linux desktops, mainly because they don't ship with an old broken python.