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> Yes. Care to share?, I'm curious :) > Which is not a simple task. Why can't keeping old software be simple? It is in sane operating systems. Hell, even Linu

> Yes. Care to share?, I'm curious :) > Which is not a simple task. Why can't keeping old software be simple? It is in sane operating systems. Hell, even Linux can do it right, as AppImage proves, but the Linux Desktop community is so hell bent on making everything as complicated as possible that they pretty much ignore AppImage. Resources make it complicated (time/money/...). I wouldn't maintain another person's library that he doesn't bother with. > Windows 7 was supported for nearly 11 years and it was rare new software didn't support it for that entire time. You are comparing a paid product with something free. For better or worse new software works on ubuntu older versions as well, but you need to compile it or work to get it there. Or just upgrade. I assume you can also switch to Red Hat which have paid support. > Precisely. Linux Desktop people seem to think that targeting people who only need a web kiosk is somehow going to make them popular, but if people who actually know about and need the features of an actual desktop computer don't like it why would they ever recommend it to anyone? My point there was if you are a power user you should be able to get it working, it's a skill that's very good to have. Other less skilled people don't hit it by virtue of not playing around. The 'Linux Desktop' people that you say are targeting things for better or worse put in time to build free products, if you don't like some switch to others or contribute.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
> The 'Linux Desktop' people that you say are targeting things for better or worse put in time to build free products, if you don't like some switch to others or contribute. I did. I used to run Linux on 4/5 of my desktops and now that is down to 1/5, and only because I haven't turned that one on in 6 months. My complaints are made no less invalid by that. Contributing to Linux Desktop is, in my considered opinion, a waste of time. The community is so dead set on doing things in the most convoluted and complicated ways possible that there is no hope for reasonable ideas.
- adriancr 6y ago
  what do you use now then and how happy are you with that? I for one am the reverse, tried recently using windows and it just got in the way, plus felt like I was being spied on like old times under communism... Tried last year MacOS/macbook but I can't even move the titlebar to the right... Plus Apple restricting everything I can do... Plus Macbook couldn't install Linux on it, crappy keyboard, overheating, easiest return I ever did. Otherwise Linux since forever.
  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
    I used Lubuntu. I tried many other distros, probably several you never heard of, but Lubuntu was consistently the most tolerable. I'm pretty much Windows-only at this point. It definitely has its flaws, and it is definitely getting worse as the new "lets make everything suck as bad as the web" culture takes hold, but I still find that it works with me much more often than against me which is more than I can say for the way Linux desktops work.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago

> The 'Linux Desktop' people that you say are targeting things for better or worse put in time to build free products, if you don't like some switch to others or contribute. I did. I used to run Linux on 4/5 of my desktops and now that is down to 1/5, and only because I haven't turned that one on in 6 months. My complaints are made no less invalid by that. Contributing to Linux Desktop is, in my considered opinion, a waste of time. The community is so dead set on doing things in the most convoluted and complicated ways possible that there is no hope for reasonable ideas.

adriancr 6y ago
what do you use now then and how happy are you with that? I for one am the reverse, tried recently using windows and it just got in the way, plus felt like I was being spied on like old times under communism... Tried last year MacOS/macbook but I can't even move the titlebar to the right... Plus Apple restricting everything I can do... Plus Macbook couldn't install Linux on it, crappy keyboard, overheating, easiest return I ever did. Otherwise Linux since forever.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
  I used Lubuntu. I tried many other distros, probably several you never heard of, but Lubuntu was consistently the most tolerable. I'm pretty much Windows-only at this point. It definitely has its flaws, and it is definitely getting worse as the new "lets make everything suck as bad as the web" culture takes hold, but I still find that it works with me much more often than against me which is more than I can say for the way Linux desktops work.