Re:Why hasn’t the Year of the Linux Desktop happened yet?
by antisthenes on Friday December 22, 2017 @02:18PM
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> because you can just put the right command into your login scripts, and you know that it'll execute, and never get deleted because a desktop environment decided to change its config file format.
You just lost 99% of the userbase.
Re:Why hasn’t the Year of the Linux Desktop happened yet?
by menacingly on Friday December 22, 2017 @09:47AM
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I use synclient at login now, but your paragraph about it alone has a few great reasons why a civilian might be turned off by linux on the desktop.
Since both are Debian derivatives, I imagine that both include synclient(1). No, it's not a GUI — but that's better, because you can just put the right command into your login scripts, and you know that it'll execute, and never get deleted because a desktop environment decided to change its config file format.
> Want a really good, free git GUI client? Sorry, not on Linux.
Magit is awesome.
> Sad to say but Windows, for all its faults, does work.
I have a couple of Windows machines, and I don't feel that they work. Swallowed keystrokes & clicks, ads — no thank you!