16 pointsby tartoran6 hours ago5 comments
  • nilslindemann2 hours ago
    The distro for Linux Newbies is Mint.
  • taylodl5 hours ago
    We've been talking about The Year of the Linux Desktop for over 30 years. Now it's clearer then ever that such a year is never going to happen. Meanwhile, Linux has become the server OS of choice - and that's not likely to change for a long, long time. Linux has even become the OS of choice for embedded environments as well, so long as your runtime environment isn't too terribly constrained, you don't need hard real time, and human lives won't be lost if something were to go wrong. That's a lot of places where Linux is running. It's just not going to run on many desktops. I take that as a win.
  • palata5 hours ago
    I never understood why some people really, really want others to switch to Linux. I don't really care if many people switch to Linux. If anything, a lot of beginner switching to Linux may well make Linux worse for me.

    I see a lot of "if you want to convert Windows users, you have to...". I really don't want to convert Windows users. I did not move to Linux to please those who like Windows.

    Said differently, if a distro managed to please all Windows users, it most definitely wouldn't please me. I don't see why I should hope for that.

    • nilslindemann2 hours ago
      Disagree. It is good for users of all operating systems, if Linux becomes so usable that it threatens Windows. Then Windows has to improve and we have a race to the top.
    • matheusmoreira4 hours ago
      Agreed. Some degree of elitism is a force for good. I want Linux to be the programmer's system. Just enough popularity to be relevant and have people actively developing it. Never enough popularity that we have hordes of computer illiterate randoms. Linux should be a system built by programmers and for programmers.
    • tryauuum3 hours ago
      Linux is cool and I want more people to enjoy it.

      I see all these people suffering -- pointlessly -- and I want to tell them "come! suffer for a while! In exchange you get low latency, native docker, no ai or bing or other shovelware, being the master of your computer feels great!"

    • NoPicklez4 hours ago
      I agree with a lot of this.

      Most people want Windows to be better, not to have to move to Linux. You can't make people convert, especially people that quite frankly might not want to.

      People just want the Windows they have been using to be better, they don't want to move away from it and that's perfectly reasonable.

  • deterministican hour ago
    I work with Linux every day at work writing large scale server applications.

    However I choose Windows at home. It is just a much better user experience for me.

    Also, Ubuntu often break badly when I try to upgrade. So I only do it as a last ditch effort when something breaks and I can't fix it. I never have that issue with Windows. It just works.

    Not to mention that my favourite games are Windows only.

  • rolph5 hours ago
    pre installation for at least the last couple of decades, is the reason most users have no clue how to manage installation and configuration.
    • datenyan3 hours ago
      To be fair though, I don't think it's unreasonable for the "average user" to expect that there are sensible defaults for the things they buy / install.

      Obviously, there's a huge difference between something like a car and your OS of choice (specifically noting the 'of choice' part of that when it comes to installing a Linux distribution), but I feel as though the sentiment is roughly the same.