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Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by pjmlp on Sunday November 29, 2020 @04:37PM (#25248316)
Finally given up on "Year of Desktop Linux"?
Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by otabdeveloper4 on Monday November 30, 2020 @04:26AM (#25252125)
I've been running desktop Linux for 20 years, but this isn't a hill I'm gonna die on. Kernel and userland developers treat Linux as a server OS first and foremost, and that's where the funding goes.
Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by the_af on Sunday November 29, 2020 @05:01PM (#25248494)
The year of Desktop Linux arrived for me about a decade ago. Now I work, game, watch movies, edit graphics and photos, all on Linux.

I like and want the powerful combination of the CLI and GUI applications.

Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by blub on Monday November 30, 2020 @04:09AM (#25252017)
The point of "Linux on the desktop" was not that it happens for you and the other commenter, but that Linux becomes mainstream. :) Never happened and unless something extraordinary occurs it likely never will. And Android doesn't count, obviously.
Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by the_af on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:49AM (#25253211)
True. But it also has the connotation that Linux is "not good enough" for the desktop, and this is false. Popularity has a lot of factors, sadly. A user-friendly Linux like Ubuntu is indeed "good enough" and has been so for years.
Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by pjmlp on Sunday November 29, 2020 @05:39PM (#25248749)
Finally met one of the happy 1% from Steam surveys.
Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by the_af on Sunday November 29, 2020 @06:45PM (#25249223)
Also GOG and Humble Bundle ;)

It's generally a joy to use Linux. In some cases (like HP LaserJet printers) even more painless than Windows and macOS!

Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by eitland on Sunday November 29, 2020 @06:06PM (#25248940)
Hi, here's another one :-)

Happy Linux user since 2004/5.

Everything else is painful in some way or another.