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And yet, year of Linux on the desktop never happened. Geeks are very different audience from general public.
by justapassenger 5y ago
And yet, year of Linux on the desktop never happened.
Geeks are very different audience from general public.
- Grimm1 5y agoSuggesting that App distribution is even part of the consideration for why Linux didn’t catch on is kind of hilarious to be honest. Their app distribution methods being good or not had nothing to do with their lack of adoption and it’s kind of a non sequitur. If I dropped their app distribution onto Windows it would also succeed there with the general mainstream public, in fact even more so, because of the garbage state for app management there.
- Sohcahtoa82 5y ago> Geeks are very different audience from general public. HNers forget this quite often.
- smoldesu 5y agoSorry, I'll let the general public decide which package manager is more ethical.
- warkdarrior 5y agoI'll take any package manager that supports emoji in package names.
- smoldesu 5y agoI don't see any logical reason why you'd want to set an emoji as the canonical name of a package, but pretty much every package manager lets you use emojis in the description and .desktop file of the app.
- sofixa 5y agoConsidering ChromeOS and Android's success, and the fact that Windows 10 and Windows 11 include Linux VMs, it's fair to say Linux on the desktop has had some decent success, albeit somewhat indirectly. The generational switch to Windows 11 will probably only help with that, and IMHO Linux has never been easier on a desktop than today.
- heavyset_go 5y agoI'd argue that these days, the majority of kids' interactions with any desktop computer comes in the form of using school-issued Chromebooks. Those are certainly Linux desktops.