> Next year, 2023, will be my thirtieth year of Linux on the desktop, and the thirtieth year of being told it’s not possible to use Linux on the desktop, or to only use Linux on the desktop. Some of the people telling me this weren’t born when I started using Linux on the desktop.
Says a hardcore Linux user. This is what happens when you shove the Linux Desktop to people like artists and the distro 'support' becomes EOL. [0] Thousands of complaints, headaches in updating the system software and if all else fails, migration hell.
Now in 2023, we are still telling users to "choose a distro for Desktop" and companies to 'define Linux Desktop support' for their GUI apps which they still cannot do and support all distros like many can with the latest supported versions of Windows or macOS. This is an eternal issue for the Linux Desktop.
At this point the best Linux Desktop is Windows with WSL2 and requires no reformatting, partitioning, migrating and reconfiguring dotfiles in window managers.
[0] https://drive.google.com/file/d/15b-4GMTSEE9tyqeQdBfy_LZnxQI...
Says a hardcore Linux user. This is what happens when you shove the Linux Desktop to people like artists and the distro 'support' becomes EOL. [0] Thousands of complaints, headaches in updating the system software and if all else fails, migration hell.
Now in 2023, we are still telling users to "choose a distro for Desktop" and companies to 'define Linux Desktop support' for their GUI apps which they still cannot do and support all distros like many can with the latest supported versions of Windows or macOS. This is an eternal issue for the Linux Desktop.
At this point the best Linux Desktop is Windows with WSL2 and requires no reformatting, partitioning, migrating and reconfiguring dotfiles in window managers.
[0] https://drive.google.com/file/d/15b-4GMTSEE9tyqeQdBfy_LZnxQI...