If it works for you and your situation, great. Stop trying to make me change what works for me because you believe it would somehow be better.
Also can we just stop this endless bickering over irrelevant things like this.
I say this as a Linux user for a little over a decade, and someone who can not tolerate using Windows with its extreme need for bad system gui to be able to achieve anything, and lack of the software suites I have gotten used to.
You do you, and I will do me.
/edit: I am mostly talking to the comments here, not the document as I find it refreshingly non judgmental in its analysis of pros and cons.
> If it works for you and your situation, great. Stop trying to make me change what works for me because you believe it would somehow be better.
On a personal level, I completely agree with this sentiment. If grandma wants to use windows, macOS, or whatever, she should do so!
When a Windows update fails halfway through and can't boot to Windows, or when macOS can't connect to it's all powerful binary validation server and her system becomes unusable, she's going to call me. Okay, fine, I'll play tech support for my relatives because they've chosen to use an unstable system. Same as if my junker car broke down, I'd call my uncle, because he's a mechanic, and he'd berate me for not having a reliable car, then fix it. What's family for.
However, my workplace is Windows only. I've wasted literally hundreds of hours fighting against Windows to make firewall and server settings correct (and fixed them again when it updates and borks the settings) for network applications that I've wrote. Something that would take about an hour to write a bash script for, push it to all the computers if they were Linux, and they'd never ever fail after that. It's just mind boggling that people accept this kind of behavior, and it's very damaging in the workplace. So I'm gonna keep pushing for Linux as standard at the workplace, and run whatever you want at home.
Yes, and that is because Windows isn't working for you. But I know of plenty of lay people and professionals who use Windows, and enjoy it. For them it works.
And I know of plenty of people, me included, which would walk away from a job if Windows was a requirement (which I have done after a mandatory switch was made post hiring).
So you do you, and I'll do me, and please can we just move onto something more important.
I get what you are saying and agree. However the reason these types of articles appear in the internet is because the linux desktop needs more market share. More means the ability to get better support from other organizations OR to get open source replacements of apps and drivers. Linux needs better market share to get better, so you get stuff like this posted.
> However the reason these types of articles appear in the internet is because the linux desktop needs more market share
Then Linux Desktop people should actually try to address the reasons people say they are staying on Windows/MacOS. I have been watching this show now for 20 years and very little has changed. Linux Desktop evangelists keep telling people they should use Linux Desktop, and keep get told by potential users why they aren't using Linux Desktop, then they ignore it. Linux Desktop evangelists have tied Linux to their identity in such a way that they interpret any criticism as a personal attack and defend themselves with the same tired old stock arguments. These types of articles appeal to the Linux Desktop evangelist because they soothe them.
If it works for you and your situation, great. Stop trying to make me change what works for me because you believe it would somehow be better.
Also can we just stop this endless bickering over irrelevant things like this.
I say this as a Linux user for a little over a decade, and someone who can not tolerate using Windows with its extreme need for bad system gui to be able to achieve anything, and lack of the software suites I have gotten used to.
You do you, and I will do me.
/edit: I am mostly talking to the comments here, not the document as I find it refreshingly non judgmental in its analysis of pros and cons.