Linus highlights several pain points with regards to desktop Linux.From DebConf 14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmHRSeA2c80:00 Application distribution i...
IMO Linux’s biggest problem is choices. Normal people don’t really want choices, they just want the one, and it needs to work. The second you tell them there’s 17 different options, and each one has 9 sub options, and each sub option has 4 more sub sub options they just tune out. Got a problem? Google “Linux fix XYZ” and there’s 300 different fixes and maybe one of them works. Or maybe it doesn’t.
With windows there’s 1 or 2 windows. You get what Microsoft thinks is best. Don’t like it? Maybe someone’s made a tweak. But odds are too bad, suck it up. And then they move on with their life.
Well you’re right on, because that’s exactly the reason i haven’t tried linux yet, i have very little time for entertainment and i need to allocate my time to the thing i felt needed at the moment, between “trying to research and install linux and try out a few and troubleshoot when stuff came out” and “play game”, i always pick the latter.
IMO Linux’s biggest problem is choices. Normal people don’t really want choices, they just want the one, and it needs to work. The second you tell them there’s 17 different options, and each one has 9 sub options, and each sub option has 4 more sub sub options they just tune out. Got a problem? Google “Linux fix XYZ” and there’s 300 different fixes and maybe one of them works. Or maybe it doesn’t.
With windows there’s 1 or 2 windows. You get what Microsoft thinks is best. Don’t like it? Maybe someone’s made a tweak. But odds are too bad, suck it up. And then they move on with their life.
Well you’re right on, because that’s exactly the reason i haven’t tried linux yet, i have very little time for entertainment and i need to allocate my time to the thing i felt needed at the moment, between “trying to research and install linux and try out a few and troubleshoot when stuff came out” and “play game”, i always pick the latter.