Using the Mac in 1994 was a revelation I could work all day and never need the command line. The UI had to be good because there was no plan B.
With Linux is is the other way around except the desktop is Plan Z.
So many Linux enthusiasts practice cult thought-stopping, ‘Linux is free software, thus good. Windows is not free, thus bad.’
People with that mentality are going to be blind to the many big and small wrong things with the Linux desktop. If they can’t see them, if they just make excuses, they won’t fix them.
Thus Windows gets a little better each year and Linux stagnates, even slides backwards. The Linux command line is great so many of us use Linux that way and are satisfied, and we can live with a broken desktop so we don’t need to confront the brokenness.
For me the Linux desktop is beneath contempt, if I want to install software I type
apt-get install whatever
Which is orders of magnitude easier than installing software on Linux or MacOS (really! Get over any fixed ideas of cli vs gui and count muscle motions and the number of thoughts, decisions and waiting it takes.). Try to do what it trivial with the CLI with the GUI and it is a battle at best. Nobody sees it as essential, for instance, that there is enough space for labels to fit. It’s quite likely the GUI package manager is busted and even if it does work it will probably hang up for a while and give no feedback about why it is hanging up.
With Linux is is the other way around except the desktop is Plan Z.
So many Linux enthusiasts practice cult thought-stopping, ‘Linux is free software, thus good. Windows is not free, thus bad.’
People with that mentality are going to be blind to the many big and small wrong things with the Linux desktop. If they can’t see them, if they just make excuses, they won’t fix them.
Thus Windows gets a little better each year and Linux stagnates, even slides backwards. The Linux command line is great so many of us use Linux that way and are satisfied, and we can live with a broken desktop so we don’t need to confront the brokenness.
For me the Linux desktop is beneath contempt, if I want to install software I type
Which is orders of magnitude easier than installing software on Linux or MacOS (really! Get over any fixed ideas of cli vs gui and count muscle motions and the number of thoughts, decisions and waiting it takes.). Try to do what it trivial with the CLI with the GUI and it is a battle at best. Nobody sees it as essential, for instance, that there is enough space for labels to fit. It’s quite likely the GUI package manager is busted and even if it does work it will probably hang up for a while and give no feedback about why it is hanging up.