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Simple things like making RGB work on my Logitech keyboard without having to debug why it behaves in a non determinist way. Most of the time things just work o
by k8sToGo 5y ago
Simple things like making RGB work on my Logitech keyboard without having to debug why it behaves in a non determinist way.
Most of the time things just work on Windows because someone is seeing a business case in working software. I'm sure if more businesses would treat Linux Desktop with higher priority, things would be better.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoLinux Desktop does itself no favors in attracting the business world. It is the most fragmented "platform" in common use, is actively hostile to closed source drivers and software, and has no unified application management mechanism. Add in it's abysmal market share (gee, I wonder if any of the above is related to that?) and there's good reason business don't bother with it.
- fsflover 5y ago> actively hostile to closed source drivers and software I'm curious, do you have any examples?
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoLinux has no stable driver ABI, meaning if your driver is not open source and mainlined into the kernel, then it breaks frequently. There is no standard mechanism of distributing software outside of any given distro's package manager other than to compile from source. Distros tend not to let people put closed source software in their repos. This has only recently started to change as Flatpak is starting to be more widely adopted; even though other solutions have existed for some time, they've largely been ignored by the Linux Desktop community. Even Flatpak gets a lot of backlash from people who believe the traditional distribution methods are best in part because of the functional requirement for software to be open.