Stupid joke aside, the year of the Linux desktop is the year that you choose to run Linux on your desktop. The end. People have been running Linux on desktop machines long before it was convenient or even sensible (Red Hat's early releases and broken GCC's come to mind)...now you can download something like Linux Mint and be up and running, fully patched, faster than you can with most Windows systems.
So yeah, the year of the Linux desktop? Whatever year you want it to be. All I can say is that I hope you're
now you can download something like Linux Mint and be up and running... faster than you can with most Windows systems
I can't count how many times I've read this same comment. And it is true, but do you really think the reason someone picks an operating system is because they can save a few minutes when they first install it? What I think would be most frustrating for end users is installing and updating software. For some apps that can be a nightmare.
A distro has everything neatly managed in the repository. Click, install and it updates automatically with the rest of the system...
If a distro has everything in the repository then why do you have Linux download links for anything? It would be redundant. The reality is no, not everything is in the repository.
Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only
specification is that it should run noiselessly.
That clinches it. (Score:5, Funny)
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Stupid joke aside, the year of the Linux desktop is the year that you choose to run Linux on your desktop. The end. People have been running Linux on desktop machines long before it was convenient or even sensible (Red Hat's early releases and broken GCC's come to mind)...now you can download something like Linux Mint and be up and running, fully patched, faster than you can with most Windows systems.
So yeah, the year of the Linux desktop? Whatever year you want it to be. All I can say is that I hope you're
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now you can download something like Linux Mint and be up and running ... faster than you can with most Windows systems
I can't count how many times I've read this same comment. And it is true, but do you really think the reason someone picks an operating system is because they can save a few minutes when they first install it? What I think would be most frustrating for end users is installing and updating software. For some apps that can be a nightmare.
Re:That clinches it. (Score:5, Insightful)
Are we talking about a Linux distro or Windows here?
A distro has everything neatly managed in the repository. Click, install and it updates automatically with the rest of the system...
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Ah yes, I run the 'Yosemite' BSD distro and it works pretty much just like that...
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A distro has everything neatly managed in the repository. Click, install and it updates automatically with the rest of the system...
If a distro has everything in the repository then why do you have Linux download links for anything? It would be redundant. The reality is no, not everything is in the repository.