Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition

Re:Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition by ryao on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @11:55AM (#42559933)

Then you acknowledge that what you said earlier was untrue.

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Re:Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition by itvision on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @12:28PM (#42560214)

> Then you acknowledge that what you said earlier was untrue.

Where did I?

Or something that's available to 0.0001% of its users has become an OS "feature"?

Who are you kidding, man? What else, you gonna claim Linux is "fine" because people can write assembler code for it? It can even run on your PC?

That's not what a desktop OS is about. That's not how it's used.

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Re:Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition by ryao on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @01:56PM (#42560890)

In reference to running old software, you said:

  > In Linux nothing even close is possible.

Now you say it is possible, but are fabricating figures for how many people can do it. Thus, you acknowledge what you said was untrue. Both things cannot be true simultaneously.

This is a feature of Linux. Linus Torvalds is very adamant about supporting old binaries with new kernels, even if it is not commonly done.

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