| ▲ | lynx97 2 hours ago |
| Hurd will have its day once Linux makes it on the desktop :-) |
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| ▲ | adrian_b an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| While I upvoted this, as being true for the general population, for me Linux has made it on the desktop (and laptop) much more than 2 decades ago, around 2003, when the remaining problems that had forced me to use dual-booting with Windows had been solved (i.e. when it became possible in Linux to play movies, read DVDs and use TV tuners). When that happened, I wiped out Windows from my computers. If you have a pro to help you, already for a long time Linux has been fine on the desktop for anyone. My parents, over 80 years old, have used Linux on their PCs for many years, and they did not even know what "Linux" is. That was possible because I installed and configured for them the operating system and all the applications they needed for reading and writing documents, Internet browsing, e-mail, music listening and movie watching etc. Windows is easy only because it comes preinstalled. I have installed Windows at work on many kinds of computers and during installation I have encountered much more problems impossible to solve for a non-expert than when installing Linux. |
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| ▲ | pjmlp an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Linux has made it to the desktop, packaged inside VMs served by Apple, Microsoft and Google. |
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| ▲ | metalliqaz an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | That's not really what everyone means. However the recent success of gaming-related distros such as SteamOS and Bazzite seem to be succeeding where Usability-focused distros such as Mint, Pop!, and Zorin couldn't get deep traction | | |
| ▲ | inigyou an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | This should be a lesson about providing a product versus providing a technology. Ubuntu is "like Windows but not" which is mostly relevant to people boycotting Windows. Steam Deck is "a gamebox" which people who already like games might want to buy. Bazzite is "a thing that turns your computer into a game box." | |
| ▲ | pjmlp an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | No, but that is what they will ever get from OEMs selling PCs at computer stores used by normies. Also lets not forget those distros play Windows games, because hardly any studio bothers with native Linux games. | | |
| ▲ | nemomarx 40 minutes ago | parent [-] | | They play both, which is much better for adoption anyway? And it's contributed substantial improvements back to wine and other projects. |
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| ▲ | NoImmatureAdHom an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It just...has made it. Plenty of power users just use it as their primary OS. I think official figures under-estimate it because many people daily-driving will spoof user agents of other OSes. And there's Android. | | |
| ▲ | pjmlp an hour ago | parent [-] | | Ah, Android, with a userspace based on Java, Kotlin, C and C++ standard libraries, Android native APIs, without anything related to GNU/Linux, unless it is a rooted device, or one gets to package a full Linux userspace as an APK, which isn't fully compatible due to security enforcement mechanisms. I would look into those statistics regarding desktop world wide adoption, distribution per OS. | | |
| ▲ | soperj 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | People using Linux in 1992 would say something similar to people using any of the current flavours of Linux. | |
| ▲ | jhbadger an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Anyone who wants it can have Termux which gives you a full Linux experience under Android with GNU tools if you want it, though. | | |
| ▲ | pjmlp an hour ago | parent [-] | | No it does not. It gives a Linux experience within the security sandbox from Android, which is why there are limitations when using it on regular devices, via PlayStore. Also it requires working around the NDK limitations on available POSIX APIs. |
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| ▲ | vkazanov 30 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Oh come on. :-) Linux is not userspace. Linux is a kernel, and android is a parallel fork of the kernel. So android is a version of linux but is not GNU/Linux. Android/Linux, if you will. We dont have to be shy this. |
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| ▲ | sampo 11 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Eric S. Raymond opines that now that Microsoft makes its profits mainly from Azure, some product owner in Microsoft will be allowed to enshittify Windows for collection short-term profit, thus paving way for Linux on the desktop. https://x.com/esrtweet/status/2084605702203424896 |
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| ▲ | veqq an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Linux hit 10% desktop usage recently |
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