For me 2012 was the year when I cut the cord. So 2013 won’t be. :)
However, it really does take an investment of time, a passion for doing it, and a certain amount of knowledge or willingness to use Google and try different things.
This has come along like clockwork. Every year since 1999: “This is the year of Linux on the desktop!!”
No, its not. Linux is a server OS. On the desktop, it appeals to hobbyists. Without real software developers like Adobe and Microsoft, it has no appeal to ordinary users. (Don’t tell me that there are Linux substitutes for popular mainstream applications, because they are junk.”
I’ve been using Windows 8 full time since the RTM came out in the summer. Windows 8 leapfrogs over Apple and Linux offerings in terms of innovation, functionality, and beauty. Its the best OS I’ve ever used.
Let me know when I can play games like Skyrim and others on Linux. Pardon me if I don’t hold my breath.
I do all of my “real” work on Linux, but I have to keep Windows around because:
1. Some games I want to play don’t run on Linux.
2. Multi-media support on Linux is fragmented and unstable.
In a world where media is starting to be ruled by streaming content that Linux can’t play, it’s just not going to be an end-user OS.
Except for a few games and Windows 7 itself, there is nothing running on my PC which requires any user payment or licensing agreement.
Linux: by geeks, for geeks.
It’s improving, but still has a core requirement that the user be able to deal with “oops, oh, just type this obscure incantation...”
I keep trying to like it, and keep giving up. As a programmer for 35 years, this does not bode well for the average user. I can make it work, but the unrelenting brokenness and tinkering just means its not ready for the general public.
I’ve used Debian as my primary OS on my desktop machine for many years. My desktop is KDE, and has been since the 90s.
For the last couple of years, my laptop that I take out in the field has been an 11” Mac Book Air. I’ve ordered a new 13” one, but have decided that it will be dual boot (Mac OS X/Debian).
For Windows stuff, I use a virtual machine.
I guess I am one that never fully transferred to Windows. I use Linux for many reasons the #1 reason is I can take a raw kernel and custom compile a system for a computer, strip out what I don’t need and add what I do thus I have a system custom made for that computer.
Example, I have an old Compaq Armada Titanium 3 gig hard drive 512 ram I custom compiled a kernel that runs like a dream on this old machine.
I have one old desktop that has 25 partitions and 25 different OS on it reading thru the grub list is like reading a book! This one was my old bug machine’s I installed different distro’s to try out and search for bugs never had a problem with it lmao!
No
Why not have both Linux and Windows?.. easy to do..
Its Windows thats so picky about where to install..
Right. And I’ll make 2013 the year I switch my ride to a Trabant, too.
I’ll stick with my Mac ecosystem — it just works beautifully. I don’t want to have open my toaster and modify or repair the guts every time I want to toast some bread. I want my information appliances to be as simple to use as my toaster.
There are a few things that I wish Linux did, but I am still happy with it
Make 2013 the year you switch to Linux
Too late!!
Guess they decided that whole Win 95 interface thing wasn’t working out after all, so they went back to the Win 3.1 UI. ;)
I understand that Linux is more stable and I don't think anyone is arguing that aspect of the issue, but until we can click on Install.exe in Linux and have it install as easily as it does in Windows, this discussion is over.