If redhat or some other company spends little energy on providing tech support for a distro targeted for consumer laptops, there is a huge opportunity to compete with Windows and Mac os. I used mac but I think they made it too simple to use for advanced users. I actually find it irritating to use.
Most engineers don't really mess around with the OS. If people are forced to use Linux laptops & everyone starts having custom configurations, the IT support teams will start going crazy. They will have to put a lot of restrictions in place.
Fair point.
I don't see the difference between a mac os custom config or playing with windows regedit. I think the only reason is that: windows -> you probably need some sw or hw support. Not for devs mac -> just a cool kid status symbol. Hating it
No, there is no opportunity. Consumers don’t pay for tech support and “advanced users” is an even smaller subset that won’t pay. MacOS is the defacto laptop Unix and it comes free with the hardware.
And the hardware comes free with two apple logo stickers
Consumers like to pay for the advanced apple keyboard, that touchbar...heck they would even pay for windows but not linux support. Ridiculous!
Linux desktop will kill mac/windows in few years (already happening with windows). Linux DE are getting incredibly better, easier to use and faster while mac/windows gets more bloated and slower. More apps (office and such) are web based, steam is bringing more games to linux, it just needs few companies that will ship a decent distro for gov/orgs with few security hw/sw features and the domino effect will start. Once orgs realize that they can save a crazy amount of money having an internal IT team focused on linux support and contribution instead of paying stupidly high hw and license prices we will end this ridiculous era of shitty os dominance. It will never be too soon though
I heard that 10 years ago
10 years ago there were no decent web apps and cloud was just starting. Nonetheless, some cities were already kicking out windows, but they got bribed back to order https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux " [...] In 2014, Munich deputy mayor, Josef Schmid, and mayor, Dieter Reiter, considered going back to Windows due to alleged productivity problems. [...] the head of municipal IT services, Karl-Heinz Schneider, stated that most things were fine, and they had managed saved some 10 million euros (more than 13 million dollars) [...] the majority of city workers were satisfied [...] Reiter denied that he had initiated the reversal in gratitude for Microsoft moving its German headquarters from Unterschleißheim back to Munich " Today there are more cloud apps, linux DE got incredibly better and easier. It is just a matter of time, like fossil fuels vs renewable
Desktop Linux is dead
ye it's ded💀
I disagree