It’s finally the year of the Linux Desktop! And all it took was an apocalypse, the rise of the fourth reich, (soon to be) two global recessions, and continuing unprecedented damage to the world order / faith in international law.
Oh, and Windows actively trying its absolute hardest to make everyone hate it for about a decade.
all it took was an apocalypse, the rise of the fourth reich, (soon to be) two global recessions, and continuing unprecedented damage to the world order / faith in international law.
Absolutely wild brand activation tactics from the Linux marketing team.
that’s not a joke lol. governments and businesses actually think like that. Whom are they gonna sue if, for example, CachyOS borks something? Since it being a community developed distro, it doesn’t provide dedicated 24x7 tech support or would quickly patch something because some business’s application stopped working on that distro.
Nah, Windows XP and 7 get a pass. These were solid consumer OS’s.
You go back 30 years and you’re at Windows 95 (holy shit) and the beginning of massive home PC adoption.
I don’t feel they got hostile towards users until probably midway through Windows 10 lifecycle. The first half wasn’t that bad, aside from changing up 20+ years of muscle-memory…but Gnome did that, too.
It’s finally the year of the Linux Desktop! And all it took was an apocalypse, the rise of the fourth reich, (soon to be) two global recessions, and continuing unprecedented damage to the world order / faith in international law.
Oh, and Windows actively trying its absolute hardest to make everyone hate it for about a decade.
But hey,… progess! The more penguins, the better.
Absolutely wild brand activation tactics from the Linux marketing team.
I fucking hate that so many of them are going to Ubuntu berceuse of course they are
Having someone to complain to/point fingers at/sue is incredibly important in the business world, and a big part of why M$ is so big.
In fact, just having support is a big thing. Look at how shitty M$ support is. Or Cisco, for that matter.
Not to mention a steady, predictable, accountable release cadence.
If you want that, in the Linux world, it’s basically Ubuntu/Canonical, RedHat/IBM, or Oracle/Oracle.
I’d call Canonical the lessest of 3 evils here…
Well they want “official” tech support from a company which they can hold accountable for any problems.
you forgot the /s
that’s not a joke lol. governments and businesses actually think like that. Whom are they gonna sue if, for example, CachyOS borks something? Since it being a community developed distro, it doesn’t provide dedicated 24x7 tech support or would quickly patch something because some business’s application stopped working on that distro.
“oops sorry we switched back to manual approval mode because our invincible foolproof package management system pushed out malware again”
Well, yes.
Also, Proton
Linux’s message to the world: “The I-Told-You-So’s Shall Continue Until Installation Rates Improve.”
we brought this upon ourselves by failing to listen to the FOSS gods.
You’re off by about thirty years.
Nah, Windows XP and 7 get a pass. These were solid consumer OS’s.
You go back 30 years and you’re at Windows 95 (holy shit) and the beginning of massive home PC adoption.
I don’t feel they got hostile towards users until probably midway through Windows 10 lifecycle. The first half wasn’t that bad, aside from changing up 20+ years of muscle-memory…but Gnome did that, too.
Apocalypse?
Covid. I’m being slightly hyperbolic.
There are 7 million people who would agree with you, if they could.
Ah
A decade? I had a Windows ME upgrade disc - M$ has been at this for a long time.
I had DOS 6.2 which blatantly stole stuff from Stacker, and Windows 3 which explicitly had code to make it seem like competitor DR DOS was unstable.