I worked at Microsoft in the early 2000 era. before Xbox. I did the top level os consumer support stuff. not for corporate but for the general public that uses the os support channel. one day I was in a discussion group and we talked about what you think about the future kinda thing. it was supposed to be a relaxed discussion but once I brought up Linux and older hardware, I felt the temperature changed. it was later explained that I was black listed for my argument because it expressed that flaws in Windows and the potential of Linux. Years later I joked with a friend who still had an MS job, that putting the Linux subsystem in Windows was admitting I was right back then… this new Xbox coming out in competition to the steam system just makes me feel so justified. Microsoft will always be a second best because they can’t break the internal mindset that they are the top

Um…when it comes to desktop OS’s, they ARE the top, and always have been.

And even if you remove windows entirely, Apple becomes number one. Not Linux.

Last I checked, the highest Linux as a desktop usershare ever got was something pathetically small like 5%

And the reason for this is Linux developers design their OS as if the user knows what they’re doing.

Windows designs their OS as if the user is clueless.

So users who know how to use their computer, use Linux. And idiots use Windows. Well it turns out the world is full of idiots.

I tried explaining how to install a program in terminal to someone who’s never touched linux.

“sudo apt install program”

And her response was “ooooh, no no no no no! That’s too much for all that! Ain’t nobody got time fo’ all dat!”

I have no idea which OS she’s using these days. Haven’t talked to her in years.

But if I had to bet my life savings, I’d bet she’s still never touched Linux.

I’ve said it a million times. The year of linux will come 5 years AFTER a distro is released which not only holds the users hand, but handcuffs it. Does EVERYTHING for the user, so the user never ever ever ever has to even know how to do anything. Update a driver? They don’t even know how to do it in windows! You think they’re going to try their hand at updating kernals and such in Linux?

Windows absolutely does not design their UI as if the user is clueless

It is more userfriendly, than most linux desktop environments…

But they got 2 settings menus, and several others hidden away. Sometimes the crashes without any explanation or obscure non userfriendly error codes

Games are sometimes installed where you decide

Other times its in APPDATA which for some reason is a hidden folder… why!?

Its full of old legacy code incl legacy programs and so on. Useless bloat.

My mother asked me about finding files on her computer yesterday. Word documents. She has been working an office , on windows for like 30 years… but now word uses the cloud.

Anyways

My biggest problem with linux is a lot of programs are just “installed” and who the fuck knows where

And a lot of programs save data into some folder… who the fuck knows where

So many hidden folders with obscure or meaningless names. What does more letters cost? Make it easier for the user… nobody knows what’s in folders named:

Etc

Local (all folders are local ffs)

Lib64

Run

Srv

Lib

Opt

Sbin

Var

They probably make sense for some linux kernel developers but my software utilize some of these and IMO the names should make sense for everyone, seeing as MY files are in some of them