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I've been using MacOSX as my primary desktop since the days of Rhapsody. But I always had Linux virtual machines running on occasions. A dwindling number of machines at home were running Linux, most notably a couple of Raspberry Pi and a Synology Diskstation. And when I installed Linux, I usually went for Ubuntu, which did a good job polishing the user experience. The build ring for Tao3D includes a number of virtual machines running several major distros for testing purpose, but it's been quite inactive for a while, and repairing it is on my short-term to-do list.
Working for Red Hat, I thought I had to use Fedora as my primary desktop. And the experience has been a bit underwhelming so far, unfortunately. In just three days, I managed to render a Mac Book Pro unbootable in OSX, had several different issues with skippy or laggy mouse cursors and even non-responsive keyboards, had a driver crash attempting to access my home Wi-Fi, found out the hard way that NFS performance is just horrible, and had to use Google for trivial things way too often.
I complained several times on this blog about what I perceived as a degradation of OSX software quality since 10.6, but this experience with Linux puts all this in some serious perspective.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday December 24 2016, @07:19PM
No. The problem with Linux on the desktop is devices and programs that were designed for a different OS and don't see any reason to be more flexible. I kept a MSWind95 machine around for over a decade because it had some applications that wouldn't run on anything else. This is why dominant platforms that depend on selling new versions feature PLANNED obsolescence. They need to make the transition to the next version desirable and easy. When it's not desirable you don't sell upgrades. When it's not easy you don't sell upgrades.
But even with careful planning, lots of times the upgrade is going to be resisted, sometimes for good reason. One of the companies that built software for MSWind95 went out of business, and thus never upgraded it. So I couldn't run it even under MSWind98. So I kept the MSWind95 computer without upgrading, and was careful to ensure it didn't get attached to the net. (I hadupgraded it to MSWind95B.)
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