Alright. Let's talk about the esr blogpost. Will Windows become a linux distro with an emulation layer over it? Personally, I wouldn't rule it out, but extrapolating that from a edge port for linux is a bit far fetched I think.
Alright. Let's talk about the esr blogpost. Will Windows become a linux distro with an emulation layer over it? Personally, I wouldn't rule it out, but extrapolating that from a edge port for linux is a bit far fetched I think.
I 100% agree. People get mad at me for saying this (even on this site for some reason) but the Linux desktop experience is pretty much objectively better than Windows. As soon as the last hold outs of proprietary software on Windows cave it's pretty much over. Of course the biggest reason that Windows continues to dominate is the fact that it comes pre-installed the vast majority of the time. This is why I think Lenovo offering laptops with Linux pre-installed could change the game, but we'll see.
Or you just end up with more stories like this.
Lmao I remember watching the dumb h3 video about this years ago. I don't understand what you're trying to say with this though, that article is literally from 2009. Linux operating systems have become a million times more usable...in the past decade.
Usable, if you are willing to use something new. Most people won't be.
I'd imagine that Ubuntu laptop came with OpenOffice or LibreOffice (if it even existed) preinstalled. And of course it could connect to the internet. But it didn't matter because she thought she needed Word and she thought she needed a disc to connect to the internet and wasn't willing to learn otherwise.
Sad but true. 98% of computer users don't know the difference beyond how the UIs look. My mom could check her email and Facebook on Ubuntu just as easily, but that didn't stop her from buying a new Mac Pro to replace her old computer.