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That's way too high a bar. Linux for a personal computer is often a nightmare for professional programmers like me; for the average user it can be really misera
by medium_burrito 6y ago
That's way too high a bar. Linux for a personal computer is often a nightmare for professional programmers like me; for the average user it can be really miserable. Last time I used Linux as my primary environment a decade ago I ended up quitting after two years thanks to Pulse Audio and basically being able to play music 50% of the time.
I think we are better off focusing on content generation tools- ie geocities, garageband, gimp, and software that is customizeable by the end user, even if they aren't a programmer- for example being able to skin the UI, or lay things out a certain way.
- zamadatix 6y agoWell I think that's just it - if you want everything to be perfect it's going to be very high bar. It shouldn't come as a surprise you can't have the simplicity and control of an Amiga and the functionality of a modern computer without setting the bar very high. It's not necessarily a failure of anything in the same way it's not a failure of space rocketry to be vastly different than how you could use a bike even though they are both transport technologies we put together.
- captn3m0 6y ago26.6% of developers in the StackOverflow Developer survey use Linux. (vs 45.8% Windows and 27.5% Mac). https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-developers-primary-operating-systems https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-de...
- loopz 6y agoThis is a fair point. Pulseaudio should be purged.
- zarkov99 6y agoYou are very wrong. Perhaps you were right once, but definitely not in 2020. Linux is, by far, the best environment for professional programmers, unless of course the programmers target the Mac or Windows exclusively.