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> 100% OSS Tell that to your BIOS or the firmware that runs on your WLAN or NVMe. Hell, tell that to the CPU itself[^1]. [^1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
The parent is talking about the operating system, not all software running on the machine.
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Things that I’ve paid money for that I would sorely miss moving from macOS to Linux: - MoneyWell - Omnigraffle - Keynote (I like my glossy presentations) I know I’m missing a few. I love and monetarily support free software, but man… some of these apps get a lot of love and it’d be hard to leave.
Isn’t keynote “free” (as in beer is included with your macOS meal)?
I believe there was also a time period where it was given to users who activated a new Apple product, but for people still running older machines had to pay.
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ok maybe i'm a sore loser, but looking at where the popular desktop OSes have been going going i think i'm fine with linux remaining an enthusiast thing
Exactly my thoughts. I think Linux is in a good sweet spot; popular enough so that applications advertise support for Linux, but not popular enough to be spoiled and optimized for the "casual" user.
I wonder why they keep making these articles. Linux is on more computers both today and all of the computers ever made put together than any other OS. It is on virtually all servers on the Internet, the majority OS on phones, its in many TVs and STBs and streaming sticks, its one of the few OSes ever in space, its one of the few OSes ever on Mars, and it is also the OS behind ChromeOS (which that article mistakenly b…
It's interesting to see how over the years the user experience of Linux Desktop ia getting better, bug are being fixed, we get better software, desktop environments are getting more features e.g.
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True, but increasingly marginal. Many schools have adopted Chromebooks (Linux in disguise) and even the MS Office suite has largely moved online.
A lot of people are stuck on Windows or MacOS because of one killer app - Photoshop, a CAD/CAM package, a video or audio editor, or some proprietary bit of business software. Many of these applications have tens or hundreds of millions of dollars worth of dev time invested in them and it just isn't realistic to expect an open source alternative to compete. I'm in that boat, but I don't especially mind. I run Windows…
The big question is IMHO why. Are people fleeing the Windows as Ad Space direction? Are they fed up with Mac OS oddities? Do they use their Steam deck more? Or are they just enjoying the Linux experience.... I know that after years of Linux usage I can't stand Windows in-your-face Ads and "use our accounts". And I can't stand the locked down Apple ecosystem either. But what drives others? Are there any good sources o…
For programmer / power user, I guess linux desktop is now in good state, for programming I find very minimum difficulty on using Ubuntu. It is now a viable choice beside mac and windows.
Furthermore with steam proton and lutris we can play many games with linux which was impossible. The programming device and gaming device now can use single Linux os
I'm kinda surprised this entirely forgot to mention the SteamDeck. I'd love to know how much of an impact that had, considering apparently 3 million units have been sold (according to Valve). Alas, how many of those users know they are running Linux is another question.
> While someone may seem the figure modest, it signifies a growing acceptance and recognition of the power and versatility of Linux. Does it? It’s 3%. If it was 15% or 20% maybe you could say that. It’s less than “unknown” and less than ChromeOS which is just over 4%. If it wasn’t a round number, I don’t think anyone would ever write this article because the number is just too small. It’s nice that it seems to be gro…
Who uses ChromeOS ? Here in EU I haven't seen or heard anyone using this.
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What about distributing via Flatpak? (honest question, I'm curious to see if it actually help lowering the cost of distributing apps for Linux)
dunno but for example you got more than one audio stack on linux so they should at least test both, with different hardwares, etc. Not sure flatpak would help here...
Regarding audio, if you decide to target several audio stack yes indeed. I hope this get eliminated by Pipewire really soon. It's already the case as a end user (Pipewire replaces Pulseaudio, Jack and the userland part of Alsa) but I don't know if all use cases are covered yet. If I'm not mistaken Pipewire started from the need to be able sandbox multimedia streams in Flatpak , so I guess Flatpak might be indirectly helping here :)
Regarding hardware it's the same problem for any operating system though, testing with all hardware can be tricky for a small company.
MacOS has so many annoying things which drive me nuts; like it doesn't show the full path in finder (and can't easily manipulate it), deleting files feels like a hassle. I hate that screenshots go to my Desktop and I can't quickly tell it where to go. The experience overall feels restrictive, obscures what's really going on and prioritizes the wrong things. I already tweaked my settings to fix some of these things but it's still not as good as Kubuntu... The main positive thing I have to say about MacOS is it's better than Windows.