The vast majority of consumer boxes run Windows because of Microsoft's
bundling deal with the manufacturers. It's nothing really to do with
Windows performance or ease of use (both of which are poor). It's just
that Mr./Ms. Everyday User doesn't really know much about computers,
plugs the box in, and just uses what's presented to him/her.
"Just works" is a fantasy. There's plenty of Windows programs which
don't "just work" -- I spend my days bouncing from one Windows box to
another, trying to iron out small bugs or teach panicky users simple
tasks. Most people can't set up a wireless router or configure a
wireless printer, so Linux is a planet away. Linux-based distributions
are still heavily reliant on the cli, and must remain so. We shouldn't
give up the robustness of bash work so that linux desktop environments
may mimic a dysfunctional proprietary OS.
Jordan
On 10/05/2016 08:59 AM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
Moreover, I think that Linux has come a long way and gained much
maturity on the server and enterprise side, thanks to parallel efforts
of "Canonical" and "RedHat" (and "Google").
The sector which Linux has long way to go is Desktop / Laptop and
daily computing. Why do you think people prefer to use Windows or
MacOS? That's what needs to be improved in Linux. Standardized things,
at least for a distro. Lots of customization available, but it should
work out of the box. My dad would not like to go in depth about
synaptic and libinput stuff, or the free/proprietary stuff. Things
need to work like a charm, at least to the maximum extent we can provide.
On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 6:23 PM Himanshu Shekhar
<himanshushekhar...@gmail.com <mailto:himanshushekhar...@gmail.com>>
wrote:
I appreciate Xen's first response stating how things go on in
Windows and Apple.
I know that snaps and containers are very different things and
function differently.
I was less concerned about snaps coming to Ubuntu, than two
standards, namely Snaps and Flatpak coming to Linux.
Both are good in their intentions but they would again lead to
confusion, they way we have today.
Snaps/Flatpaks are intended to make applications
distro-independent and unify Linux development. However, two
things for the same task would again cause confusion about which
to use / what will become the de-facto standard.
**REPEAT** This reminds me of the state of Upstart, which after
much development was replaced by systemd **REPEAT**
I repeat that my concerns are Snaps/Flatpak and Wayland/Mir, not
which of them is better. (I didn't start this thread to debate
which is better).
It is true that XServer is old and desktop/GUI computing has come
a long way than the client-server model.
I was eager to know how they are different, and how things in
future are planned to be, as the current state of development
branches in Linux make me feel like the chaotic scenario between
distributions, packaging and graphics server would continue for long.
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Himanshu Shekhar
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Himanshu Shekhar
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