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Here's why Linux market share isn't going to skyrocket anytime soon (thelibre.news)

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You've heard the "prophecy": next year is going to be the year of the Linux desktop, right? Linux is no longer the niche hobby of bearded sysadmins and free software evangelists that it was a decade ago! Modern distributions like Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, and Linux Mint are sleek, accessible, and — dare I say it — mainstream-adjacent.

Linux is ready for professional work, including video editing, and it even manages to maintain a slight market share advantage over macOS among gamers, according to the Steam Hardware & Software Survey.

However, it's not ready to dethrone Windows. At least, not yet!

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[–] Matth78@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago (19 children)

IMHO as long as linux don't have a full UI for main settings it will be difficult for it to impose himself.
I know a lot of people will say that now you don't need the terminal but actually you do!
I am using Fedora with KDE and for instance it offers no GUI to easily create and manage user groups. You want to look at your service, stop them, start them, schedule a task... It's all with terminal ! And I am sure there is plenty of other examples.

Don't take me wrong, I am still a Linux user! But I would appreciate not having to look/check online to change some basic things once in a while! 😉

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I know I have used a gui on linux for users and groups. I find it hard to believe there is not longer a gui interface. same with starting and stopping services. I just went to the system monitor now and there is an option to kill processes on my laptop and my settings has a gui for adding and removing users. It does not have groups but im not running a distro meant for the enterprise.

[–] Spaniard@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably you used yast on opensuse.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

we did use suse a lot at that time but we did go redhat for some reason but more workstations and clusters I think. It was long ago.

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