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by never_inline 1160 days ago
Hardware & Application support is what challenges Linux adoption on Desktop (well, Laptop, because people hardly use desktop these days).

Major desktop environment UIs are just as fine, if not better. They're just unfamiliar.
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readme 1159 days ago
Hardware support imo is pretty good on Linux, if not better than on OS X/Windows. Especially legacy hardware.

In themselves, each desktop is OK, the problem is that the UI experience is fragmented across several different toolkits (i.e. gtk, qt, etc) so it doesn't look consistent.

Windows and Mac do not have this problem.

The other problem is that a client-server architecture is inefficient for a locally rendered UI.

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never_inline 1159 days ago
> Especially legacy hardware.

OTOH, when you buy a new laptop from a budget vendor or with slightly obscure HW, you have to wait 6month - 1year for all drivers to work well.

> the problem is that the UI experience is fragmented across several different toolkits

On windows also, most applications use their custom UI.

> client-server architecture is inefficient for a locally rendered UI.

Never a problem in practice. KDE is much faster and lighter than Windows 10.

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