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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Linux reaches new high 3.82% (gs.statcounter.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

What's Ubuntu's "particular madness"? They used to be a little FOSS-only, but they've chilled out on that.

I agree on the other points, though, with one caveat on both.

No matter how many games run on linux, it won't be enough because there aren't ever going to be linux exclusives. Without linux exclusives, there will always be more games that run in Windows than Linux, even if the majority of them run in linux AND run better than in Windows.

Office sounds like a big deal, but Apple managed to prove you don't need it. The real problem Linux has with office is that it has no well-marketed office suite. There's nothing wrong with Libre- or Open- except the complete lack of advertising and passive training to its nuances that we get from MS and Apple office products.

It's not that linux can't win on games or office. It's that the game is rigged against it on both. It took me a few years back in the early 00's, but I quickly realized that there will never be a "year of the linux desktop" regardless of how good Linux gets at games, office, user-friendliness, or anything.

And that's ok because MY life is easier when I use linux.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

What’s Ubuntu’s “particular madness”?

I remember that it does too much, but without specifics. It's been 4+ years since I touched Ubuntu.

They used to be a little FOSS-only

I vaguely remember that "Amazon lens" for Unity, I don't think they ever were that much FOSS-only.

No matter how many games run on linux, it won’t be enough because there aren’t ever going to be linux exclusives.

It's fine. That'd still be goal fulfilled.

Office sounds like a big deal, but Apple managed to prove you don’t need it.

How so?

There’s nothing wrong with Libre- or Open- except the complete lack of advertising and passive training to its nuances that we get from MS and Apple office products.

I recently had a problem with LO, while editing a document with lots of math formulae - from time to time while adding a formula about half of others (in the whole document) would just become empty.

Not sure something like that would happen under Apple suite's analog of Word, whatever it's called.

It’s not that linux can’t win on games or office. It’s that the game is rigged against it on both.

With that I agree, somewhere in 2012 I somehow realized that it's already much better than the alternatives, and yes, for a housewife's desktop just as well, if one's honest and thinks of their own needs.

And if one's comparing it to advertising of the competing commercial products, then it's hopeless.