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"It's just too much work for me to figure out how to use Linux" This is the crux, really. I'm adept at server administration, and have used Linux there for dec
by ubermonkey 4y ago
"It's just too much work for me to figure out how to use Linux"
This is the crux, really. I'm adept at server administration, and have used Linux there for decades, but on the desktop it is, from my POV, pretty much a dumpster fire of bad usability.
Had Apple not gone to OS X 20 years ago, I suspect desktop Linux would be materially further along, but with a well-designed and well-supported commercial *nix OS in the market that ships married to bespoke hardware, there's materially less motivation to make desktop Linux better for people who won't want to have to tinker to make things work.
- gwbas1c 4y ago(Joke) Unless you're North Korean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS Jokes aside: > Had Apple not gone to OS X 20 years ago, I suspect desktop Linux would be materially further along, but with a well-designed and well-supported commercial *nix OS in the market that ships married to bespoke hardware, there's materially less motivation to make desktop Linux better for people who won't want to have to tinker to make things work. Aren't Android and ChromeOS linux-based?
- ubermonkey 4y agoAndroid is, but nobody's running Android on the desktop. ChromeOS is, I guess, but how much of a true desktop OS is it vs. a front-end for Google? (Not trolling; I honestly don't know because I don't use any Google products, so it's never been on my radar.)
- gwbas1c 4y agoThe very first Chromebook was just a laptop that ran the Chrome browser. An update made it more Windows-like, but by that time I gave it away to the Digibarn.