[cloudsec9]

At one time I was a big advocate for Unix/Linux on the desktop, but I think that ship has mostly sailed.

But, it seems that FUD about what it is capable of is still actively here, which is good to know. With frameworks and libraries, there is a 0% chance you don't have SOME update for your Windows app in a couple years, forget 5.

Now, there are lots of headwinds against Linux -- Windows is a known quantity, everyone knows the MS Office suite, people hate change and don't want to learn new stuff.

But to pretend that Linux is a house of cards because there are sometimes issues that cause troubles is not being honest. Even Windows can have big issues, or have we forgotten the CrowdStrike outage earlier this year?

All OSes have always had issues; that's why all of them have patches and updates.

[ryao]

I would blame Microsoft for that one, since they had the ability to ban crowdstrike and others who have no business being in the NT kernel from the NT kernel, but instead gave them access by giving them code signing certificates.

Apple on the other hand got them to switch to userspace:

https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/crowdstrike-supports-...

[ghaff]

>everyone knows the MS Office suite

How many people are running a locally-installed office suite at this point? Mailing files around seems archaic for most purposes. At my prior (open source) employer, even we had mostly given up on running local office productivity apps.