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by TheDong 157 days ago
> people who aren't programmers

> No good e-mail app, no good office apps, no good calendar app, no good invoicing app ...

People who aren't programmers use Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Stripe Invoicing, etc for those various use-cases.

Firefox and Chrome work just fine on Linux, so Linux has all the apps people actually use these days on computers.
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carlosjobim 157 days ago
The only people I meet who voluntarily use web apps in their day to day are Linux users who have convinced themselves that it is good enough because there aren't any good native apps on Linux.

And then you of course have corporate, who will not switch from Windows.

Nobody will voluntarily spend all day working within Gmail or Google docs.

You also conveniently cut out photo editing and design in your quote.

Edit: Also I wonder if all you server-admins, programmers and gamers would have switched to Linux if your only option was to do your work or gaming within a laggy and inadequate web-app? But you want other people to suffer that.

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sofixa 157 days ago
> The only people I meet who voluntarily use web apps in their day to day are Linux users who have convinced themselves that it is good enough because there aren't any good native apps on Linux.

Funny, there are whole companies, pretty big ones at that, that run entirely on the G Suite. Regardless of OS.

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carlosjobim 157 days ago
Yes, exactly. Note my word "voluntarily". When people have the option to decide for themselves which tools to use, very few actually want to work with corporate software like the G Suite, OneDrive, MS Office and such. I'll give an exception for Excel. I'm not a spread sheeter, but I've heard it's best in class.
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jamespo 157 days ago
I don't know if you've noticed, but Microsoft are moving apps to web versions as well.
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carlosjobim 157 days ago
And OS X has top tier native apps for any use case imaginable. With a very healthy ecosystem of boutique developers and indie developers.

If the idea is moving from Windows to something better, then Mac is usually the answer. Unless you're a server admin, programmer, or gamer. Then Linux is probably great. Everybody wants to have tools that work well for the task.

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