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> is "linux desktop" even trying No. I've been using Linux since 2007 and spent most of my career so far in the Linux space. My goal has never been to convert
by coldpie 3y ago
> is "linux desktop" even trying
No. I've been using Linux since 2007 and spent most of my career so far in the Linux space. My goal has never been to convert Windows users to Linux. I don't care what others use so long as it doesn't impact me. I just want to make Linux better, because I am also a Linux user, and want my own experience to be better. If my work means someone has a pleasant experience and converts, then great, the more the merrier. But it's not my goal. So I think you're right, we're not trying to get people to move from Windows. We're just trying to make something we want to use.
- oblio 3y ago> I don't care what others use so long as it doesn't impact me. It does impact you regarding the depth of hardware support, for example.
- coldpie 3y agoNot really? I have a pretty boring, standard desktop PC, with a USB mouse, and a USB keyboard. It's always worked fine.
- Workaccount2 3y agoPeople have non-standard eccentric setups on windows and it works fine. That's the difference.
- coldpie 3y agoSure. I don't. Linux works for me, and I improve it in ways I care about, and I continue to not care what others use. Like I said, increasing Linux adoption is not my goal. Improving the OS that I like to use is.
- amlib 3y agoOne of my linux systems has a 20 year old sound card, a 15 year old analog video capture card, both PCI, running on a ~10 year old fully upgraded 4th gen hasweel platform with a 1 year old RDNA2 radeon 6700XT card. I can play all the latest games pretty well and its fairly eccentric. I bet windows 10 would have some trouble with the old cards and all my hardware is considered "unsupported trash" by Windows 11
- oblio 3y agoI'm not sure what your activities are, but in the modern age only having a desktop is highly restrictive. I do have a desktop and I don't really have a personal laptop, and sometimes it is annoying to not have a computer on the go, and mobile devices don't cut it. Yours is kind of an extreme use case post 2010 or so, I'm glad that it's working out for you.
- coldpie 3y agoNo argument here! I was responding to the question "Are linux developers even trying to convert Windows users?" with "Nope, we're not."