Eddie Paul Litz
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What is the current popularity of Linux compared to Windows?
do you use google or duckduckgo ?
You have been a member here since May, 2018
By now you will know how to go about conducting a search.
Who cares, it's not like it's a race. I assume you're talking desktop?
Google is your friend?
this is trend Windows Uk
see imageHow is that trend in terms of the rest of the world?
I've been using Linux for around 25 years. Over the years I've installed Linux on the desktop probably more times than most people (definitely not all) and I will be blunt here. For general everyday uses for my needs. Linux never surpassed Windows in usability across the board for me.
Around 2016, I finally gave up on trying to use Linux on the desktop. That isn't to say that I couldn't use Linux on the desktop. I most certainly can. It is usable, but there are areas of my everyday life that it takes "work making it work" or it completely fails to work at all in a few cases.
Actually, I quit installing Android early (beta) releases too because, today. I just don't have time to fight with broken software if it isn't absolutely necessary.
The biggest issue with Linux has always been the divided nature of "choice". It has created a massive amount of issues on the Linux sound system side, multiple different desktops, and several less than efficient ways to create a great stable desktop that is useful and as bug-free as possible for most usage requirements.
Please do not don't come at me to say, "Windows isn't bug-free either", I don't live in a box. I know this. The thing Windows has going for it is exactly what Linux on the desktop's problem is. It doesn't work universally across my daily life.
Linux on the server IMO cannot be beaten except in the world of Enterprise Domain management.. (maybe a few side cases) I built my almost 25 year Linux career on it and will continue to use it even after retirement because it is a solid and trusted tool for what I want to do.
I hope one day Linux on the desktop will solidify into a 100% usable all-the-time desktop for me, but that day has not yet arrived.
For those of you who do use Linux on the Desktop. I salute you. If it ever is to reach critical mass, it needs users to get there. Even more so, it needs you guys to push the developers to work together. Division and many options for basic requirements aren't helping. The developers need to focus on a common goal and plow all their efforts in achieving a single unified desktop system.
Dave
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Can you give a few examples of how GNU/Linux doesn't work for all your personal use cases as a desktop just out of interest to see how it differs from me?Around 2016, I finally gave up on trying to use Linux on the desktop. That isn't to say that I couldn't use Linux on the desktop. I most certainly can. It is usable, but there are areas of my everyday life that it takes "work making it work" or it completely fails to work at all in a few cases.
For those of you who do use Linux on the Desktop. I salute you. If it ever is to reach critical mass, it needs users to get there. Even more so, it needs you guys to push the developers to work together. Division and many options for basic requirements aren't helping. The developers need to focus on a common goal and plow all their efforts in achieving a single unified desktop system.
What's a cooperative LLC?My question for the community is this: What is so wrong with setting up a cooperative LLC where there's choices when it comes to operating systems?
I would say useage of Windows has dropped the most relative to its useage at the start . Android was nothing , then exponential increase then leveling out. Linux useage not as great as Windows; it hasn't flat-lined only leveled out . Where's a statistician when you need one -Rrrr just remembered @KGIII what does the graph say to you ?Linux is worst of all 3, and most-likely for a number of reasons