Two main points:

  • no one unified distro to keep things simple (thread OP)

VS

  • people don’t care. Someone else needs to advocate, sell, migrate, and support (medium term) Linux (whichever distro they want) for the intermediate term (few months at least) - thread response).

I think a lot of the 97% desktop market share is like this, instead of the hands on 2-3%.

  • dino@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    This. People don’t understand that linux doesn’t want to replace your OS. The motivation needs to be intrinsic and therefore there will never be a widespread of linux users because 90% of all people “don’t care” about their OS. They want to turn on their computer and use any browser to surf the net or check their emails.

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      1 year ago

      I used to argue about this from the position of “wider adoption means more support and a richer ecosystem”, until I eventually realised that it would include more predators.

      I’ll need to make the time to contribute to it myself instead. If I want free software, I should provide free contributions too.