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You’ve heard the “prophecy”: next year is going to be the year of the Linux desktop, right? Linux is no longer the niche hobby of bearded sysadmins and free software evangelists that it was a decade ago! Modern distributions like Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, and Linux Mint are sleek, accessible, and — dare I say it — mainstream-adjacent.

Linux is ready for professional work, including video editing, and it even manages to maintain a slight market share advantage over macOS among gamers, according to the Steam Hardware & Software Survey.

However, it’s not ready to dethrone Windows. At least, not yet!

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    An effective terminal is a feature, not a bug. Every Linux problem has the same solution: search the web, ctrl-c, ctrl-v.

    No navigating through “settings” and “preferences” and “tools” menus to figure out where this particular developer decided to hide that particular setting. Just copy and paste, problem solved.

    • 3abas@lemm.eeEnglish
      42·
      2 days ago

      That’s a bad take. Learning the bad habit of copy/pasting command and depending on the Internet to do the most basic changes to your computer is not a “feature” of the terminal. I can Google how to navigate Windows control center too.

      Setting search is a solved problem, you simply search for the setting name in the UI, it’s way easier than navigating terminal flags and switches.

      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Setting search is a solved problem, you simply search for the setting name in the UI,

        This assumes the developer bothered to make that setting available through the UI.

        With the terminal, that isn’t a problem: You’re using the same UI as the developer.

        • 3abas@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          2 days ago

          That assumes the programmer bothered to make user friendly flags… The terminal doesn’t magically just work.

          • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            With open source, the delineation between “user” and “programmer” is arbitrary and capricious. The GUI-centric Windows approach reinforces that artificial distinction; the terminal breaches that barrier.