Re:What Dropbox dropping Linux support says
by magicalhippo on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @11:38AM
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> I understand the desktop market, but I don't understand why a Linux distribution hasn't taken hold on the desktop market.
Because there's about 600 million distributions wasting energy competing. They waste energy on solving the same problems in slightly different ways, rather than working together to solve new problems.
As a user I don't _really_ care about window managers, package managers, KDE vs Gnome, or systemd vs whatever. I want my desktop to enable me to perform the tasks I want to do.
I do for example care that there's no decent remote desktop support on Linux. That's one of the primary reasons I still run a Windows desktop on my main machine.
Re:What Dropbox dropping Linux support says
by Zardoz84 on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @07:47PM
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Pardon ? Remote desktop was far better on Linux that any Windows solution. You ever try NX ? It was really amazing! Even it was working very soft, running across a poor ADSL internet connection!
Because there's about 600 million distributions wasting energy competing. They waste energy on solving the same problems in slightly different ways, rather than working together to solve new problems.
As a user I don't _really_ care about window managers, package managers, KDE vs Gnome, or systemd vs whatever. I want my desktop to enable me to perform the tasks I want to do.
I do for example care that there's no decent remote desktop support on Linux. That's one of the primary reasons I still run a Windows desktop on my main machine.