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Not only is Linux desktop a moving target, but Windows simply does more. Painful, I know. The single biggest issue is the community's bad habit of hand-waving

by mouse_ 2y ago

Not only is Linux desktop a moving target, but Windows simply does more. Painful, I know. The single biggest issue is the community's bad habit of hand-waving away these issues when they're brought up. I could (and have in the past) make a long list of all the problems that plague me as a Linux desktop user, but there is a default dismissal answer to each and every one of them as to why I'm just being a big baby and it's not actually an issue. My gut tells me Microsoft is somehow behind this. Jokes aside, free desktop needs to grow up before it can expect to be embraced with market share. Until then, people are going to keep using Windows, and people are going to keep wondering why, while dismissing Windows users' answers.

Atreiden 2y ago
> but Windows simply does more. Painful, I know. Can't argue with this. Linux is sorely lacking the functionality to serve ads within the UI experience, send your usage data to a trillion dollar company so they can train their AIs, or crash without displaying a meaningful error message to the user.
- mouse_ 2y ago
  Yes. Correct. But what is the outcome of such an argument going to be? Are you implying that I don't already know all of that? Such a statement lacks empathy for how regular people use computers, which, I truly feel, is why Windows stomps Linux market share.
  - big-green-man 2y ago
    I think their facetious point was "windows does nothing more for the user than Linux" which I tend to agree with, care to share some examples of what windows does better than Linux besides forcing you to update, forcing you to use edge browser and showing ads on your start menu? Windows has market share because they got a contract in the late 90s and 2000s with the department of education to put it on school computers when school computers were just becoming a thing. That is the only reason.

by mouse_ 2y ago

Atreiden 2y ago

> but Windows simply does more. Painful, I know. Can't argue with this. Linux is sorely lacking the functionality to serve ads within the UI experience, send your usage data to a trillion dollar company so they can train their AIs, or crash without displaying a meaningful error message to the user.

mouse_ 2y ago
Yes. Correct. But what is the outcome of such an argument going to be? Are you implying that I don't already know all of that? Such a statement lacks empathy for how regular people use computers, which, I truly feel, is why Windows stomps Linux market share.
- big-green-man 2y ago
  I think their facetious point was "windows does nothing more for the user than Linux" which I tend to agree with, care to share some examples of what windows does better than Linux besides forcing you to update, forcing you to use edge browser and showing ads on your start menu? Windows has market share because they got a contract in the late 90s and 2000s with the department of education to put it on school computers when school computers were just becoming a thing. That is the only reason.