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0 points0thgen3y ago0 comments

maybe it's a personal workflow thing, because I've had the opposite experience

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gumboza3y ago· 2 in thread

I think the thing is it's just the full picture is not good enough.

I mean I'm sitting there earlier having a shit and I shout at my watch to add some more toilet paper to the shopping list. This is now on all my devices including the one I take shopping. If this was on Linux I'd have to crawl back to my desktop, write it on that, then export it when I went shopping. Everything is just that much more difficult and disjointed.

The whole experience leaves me somewhere around 2008. I can't find any real advantages over my gnome2 desktop in 2008. It stopped being usable then for me.

Linux has become what its good at, which is a container target and server platform. As a desktop it hasn't even caught up with the 2010's yet...

revertmean3y ago

I, personally, think that the FOSS movement should cede the ground to Apple on the "I'm having a shit and shouting at a device" market.

I genuinely think they're better suited to it.

gumboza3y ago

The thing is that sort of stuff is what builds market share and keeps it. Once you have the tools that allow you to do that level of integration then they become leverage to stay on a platform. Without it, retaining users is difficult.

Linux on the desktop failed to retain me because of feature stagnation (and reliability issues which are quite frankly not there on other platforms)

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