Desktop Lunix is 100 different UX designs on top of 1000 semi-functional desktop OSs composed of 10000 pieces of software connected together like spaghetti.
It's going to be easier for autists to find a way to fuck with and possibly block Windows 11's spying than it is for me to install New Vegas on a Linux machine.
I've got five bucks that says all it takes is a quick registry hack that's all of about three lines of Powershell that any idiot can run.
The problem is, your average normie expects the computer to work out of the box. And that will in 99.99% of cases be the latest version of Windows with the web browser and app store installed and ready to go with the prospect of installing Microsoft Office or maybe proprietary software that is used in their workplace. If they have to download an image to burn to a USB stick, it's already too complicated. Never mind getting to the prospect of dual booting or partitioning the hard drive. They won't be inclined to switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. And the chances of a computer from a mainstream store being pre-installed with Linux, a web browser and an app store is zero. Because Windows has a monopoly, everyone expects Windows and manufacturers will only install Windows.
The solution isn't going to be Apple's Mac OS either because they will eventually go the same way, just with a much higher price tag.
The problem is making it compatible for every windows program is not as easy as people might think.
A game designed for linux, will work fine on linux, but will fail horribly on windows (almost assuredly). A game designed for windows, will work fine on windows, but will probably fail on linux.
The problem is everything is designed to work with windows, and until that changes, there is pretty much nothing to autists can do except screech at those continuing to design things for windows.
This is approximately the same line that was being fed to me back in 2007 when Ubuntu was supposed to be the distro that finally made Linux compete with with the Windows desktop experience.
It's only "easy" to use because of prior knowledge of UI patterns that almost everyone has thanks to Windows' historical market share. It's not naturally intuitive. I have seen lifelong Apple users (before OSX) that were completely lost on a Windows PC until they got used to it.
Obviously I'm not defending any particular Linux DE here, but I haven't done any research on them either.
I have never, ever been in a position where unplugging a USB device bricked my Windows installation. Meanwhile, if a USB storage device on my laptop running Mint gets unplugged without being dismounted (which happens, it's a laptop), I better start backing shit up because that installation is now ruined. Next time I try to boot, it just won't.
When I tell Linux creatures this story, they act like I'm just making shit up, or I must just be retarded, as if it's my first time using a computer and I haven't extensively tested this for my own sake. That Linux has real issues is beyond them.
It's only "easy" to use because of prior knowledge of UI patterns that almost everyone has thanks to Windows' historical market share.
Seriously, you think people would save the shit about "relearning how to use an OS" when Windows changes shit in every mainline release. Remember how Windows 8 removed the start menu and replaced it with that fucking tiles bullshit? Now you have Windows 11 centering your icons in the task bar instead of having them left-justified. "Oh, but it's only one thing you have to change". Oh, but I thought that Windows "works out of the box". Every single excuse people make to defend Windows is the words of a battered house wife: "You don't know him like I know him! I can't live without him! I can fix him! He loooooooooves me!"
No one comes out of the womb knowing how to drive a car, do basic math, or read basic words.
Literally everyone says Windows works until you have to do anything more basic than open a web browser. Popular Linux distros literally come with a graphical software manager that allows you to install programs without even opening a web browser. You're telling me that opening a Software Manager and clicking download is easier than having to find the webpage for the program, find the executable, download the executable, run the executable, and sometime have to restart your entire operating system?
Windows 11 literally gets on stage talking about how "no one else" has done fucking window tiling and acts like adding tabs to browsers is a big deal. Meanwhile, Linux DEs have had that shit for years. They even allow you to open files and folders with a single click. Can't wait for Microsoft to steal that so everyone can blast fucking rope about "how well made Windows is, you goys!"
Desktop Lunix is 100 different UX designs on top of 1000 semi-functional desktop OSs composed of 10000 pieces of software connected together like spaghetti.
I've got five bucks that says all it takes is a quick registry hack that's all of about three lines of Powershell that any idiot can run.
The problem is, your average normie expects the computer to work out of the box. And that will in 99.99% of cases be the latest version of Windows with the web browser and app store installed and ready to go with the prospect of installing Microsoft Office or maybe proprietary software that is used in their workplace. If they have to download an image to burn to a USB stick, it's already too complicated. Never mind getting to the prospect of dual booting or partitioning the hard drive. They won't be inclined to switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. And the chances of a computer from a mainstream store being pre-installed with Linux, a web browser and an app store is zero. Because Windows has a monopoly, everyone expects Windows and manufacturers will only install Windows.
The solution isn't going to be Apple's Mac OS either because they will eventually go the same way, just with a much higher price tag.
The average normie uses their desktop computer as a bootloader for a web browser.
Christ, you would think that there would be a combination that's functional for those of us who are decently tech literate but not fucking autists.
The problem is making it compatible for every windows program is not as easy as people might think.
A game designed for linux, will work fine on linux, but will fail horribly on windows (almost assuredly). A game designed for windows, will work fine on windows, but will probably fail on linux.
The problem is everything is designed to work with windows, and until that changes, there is pretty much nothing to autists can do except screech at those continuing to design things for windows.
So every bit the mess it was when I last tried it back in 2007 with no improvement whatsoever.
Yes. It’s just as bad. I use Mac and Linux exclusively. Linux is a shitshow, no matter the distribution.
It's significantly better than it was in 2007 but nowhere near as good as Windows/Android/iOS and never will be.
This is approximately the same line that was being fed to me back in 2007 when Ubuntu was supposed to be the distro that finally made Linux compete with with the Windows desktop experience.
Spoilers: It did not.
Yes, that's what the second part of my one sentence post said.
And Windows isn't?
It's only "easy" to use because of prior knowledge of UI patterns that almost everyone has thanks to Windows' historical market share. It's not naturally intuitive. I have seen lifelong Apple users (before OSX) that were completely lost on a Windows PC until they got used to it.
Obviously I'm not defending any particular Linux DE here, but I haven't done any research on them either.
I have never, ever been in a position where unplugging a USB device bricked my Windows installation. Meanwhile, if a USB storage device on my laptop running Mint gets unplugged without being dismounted (which happens, it's a laptop), I better start backing shit up because that installation is now ruined. Next time I try to boot, it just won't.
When I tell Linux creatures this story, they act like I'm just making shit up, or I must just be retarded, as if it's my first time using a computer and I haven't extensively tested this for my own sake. That Linux has real issues is beyond them.
Seriously, you think people would save the shit about "relearning how to use an OS" when Windows changes shit in every mainline release. Remember how Windows 8 removed the start menu and replaced it with that fucking tiles bullshit? Now you have Windows 11 centering your icons in the task bar instead of having them left-justified. "Oh, but it's only one thing you have to change". Oh, but I thought that Windows "works out of the box". Every single excuse people make to defend Windows is the words of a battered house wife: "You don't know him like I know him! I can't live without him! I can fix him! He loooooooooves me!"
No one comes out of the womb knowing how to drive a car, do basic math, or read basic words.
Literally everyone says Windows works until you have to do anything more basic than open a web browser. Popular Linux distros literally come with a graphical software manager that allows you to install programs without even opening a web browser. You're telling me that opening a Software Manager and clicking download is easier than having to find the webpage for the program, find the executable, download the executable, run the executable, and sometime have to restart your entire operating system?
Windows 11 literally gets on stage talking about how "no one else" has done fucking window tiling and acts like adding tabs to browsers is a big deal. Meanwhile, Linux DEs have had that shit for years. They even allow you to open files and folders with a single click. Can't wait for Microsoft to steal that so everyone can blast fucking rope about "how well made Windows is, you goys!"