Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018)
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Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018)
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Re: Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018)
#2Terrible article.
Bad things done by Nvidia is Linux problem? Adobe stopped developing flash for Linux is also Linux problem? Linux is "a lot less" secure than windows because updates are not forced like in windows? I can't this person seriously.
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#3All this is true, but not really fair. Count up the issue raised by the OP, and Nvidia really has the most power to stabilize the linux desktop. I read that gamers who want peak performance on Linux can get the proprietary Nvidia drivers running well. So it's possible, but it will never be without the friction of open source running along side signed proprietary binaries.
What I would love to know is why linux isn't equal or superior to Apple and Msft in power management.
Re: Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018)
#4Well, a big problem here might be engineering thinking, as opposed to design thinking.
If you view the problem as, "I have to enumerate all the [Linux on Desktop] problems, and if I enumerate enough problems and fix all the ones I enumerated in the right order, then I've solved [Linux on Desktop]," then "Main Linux problems on the desktop" is, by virtue of having done exactly that, and not being the first or last iteration of that, part of the problem!
Not that I begrudge Linus Torvalds for saying things sort of like, Linux is evolved, not designed. It just shows that one of the big holes it has is its use on the desktop, and the major Linux designed product (Android) isn't really libre, and that Linus is a brilliant guy but he doesn't have answers to everything nor claims to.
Meanwhile take a look at elementaryOS, which I think has a lot of opinions you'd never find in an evolved or engineering-rational platform (like their own UI programming language). I think if they had the resources of a giant corporation they could make a meaningful impact on the desktop market.
I'd say it's very similar to a debate I heard from head of an architecture school attached to a university better known for its engineering. "When we looked at expanding the campus, decisions were made in terms of parking spaces per square foot, and whichever had the most parking spaces per square foot is where we would build the building." It's not that he's going around arguing his ambitious and less efficient designs are better, just because he's coming in with qualitative or emotional impacts incalculable by an enumerative cost-benefit analysis.
He's just saying enumerating all the considerations, and then solving, is a really reductive way of thinking about things.
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#6_For instance Microsoft and Apple regularly update ntoskrnl.exe and mach_kernel respectively for security fixes, but it's unheard of that these updates ever compromised the boot process._
I had updates rendering my computer unbootable by messing up the MBR at least twice.
Re: Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018)
#7All this time spend creating this list could've been spent fixing at least one single little thing.
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#8All this is true, but not really fair. Count up the issue raised by the OP, and Nvidia really has the most power to stabilize the linux desktop. I read that gamers who want peak performance on Linux can get the proprietary Nvidia drivers running well. So it's possible, but it will never be without the friction of open source running along side signed proprietary binaries. What I would love to know is why linux isn't…
how can it every be superior to Apple when they control the whole thing from processors to OS through hardware (and most peripherals), impossible feat
Re: Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018)
#9How about a list of all the things that really work great?
I've been using Linux on the desktop for nearly 20 years and I'll have to say it's fantastic, despite the occasional headache, which seems to be at a far less frequency than other major desktop operating systems.
Re: Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018)
#10What I get out of this is that while each of these issues may be individually dismissed, they together make for a very "non-premium" experience.
I use linux myself, but when people I know try it out, they immediately leave after encountering problems with audio, dpi scaling, etc