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Re:Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition by IgorPartola on Monday December 30, 2024 @11:09PM (#42556331)
So I am friends with a bunch of photographers. Some are proponents of open source. Others don’t care. But universally they would rather have a thing that just works and feels right than mess with Wine. You can do almost anything. When your paycheck depends on your software working your patience is likely to be shorter.

I say this as a person who is a huge fan of Linux/Unix on the desktop. I wish I still was able to run it as my daily workhorse like I did for a decade and a half (and that was before the distros actually got good at this). You can make it work. But an average user isn’t interested because there are only downsides and little benefit.

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Re:Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition by ryao on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @12:28AM (#42556650)
They would probably be better served by MacOS.
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Re:Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition by ghaff on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @11:45AM (#42559858)
It sounds like you're violently agreeing with the parent.

I worked for an open source company for over a decade. But, although things improved over time, within about a week of joining I went out and bought a MacBook to use (for the first time) because it was more politically acceptable than Windows but I didn't want to deal with either a locked-down corporate Linux distro or an unsupported free Linux.

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Re:Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition by ryao on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @11:53PM (#42564051)
My neighbor is a photographer. He uses photoshop on MacOS. It works for him. Until Adobe ports Photoshop to Linux, the “must have Photoshop with no issues whatsoever” demographic is better served by MacOS.
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Re:Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition by ghaff on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @12:38AM (#42564196)
Yeah. I was hired to do a job and didn't want something that would really piss people off (Windows). But Macs were increasingly acceptable and that seemed a comfortable middle ground at the time. (And became increasingly so over time and I really grew to like a lot.)
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