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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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[–] 3abas@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.today 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.ee 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 3abas@lemm.ee 1 points 5 minutes ago

Are you suggesting users with no programming experience can simply add the flags they need to a terminal application but would be unable to do the same with a GUI because the GUI is the barrier? Not the logic and that the program will do with the flag, but the GUI is the barrier?

What are you saying?