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Here's why Linux market share isn't going to skyrocket anytime soon (thelibre.news)

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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!

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You don't, it's just more convenient.

If you have the time to commit thousands of commands to memory, I'm sure it is. Most of us are just trying to get shit done.

according to the windows people, it's the same thing there

It is very much not. I used Windows for 30 years and never touched the terminal.

Look up "how to do x on Windows/Mac" and you'll get "click here, click there".

Look up "how to do x on Linux" and you'll get fed a bunch of random letters to type into a literal black box, at which point you get returned a generic error and have to go back to the drawing board over and over for hours.

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Idk dude, depends what you want to do. If you want to SSH, sure, use the terminal. RDP apps work for me. My gnome de has decent menus for pretty much everything, except sound. I'll admit that was weird. Turns out though, you can install a gui though so not an issue. Haven't found a thing I want to do that didn't have a gui yet. Been using it on every pc I own for about 3 years now.