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Which users are you even talking about then? If you don't take into account Windows and macOS you remove 99.9% of the people which are going to be impacted by t

Which users are you even talking about then? If you don't take into account Windows and macOS you remove 99.9% of the people which are going to be impacted by this (and I say this as a full-time linux user for a decade). > That combination is probably the worst from the both worlds so not exactly a shiny example. I really disagree, Windows's model of shipping DLLs along the app is the only one that works and does not cause headaches for the end-users who want to run their software from 15 years ago (e.g., me, my parents, my non-technical neighbours, etc) ; this is the only thing that matters, the end-user experience.

menaerus 4y ago
> If you don't take into account Windows and macOS you remove 99.9% of the people which are going to be impacted by this (and I say this as a full-time linux user for a decade). How about server-side code powering virtually any service that we're using? I think that your 99.9% would quickly become 0.01%. Desktop is important but irrelevant in this regard. > I really disagree, I beg to differ. I think it's really terrible for reasons I have no time to dig in through right now. Many of them are in fact quite obvious.
- jcelerier 4y ago
  > How about server-side code powering virtually any service that we're using? I think that your 99.9% would quickly become 0.01%. Desktop is important but irrelevant in this regard. the huge huge huge majority of the software I use for doing, like, useful stuff, are offline. Internet could loose all interactive features tomorrow and be restricted to just displaying fixed hand-written HTML pages like it's 1993 and my day-to-day activities on my computer would not meaningfully change - making music with the software I develop, editing photos in Krita and Darktable, writing papers in TeXStudio, the occasionnal 3D / CAD project with Blender / KiCad / LinuxCNC, etc etc

menaerus 4y ago

> If you don't take into account Windows and macOS you remove 99.9% of the people which are going to be impacted by this (and I say this as a full-time linux user for a decade). How about server-side code powering virtually any service that we're using? I think that your 99.9% would quickly become 0.01%. Desktop is important but irrelevant in this regard. > I really disagree, I beg to differ. I think it's really terrible for reasons I have no time to dig in through right now. Many of them are in fact quite obvious.

jcelerier 4y ago
> How about server-side code powering virtually any service that we're using? I think that your 99.9% would quickly become 0.01%. Desktop is important but irrelevant in this regard. the huge huge huge majority of the software I use for doing, like, useful stuff, are offline. Internet could loose all interactive features tomorrow and be restricted to just displaying fixed hand-written HTML pages like it's 1993 and my day-to-day activities on my computer would not meaningfully change - making music with the software I develop, editing photos in Krita and Darktable, writing papers in TeXStudio, the occasionnal 3D / CAD project with Blender / KiCad / LinuxCNC, etc etc