It goes back to what I said earlier, that yes you can do what you need to if you’re willing to put in the effort. But I don’t want to have to build a hammer every time I need to drive in a nail, even if I know how to build that hammer. I want to grab an already working hammer from my toolbox.
I think its no accident that the majority of desktop Linux users are software devs. Using Linux at home in a way serves as job credentials, because you have to be intimately familiar with the OS in a way that Windows and (especially) Mac users don’t have to be just to get by.
My latest (and so far longest) streak of daily driving Linux was with Mint. The bluetooth worked perfectly out of the box for the first time… and then never again. My headphones would simply never pair, and my Wacom tablet and xbox controller would constantly connect and disconnect, causing popups every time it did, and no amount of terminal magic seemed to solve the problem. Of course that’s not what pushed me back to Windows, as always that honor goes to the lack of a usable screen reader and magnifier.
Linux works great as a server precisely because you’re supposed to know what you’re doing, but a consumer-facing OS is supposed to be fool proof.
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It goes back to what I said earlier, that yes you can do what you need to if you’re willing to put in the effort. But I don’t want to have to build a hammer every time I need to drive in a nail, even if I know how to build that hammer. I want to grab an already working hammer from my toolbox.
I think its no accident that the majority of desktop Linux users are software devs. Using Linux at home in a way serves as job credentials, because you have to be intimately familiar with the OS in a way that Windows and (especially) Mac users don’t have to be just to get by.
My latest (and so far longest) streak of daily driving Linux was with Mint. The bluetooth worked perfectly out of the box for the first time… and then never again. My headphones would simply never pair, and my Wacom tablet and xbox controller would constantly connect and disconnect, causing popups every time it did, and no amount of terminal magic seemed to solve the problem. Of course that’s not what pushed me back to Windows, as always that honor goes to the lack of a usable screen reader and magnifier.
Linux works great as a server precisely because you’re supposed to know what you’re doing, but a consumer-facing OS is supposed to be fool proof.