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I think by this point Linux desktop has matured enough that you can say with certain that the biggest problems is application availability. Users want to run A
by amlib 3y ago
I think by this point Linux desktop has matured enough that you can say with certain that the biggest problems is application availability.
Users want to run Adobe's creative suite or Affinity software (because they have to, even tough there are some decent alternatives) or run some very specific Scientific/CAD/whatever software that has no parallel in the Linux world. Worse, sometimes its hard to get Linux native software to run on your choice of distro due to it not being available in your distro repositories yet (flatpaks are changing that but still not a perfect solution) or it being some proprietary software that was really only tested on some old version of Readhat meant for high end workstations which requires you to run some arcane scripts on the command line to install and therefore tainting your whole installation, kinda defeating the purpose of running away from messy Windows installations.
- bee_rider 3y agoI understand that there are closed source software tools used in science out there, but it seems pretty wrong-headed to me. A scientific tool that doesn’t have exposed source code seems not very trustworthy. If you get unexpected results, how do you know it wasn’t a bug?
- amlib 3y agoI was just citing it as an example, I wouldn't advocate for such thing nor do I know really how common this happens.