Let's get real!

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You’ve heard the “prophecy”: next year is going to be the year of the Linux desktop, right? Linux is no longer the niche hobby of bearded sysadmins and free software evangelists that it was a decade ago! Modern distributions like Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, and Linux Mint are sleek, accessible, and — dare I say it — mainstream-adjacent.

Linux is ready for professional work, including video editing, and it even manages to maintain a slight market share advantage over macOS among gamers, according to the Steam Hardware & Software Survey.

However, it’s not ready to dethrone Windows. At least, not yet!

  • RivalarrivalEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Setting search is a solved problem, you simply search for the setting name in the UI,

    This assumes the developer bothered to make that setting available through the UI.

    With the terminal, that isn’t a problem: You’re using the same UI as the developer.

    • 3abas@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      That assumes the programmer bothered to make user friendly flags… The terminal doesn’t magically just work.

      • RivalarrivalEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        With open source, the delineation between “user” and “programmer” is arbitrary and capricious. The GUI-centric Windows approach reinforces that artificial distinction; the terminal breaches that barrier.