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The truth is that desktop Linux is a novelty feature of the OS and mostly exists so core Linux devs can dogfood their own changes. Linux is still developed firs
by segasaturn 4y ago
The truth is that desktop Linux is a novelty feature of the OS and mostly exists so core Linux devs can dogfood their own changes. Linux is still developed first and foremost as a server/cloud hosting OS. The main players in the Linux ecosystem have either abandoned desktop Linux (Canonical, RedHat) or never cared about it in the first place (Intel, IBM). The ones who remain on desktop Linux are extremely user-hostile and opinionated (GNOME devs) or deeply underfunded (KDE). Many of the people who develop the core desktop Linux projects do their work on MacOS!
- tannhaeuser 4y agoAgree with many points, but Canonical very much does care about the desktop, and Linux traditionally always had a home/enthusiast user base; you could say the core Linux devs sold out to where the money is (and finally land in the arms of IBM) but that was 25 years ago. The point is, if nobody cares about the desktop, why didn't they just leave it alone (modulo driver updates) in the state it was in 2016 to make it objectively worse, without a single new app or other capability gained in return?
- lrissman 4y agoIt maybe a novelty feature as you suggest for many companies; however, this is not universal. There are many companies that use it as a primary desktop operating system Pop!_os, and products released by tuxedo, starlabs, and slimbook. -- these are truly a desktop focus. that's beyond folks like me that run my own linux desktop on my own gaming pc.
- dzonga 4y agoI would say desktop linux is likely to improve due to Steam and their steam deck. just as linus would've predicted. windows these days is a mess. and now some games are running natively on linux via proton. the biggest hinderance of course is productivity / professional software