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What is fragile about Linux? Is it your package manager, distro, desktop choice?

• _8j50 4y ago
  It's a deep architectural issue resulting from who the primary audience of Linux is and lack of things like UAT and market research/targeting and a holistic UI design which macos and windows have because they have armies of people to do that stuff. Explaining a developer or someone who can even just install Linux how fragile it is is difficult and that's why such people don't make UI decisions usually in commercial products. The very user friendly DEs do a good job at wrapping around the ugly underlying UI... except when they don't. The expectation I suppose is you open bug reports and issues or contribute. Regardless of what type of user you are, on Linux you are always a product tester alongside an admin alongside what you normally do. And as a Linux user I accept that fact.