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True, as a long time Linux user, it is true that the ergonomics and state of the art has steadily improved, but its competitors on the desktop have also been st
by Santosh83 6y ago
True, as a long time Linux user, it is true that the ergonomics and state of the art has steadily improved, but its competitors on the desktop have also been steadily improving all the while, and they had a considerable head start, so Linux sadly always tends to be almost there but not quite. That is why Canonical expressly targeting user desktops when they started out was a watershed moment, but sadly, that did not sustain because of failed monetisation.
- ubercow13 6y agoMany people seem to moan that Windows 7 is still the best Windows and that macOS has been on a downward trajectory since Snow Leopard, or whatever. Is it so obvious that other OSs are actually advancing and leaving Linux in the dust? For example I don’t find Windows new app packaging and sandboxing (Store apps) to be much of an improvement over anything.
- pxc 6y agoCould you outline some of these improvements? I mostly stopped using other operating systems a long time ago, so my impressions of them are partially ouit of date, but for my previous job I had to use a Mac for development, and lately I'm experimenting with Windows in some virtual machines in order to automate the setup of certain tools for Windows developers. In neither case have I seen some desktop environment feature and thought ‘Wow, I wish I had something like that on Linux!’.