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I kind of wish it would, but I'm doubtful, Linux has serious popularity issues for reasons which I don't get. Windows and MacOS is just worse, and it is not par

I kind of wish it would, but I'm doubtful, Linux has serious popularity issues for reasons which I don't get. Windows and MacOS is just worse, and it is not particularly close. MacOS is a dumpster fire, and the one redeemable feature it has is that it can kind of run the same userland as Linux, and that is enough to make it suck less than Windows, which, as we see now, can't even figure out how to keep the games market. But still, people will eat what Microsoft feeds them by the spoonful, and ask for more, regardless of the quality.

burnished 4y ago
I think linux suffers from discoverability/friction associated with adoption. Consider the competition; what OS do you get with an apple machine? I dunno, whatevers current. What about a windows machine? Probably the most recent one but if you dont like that you have at most 2-3 other options you'd realistically entertain and they just arent that different - the more recent ones are considered to be worse broadly speaking so it isnt a very difficult subject to get acquainted with. Contrast that with linux in which a question like 'whats a good distro for a beginner?' is likely to start a flamewar. A prospective user is essentially asked to developer a level of expertise and buy in before getting started that the competition does not require. Im guessing that this will offend you so I want to make it perfectly clear - this isnt a value statement, just the recognition that friction in onboarding causes people to leave. This is just human nature, there are likely a number of choices you make that boil down to expediency that others would characterize as 'eating whatever was offered by the spoonful and asking for more'.
- flanked-evergl 4y ago
  > Im guessing that this will offend you so I want to make it perfectly clear - this isnt a value statement, just the recognition that friction in onboarding causes people to leave. This is quite accurate, not sure why you would think it would offend me.
  - burnished 4y ago
    Oh just pattern recognition, quite glad to be wrong though.

burnished 4y ago

I think linux suffers from discoverability/friction associated with adoption. Consider the competition; what OS do you get with an apple machine? I dunno, whatevers current. What about a windows machine? Probably the most recent one but if you dont like that you have at most 2-3 other options you'd realistically entertain and they just arent that different - the more recent ones are considered to be worse broadly speaking so it isnt a very difficult subject to get acquainted with. Contrast that with linux in which a question like 'whats a good distro for a beginner?' is likely to start a flamewar. A prospective user is essentially asked to developer a level of expertise and buy in before getting started that the competition does not require. Im guessing that this will offend you so I want to make it perfectly clear - this isnt a value statement, just the recognition that friction in onboarding causes people to leave. This is just human nature, there are likely a number of choices you make that boil down to expediency that others would characterize as 'eating whatever was offered by the spoonful and asking for more'.

flanked-evergl 4y ago
> Im guessing that this will offend you so I want to make it perfectly clear - this isnt a value statement, just the recognition that friction in onboarding causes people to leave. This is quite accurate, not sure why you would think it would offend me.
- burnished 4y ago
  Oh just pattern recognition, quite glad to be wrong though.