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Good for you, but the statistics on desktop OS usage are pretty clear that you're in the minority.

caeril 6y ago
Statistics on desktop OS usage reflect OEM preloading, marketing, and momentum of familiarity, not anything inherent to the operating systems or environments. Anecdotally with friends and family, Fedora has been "normie"-friendly since 2007 or so, with the only notable exceptions being one gamer and one Excel power user.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
  > Statistics on desktop OS usage reflect OEM preloading, marketing, and momentum of familiarity, not anything inherent to the operating systems or environments. Yeah, Linux Desktop evangelists have been saying that forever and yet, as I mentioned, even a lot of people like me who both are capable of and have reasons to desire a different OS find Linux Desktop too broken to deal with. The community chooses the narrative that protects their ego. > Anecdotally with friends and family, Fedora has been "normie"-friendly since 2007 or so Anecdotally I know a lot of people who do some kind of work with their computers and are programmers and general nerds who hate Linux Desktops because they are so broken.
BTCOG 6y ago
You really seem to have a personal vendetta against linux but it has no bearing on the fact that linux runs, it's up to you to set it up. Don't like your distro? Build one. LFS. I'd rather the majority stay on Windows and don't have a fetish for caring about majority/minority. In fact, I'd prefer minimal cli installs that most don't or can't use.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
  > Don't like your distro? Build one. I did, and said so in the first post. Problem is there is only so much you can do with the garbage components that make up "Linux Desktop". I'd pretty much have to re-write everything above the kernel at this point. No coincidence, so did Android! > I'd rather the majority stay on Windows and don't have a fetish for caring about majority/minority. Well that's fine. I'm speaking mostly to Linux Desktop evangelists who seem to really want wider Linux adoption, but without actually having to do any of the things that will move the needle towards that goal.

Statistics on desktop OS usage reflect OEM preloading, marketing, and momentum of familiarity, not anything inherent to the operating systems or environments. Anecdotally with friends and family, Fedora has been "normie"-friendly since 2007 or so, with the only notable exceptions being one gamer and one Excel power user.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
> Statistics on desktop OS usage reflect OEM preloading, marketing, and momentum of familiarity, not anything inherent to the operating systems or environments. Yeah, Linux Desktop evangelists have been saying that forever and yet, as I mentioned, even a lot of people like me who both are capable of and have reasons to desire a different OS find Linux Desktop too broken to deal with. The community chooses the narrative that protects their ego. > Anecdotally with friends and family, Fedora has been "normie"-friendly since 2007 or so Anecdotally I know a lot of people who do some kind of work with their computers and are programmers and general nerds who hate Linux Desktops because they are so broken.

BTCOG 6y ago

You really seem to have a personal vendetta against linux but it has no bearing on the fact that linux runs, it's up to you to set it up. Don't like your distro? Build one. LFS. I'd rather the majority stay on Windows and don't have a fetish for caring about majority/minority. In fact, I'd prefer minimal cli installs that most don't or can't use.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
> Don't like your distro? Build one. I did, and said so in the first post. Problem is there is only so much you can do with the garbage components that make up "Linux Desktop". I'd pretty much have to re-write everything above the kernel at this point. No coincidence, so did Android! > I'd rather the majority stay on Windows and don't have a fetish for caring about majority/minority. Well that's fine. I'm speaking mostly to Linux Desktop evangelists who seem to really want wider Linux adoption, but without actually having to do any of the things that will move the needle towards that goal.