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by ix-hispana 3198 days ago
Don't go down that rabbit hole. Linux is not for desktop despite many years of efforts. Even the distro with the greatest focus on UI (elementaryOS) looks like a toy. That Linux is hugely successful everywhere EXCEPT in the desktop should tell us something.

Just my honest opinion after 15 years of continuous use in university and work.

XKCD still relevant today: https://xkcd.com/456/
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nekopa 3198 days ago
I don't know... I have been on Xubuntu for about 4 years now, and love it. Just got a new touchscreen laptop with win10 on it and hate the experience. Switched the wife over to Xubuntu as her win10 laptop was running like crap, and she barely notices any difference in the experience except the Linux system is faster.

I think for a lot of people who want to just browse the Web and watch movies, Linux is more than up to the task. And suit, recently even libreoffice is working fine for my simple needs for word processing and spreadsheet work.

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emodendroket 3198 days ago
It's like driving a car you have to work on all the time or something. I have fond memories of doing it but I no longer have the time or inclination to spend that much time configuring my desktop.
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dijit 3198 days ago
Lets be real; as much as I shit on systemd, since it released the desktop experience for people is much more well-rounded and I think it has helped distro maintainers really push usability.

Usability of Linux in the past 10 years has been exponentially increasing.

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ix-hispana 3198 days ago
They're going to need something else. X11 and GNOME/KDE/etc will never be mainstream. Ubuntu made a mistake not contributing to Wayland but they were right to try Unity.

Ironically, Canonical is making money mainly with cloud services. Meaning servers - what Linux is good at.

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oneweekwonder 3198 days ago
> XKCD still relevant today

and I wish this to be true for any *nix system.

The ability to venture down the rabbit as far as you want, without black-boxes.

I think a lot of us sit here today because of that privilege.

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ix-hispana 3196 days ago
It absolutely has its place. That place just isn't the mainstream desktop consumer.
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