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It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop

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Re: It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop

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Post by weberer »

>There are many reasons for this. Drivers. Games. Adobe. Microsoft Office. Battery life. The thing where you close the lid of a laptop and open it again later to find that it passed into the good night.

The last one is a huge problem for Windows as well. Its due to Microsoft discontinuing support for S3 sleep mode, which in turn, caused motherboard manufacturers to discontinue S3 support in the BIOS. Which means its no longer available even if you install Linux on the laptop since it requires firmware support to work. You can still find laptops that support S3 sleep if you really look hard enough. Or buy a Mac.

Re: It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop

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Post by BrokenCogs »

Agree with OP. Not because of the accessibility API argument but because of the "small things" like Microsoft office, drivers, the sound not working out of speakers but working with headphones. These small problems have gone unfixed for years, or have become worse, and is the main reason why a non tech person won't transition to Linux.

Re: It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop

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Post by phendrenad2 »

...I wasn't expecting the argument to be that Linux interoperates poorly with AI Agents lol.

I think the author is actually on the right track at first then dismisses it with: These are "why a person did not switch to Linux last" and not "why the desktop, as an institution, will continue to belong to Apple and Microsoft". You can absolutely get to the root cause of the former and find foundational issues that explain the latter.

Re: It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop

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Post by WolfeReader »

My first instinct was to just not open the article based on the headline. But I thought, "what if there's a good point that I, as a Linux user, should be aware of?"

It was worse than I imagined it would be. I now deeply regret giving this article a click.

Basically, it's all about how AI can use Mac OS features.

Re: It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop

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Post by zaik »

BrokenCogs wrote: post #32

Agree with OP. Not because of the accessibility API argument but because of the "small things" like Microsoft office, drivers, the sound not working out of speakers but working with headphones. These small problems have gone unfixed for years, or have become worse, and is the main reason why a non tech person won't transition to Linux.

Since AI is so smart now, these problems will surely be fixed in no time!
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