I use Linux every day for work but could never use it as a Windows replacement at home because everything is just a little extra work and it all adds up to absolutely kill any state of flow or relaxation I might be looking for.
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A lot is just familiarity. I switched to Linux from Windows 20 years ago and I now find Windows to be an unholy confusing mess where everything is a lot more work!
I like the state of flow and relaxation too I get in Linux!
That's not my experience at all. Unless someone needs a specific program that runs only on corpo-vaporware, Linux does better than just fine. If you're coding, Linux is vastly superior. Lots of choices.
Not my bailiwick. Any dev I'm doing usually is PLC related or routines you'd find written in C or Python.
As for daily driver, LM is actually great to get out on the net and poke around, or do banking etc, is easily made fairly secure, and is not chock full of bloatware, so great for my old-folks.
That’s interesting, what would you say it’s lacking? Im a software guy so i might be blind here, but my understanding of most people’s daily computing tasks are that they A) use the internet and B) use some sort of word processing. What else are 95% of people doing that Linux doesn’t support?
I think it's a combination of factors - at this point your most casual users just use their phone or tablet. Anyone above that probably enjoys some platform specific feature.
Most people need clear, singular directions to follow and very few decisions to make. The biggest problem is there is no Linux OS. There's a million of them and daily drivers don't know the difference and don't want to learn the difference. They want to buy a PC that works and updates itself
My theory is: if you only ever do things you could do on a chrome book, Linux is fine. If you do advanced poweruser stuff then Linux is also fine. If you're somewhere in the middle, Windows is the best bet. And if you REALLY like Adobe suite, get macOS
I've been a daily driver for 20+. My aging parents are on W10, and have to have a maintenance service keep their machine in order (I won't do it). I don't have to do much at all other than just run it. I'm switching them to LM sometime in the next few weeks. They don't use any MS-Vaporware.
At work it's fantastic for raw performance and tool building, but even there we have certain things that don't run/run poorly on Linux and so we have to also have windows machine on standby and that's fine in a workplace but at home definitely not.
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I like the state of flow and relaxation too I get in Linux!
hell, even in your example, you cant do iOS dev outside of macOS
As for daily driver, LM is actually great to get out on the net and poke around, or do banking etc, is easily made fairly secure, and is not chock full of bloatware, so great for my old-folks.
That's just not what makes a good daily driver though in my opinion.