For mac instal Singlebox1/26/2024 ![]() ![]() Sometimes over a few different distributions. They start with kernel, add package management, decide which services to run, which toolkit to use and then make some utility applications. In my opinion most of the distributions are starting from the wrong end. It’s just too bad that Ubuntu can’t just break compat and blaze their own path here, or we would probably have a great Linux UX story already. A perfect example is Wayland: supposedly Wayland is a lot better than X11 for desktop purposes. However, Ubuntu has reached the point, IMO, where to provide better UX, they would need to start making Ubuntu actually incompatible with other Linux distros, or push the Linux community to adopt new standards that are better for desktop linux. Ubuntu has removed some of the fragmentation, since it’s so popular that you can just target Ubuntu and let your application fail on different configurations (or worse than failure - technically work, but require tons of tweaking in config files. And just think, that fragmentation happens at all the other levels too. That leads to fragmentation at the windowing system level. You have to choose between Qt and GTK and. On Linux, there is no default window API. If you deviate from the APIs it suggests, you’ll get nothing but pain. Want to make a desktop GUI app? XCode has a project template for you. On MacOS there is one way to do everything. I think there are things inherent to Linux that make it unable to ever reach the level of usability that MacOS provides. It is from this perspective, and because I know how hard it can be to do things that are outside of the default, that I say that the other big operating systems are better overall. Not just from my own perspective as someone who has largely accepted these problems, or from the perspective of a user that is excited about Linux until they aren't. Because people leave at a similar rate that they join.īy working in enterprise Linux I, involuntarily, get to see all this at different points in time. That is why we have the perpetual "year of the Linux desktop". Usually at that point they get disillusioned and switch to something else. Whether that is software conflicts, (lack of) backups, security or just maintenance in general. ![]() They will rave about Linux until reality catches up with them. clicking on random links and executing random code without apparent consequences. Your average user can be perfectly happy e.g. The same is essentially true for the rest of the the operating system. And you don't know what that percentage is until someone go looking. Security is essentially a percentage of how hard something is to discover and exploit. If you were to plot the security holes in the Linux kernel on a timeline you will most likely find that there is at least one the majority of the time. But people usually expect to be able to do more than that. If that is what you want you should probably go with Chrome OS. But that has been true for probably at least a decade and is true for any other mainstream operating system as well. If you want browse the web, do some development and stay within those confines it can work. Because that is a major selling point for them. And while its competitors aren't perfect either, they are just far more consistent. Everything in Linux is pretty much like that if you dig deep enough. One example that should challenge people view would be the ssh default story that is on the front page right now. ![]() I would like to elaborate, but I think it is pretty futile to do so online, which is pretty telling in itself. Anything else is going to be going in the direction of something like Android and even that isn't necessarily up to the standard of the alternatives. Ever wondered why Ubuntu doesn't really seem to be getting better, mostly just shifting technologies around? Well, that is because it essentially reached the level that desktop Linux is at. It certainly has qualities, but if you make a table with all the different things to expect from an operating system and you look into each section without being too subjective Linux will come last overall. Linux, desktop Linux especially, is the worst of the big operating systems. ![]() We essentially make distributions, build systems, customized kernels etc. ![]()
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