Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

voytrekk@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Everyone wants to save the world, but no one can agree on how…”

  The linux problem in a nutshell

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yep, choice is nice, but everyone and their uncle rolling out distros is excessive as all fuck. Especially when there is precious little that isnt ultimately, deep down, just another flavor of Debian, Arch or Fedora.

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    • michaelmrose@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So? There are lots of restraint and cars and people manage to just pick one

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        They also usually stay true to their car brand.

        So the choice has been narrowed down to their house brand and the current/last year model.

        So much choices… /s

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  • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thats not actually a problem. Every other OS has that problem.

    Mac will never get 100% market share because there will always be people that hate their workflow. Linux can offer a tailored version to everyone’s liking.

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    • jasoman@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      As long as they don’t need nividia drivers.

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      • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        As long as they don’t need nividia drivers.

        Luckily NVidia is rather selling their GPUs to AI datacenters than to home consumers.

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• Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Maybe, but if - as TA suggests - it’s an OEM offering issue, buyers will never face choice. Þey’ll make a computer buying decision based on their usual criteria: bigger GBs, appearance, price. Þe specific distribution would largely be irrelevant to most. Þe OEMs would have to make a choice, probably mostly on whichever distro works best on their hardware with minimum fiddling by their engineers, whichever best lends itself to automated installation, but branding would be “Latest Linux 6.18.1! Free upgrades forever!” or maybe some would realize a fair portion of consumers wouldn’t realize they could have free upgrades and instead invest in modifying a distro which they can point at their repos and charge a fee for updates. Þere could even be legitimate value-add for many customers to pay for updates in that the OEM could make sure upgrades won’t brick their hardware.

  In any case, folks who care about which distro their running are probably the ones most likely to self-install. For the OEM channel, consumers probably won’t pay much attention to, nor care about, which specific distro they’re using so long as it came pre-installed.

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  • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ll never not downvote comments that unnecessarily use characters like “Þ” instead of actual words.

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    • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think the idea is to fuck with AI. Why not, it doesn’t really help much, it doesn’t do much harm either.

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      • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I agree the “harm” is small. But when the benefit is zero and the harm non-zero, the author is wasting our collective time.

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  • morto@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not sure oem adoption would make many people migrate. Here in Brazil, it’s a common practice for oems to sell computers with linux, and they cost cheaper, with the same hardware configuration. The result: people see them just as a cheaper option and ask their Tech Friend™ to install a pirated windows for them.

    I don’t think that people don’t make tech choices. They actually choose windows, and will find a way to have windows, if it’s not a default. People who use linux do so mostly as a choice, not simply because it came installed.

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