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I appreciate the enthusiasm Linux fanboys have about this. But ain’t nobody but the most tech savvy would even consider it.
Linux is not consumer friendly, it typically involves putting in a shit load of effort to get working with your hardware, the ones that don’t still need a ton of work to make “Windows-like” and compatibility is always going to be an issue.
Yes, there have been a ton of strides toward this dream situation. But without financial incentive, making things user-friendly isn’t going to happen. In fact, much of the Linux community prides themselves on having a “difficult” OS.
Once Linux can, by default, have an easy to use interface, can natively run Android apps and windows applications, and can work with a huge range of hardware, it will never take off. Linux might get a few points of market share due to some business applications finding Linux a better option than updating HW and windows build, but those companies are going to struggle and will be even more dependent on their IT staff for the simplest of things.
Idk the market share has at least quadruped from a measly 1% to 4% on the desktop/laptop. If you add ChromeOS, which is also a flavor of Linux (with limitations and Google apps), I believe it’s like 6-7% market share. It’s basically near the 10% of MacOS in the 2010s. I would say we have moved along well.
Steam Deck is a great financial incentive with 5M+ users.
And Linux can run most Windows apps and work with pretty much all hardware. Everyone but apple codes hardware support for linux. The only time there are hardware issues is if you’re on an old kernel (version) and you want to buy the latest hardware at sale and that’s a minority of people. Like everything but the desktop (and half of mobile) runs on Linux. Idk where the hardware point came from. Idk why you invent stuff when there are downsides to Linux already, which is the confusing information on what to choose and the terminal. That and some windows apps don’t work but they are the minority.
Most people genuinely only need a web browser.
As for android apps, they can run on Linux using Waydroid. Idk why this point is here, since even Windows won’t have Android apps after next year.
I appreciate the enthusiasm Linux fanboys have about this. But ain’t nobody but the most tech savvy would even consider it.
Linux is not consumer friendly, it typically involves putting in a shit load of effort to get working with your hardware, the ones that don’t still need a ton of work to make “Windows-like” and compatibility is always going to be an issue.
Yes, there have been a ton of strides toward this dream situation. But without financial incentive, making things user-friendly isn’t going to happen. In fact, much of the Linux community prides themselves on having a “difficult” OS.
Once Linux can, by default, have an easy to use interface, can natively run Android apps and windows applications, and can work with a huge range of hardware, it will never take off. Linux might get a few points of market share due to some business applications finding Linux a better option than updating HW and windows build, but those companies are going to struggle and will be even more dependent on their IT staff for the simplest of things.
Idk the market share has at least quadruped from a measly 1% to 4% on the desktop/laptop. If you add ChromeOS, which is also a flavor of Linux (with limitations and Google apps), I believe it’s like 6-7% market share. It’s basically near the 10% of MacOS in the 2010s. I would say we have moved along well.
Steam Deck is a great financial incentive with 5M+ users.
And Linux can run most Windows apps and work with pretty much all hardware. Everyone but apple codes hardware support for linux. The only time there are hardware issues is if you’re on an old kernel (version) and you want to buy the latest hardware at sale and that’s a minority of people. Like everything but the desktop (and half of mobile) runs on Linux. Idk where the hardware point came from. Idk why you invent stuff when there are downsides to Linux already, which is the confusing information on what to choose and the terminal. That and some windows apps don’t work but they are the minority.
Most people genuinely only need a web browser.
As for android apps, they can run on Linux using Waydroid. Idk why this point is here, since even Windows won’t have Android apps after next year.
Perhaps that’s where you’re going wrong?