[pauby]

> People interested in desktop OS are either using MacOS or windows 11.

This feels very much like its written by somebody who hasn't used Linux as a desktop OS and is an unneeded back-handed comment that does the rest of your otherwise reasonable comment, a dis-service.

[pjmlp]

Those of us that care about 100% of laptop features are mostly using macOS, Windows, or eventually ChromeOS, with our Desktop Linux VMs (VMWare, Virtual Box, Virtualization framework, WSL, Crostini).

Even if buying from Tuxedo or System76, there is some footnote on some features that might not exactly work out.

Now if Desktop Linux is a traditional deskto/tower PC, or something like a Raspeberry kind of devices, then yeah probably everything works, including YouTube hardware video decoding and such.

Using GNU/Linux distributions since 1995.

[soulbadguy]

> eventually ChromeOS

I actually forgot about this. have you used chromeos for anything else than just a frontend/terminal ?

[pjmlp]

No, I don't see the value when there are better laptops.

[soulbadguy]

And yet i have used Ubuntu for the last 12 years, 6 of which as my main driver. Even as we speak i still have ubuntu on my laptop (my desktop is running windows , with some vmware instance of unbutu).

But as i get older, and have more responsibilities. I have less and less time for tinkering and need to have something reliable without fuss. I can't count the number of friends like me who were die hard linux fan who progressively moved to MacOs (better hardware helps, but also better app ecosystem) just for practical reasons.

But in many ways , your comment is a reflection of what i was trying to articulate. Any criticism of linux/desktop (and note here that i am only criticizing the desktop experience. The server side and command line are second to none) is always frame as a problem of the user... either you are using wrong, or you don't know what good, or things work on my machine must be a you problem...