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Indeed, there are issues with every OS. I think though, Linux get attacked most often and usually is because people do not know it as they know Windows.

pmelendez 11y ago
Maybe, but at least in my case I have been using Linux exclusively as a desktop at several jobs for many years and still I found it to be a buggy experience. I'm still waiting for the year of linux's desktop. That's not the case with the server though. I really love the linux's server experience more than windows and osx. There is one thing that Linux really got it right and it is the terminal experience.
- andmarios 11y ago
  The Linux desktop has been here for quite a while. If you expect to see high usage numbers, it's not going to happen. The problem is the entry barrier to a completely different OS. Most people when sit next to me, admire and are jealous of the things a Linux desktop can do (as does my friend from the story), but they can't invest the time needed to learn a new OS; there are literally hundreds of big and small things they have to forget and re-learn anew. This is the funny part too, because for me the same happens with Windows. I can't invest the time to learn the new Windows (I left at Windows XP). Once I spent half an hour on Windows 8 trying to find out how I shutdown the machine! I even opened windows help! Another time I spent as much time on Windows 7 trying to make file extensions visible.
drzaiusapelord 11y ago
Oh come on. I use the Linux desktop a lot, typically Xubuntu but lately ElementaryOS and its full of quirks and oddities that cement why OSX and Windows are the leaders and why the "Year of the Linux Desktop" never happened. Hell, Elementary and Mint seem like the first really usable desktops I'd even come close to recommending (No, grandma has no idea how to even begin using the GUI Ubuntu ships with now). It took us how many years to get here? 20+? While the whole time Apple and MS had easy to use GUI's and stable OS's that just worked. Desktop experiences are a lot harder to perfect than we give to credit to. I wish more people understood that.

pmelendez 11y ago

Maybe, but at least in my case I have been using Linux exclusively as a desktop at several jobs for many years and still I found it to be a buggy experience. I'm still waiting for the year of linux's desktop. That's not the case with the server though. I really love the linux's server experience more than windows and osx. There is one thing that Linux really got it right and it is the terminal experience.

andmarios 11y ago
The Linux desktop has been here for quite a while. If you expect to see high usage numbers, it's not going to happen. The problem is the entry barrier to a completely different OS. Most people when sit next to me, admire and are jealous of the things a Linux desktop can do (as does my friend from the story), but they can't invest the time needed to learn a new OS; there are literally hundreds of big and small things they have to forget and re-learn anew. This is the funny part too, because for me the same happens with Windows. I can't invest the time to learn the new Windows (I left at Windows XP). Once I spent half an hour on Windows 8 trying to find out how I shutdown the machine! I even opened windows help! Another time I spent as much time on Windows 7 trying to make file extensions visible.

drzaiusapelord 11y ago

Oh come on. I use the Linux desktop a lot, typically Xubuntu but lately ElementaryOS and its full of quirks and oddities that cement why OSX and Windows are the leaders and why the "Year of the Linux Desktop" never happened. Hell, Elementary and Mint seem like the first really usable desktops I'd even come close to recommending (No, grandma has no idea how to even begin using the GUI Ubuntu ships with now). It took us how many years to get here? 20+? While the whole time Apple and MS had easy to use GUI's and stable OS's that just worked. Desktop experiences are a lot harder to perfect than we give to credit to. I wish more people understood that.