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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!

  • 3abas@lemm.eeEnglish
    42·
    3 days ago

    That’s a bad take. Learning the bad habit of copy/pasting command and depending on the Internet to do the most basic changes to your computer is not a “feature” of the terminal. I can Google how to navigate Windows control center too.

    Setting search is a solved problem, you simply search for the setting name in the UI, it’s way easier than navigating terminal flags and switches.

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      3 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·
        3 days ago

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

        • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
          2·
          3 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.