Posted on 11/15/2018 9:30:47 AM PST by ShadowAce
Stop me if youve heard this one before: <yyyy> will be the year of the Linux desktop. Even in Linux circles this is greeted with eye-rolling. Heres the funny thing, though: Linux long ago won the hearts and minds of end users, even while the Linux desktop continues to spin its wheels.
How can that be?
The paradox is easily explained. But as for Linuxs failure to capture desktop hearts and minds, thats a complicated story. Ill lay it out for you.
First, the paradox: According to the latest Annenberg Surveying the Digital Future report, the average American now spends 24 hours a week online. Meanwhile, Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meekers 2018 Internet Trends Report shows the average adult in 2017 spending 5.9 hours a day watching or listening to digital media.
And what do roughly 95.6% of all websites run on? With the exception of Microsoft sites, the answer is Linux. Facebook? Linux. Google? Linux. Yahoo? Linux. Netflix? Linux. I can go on and on. You may use Windows on your desktop, but its effectively just a front end to Linux-based services and data. You might as well be using a Chromebook (running on Linux-based Chrome OS, by the way).
But as a matter of fact, Windows is no longer the top end-user operating system. Oh yes, it does still dominate the desktop, but the desktop hasnt been king of the end-user hill for some time. By StatCounters reckoning, the most popular end-user operating system as of September 2018, with 40.85% market share, was drum roll, please Android. Which guess what is based on Linux.
So, in several senses, Linux has been the top end-user operating system for some time.
But not on the desktop, where...
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I use Mint 17.1 and our Quicken Home works well and is stable. I use PlayOnLinux to get it to run and there's been no problems at all. You might give it a shot. Or Try CrossOver from CodeWeavers.
You could also use the free Oracle VM VirtualBox to run a Windows OS and do whatever you need with QuickBooks. I use VirtualBox on my Mint to run XP for a number of Windows Programs. Games and such.
#18 ah yes the old zeugma command....
Greek to me :)
Funny thing is, if you're using KDE, the file manager understands the "fish://" protocol, so you can basically do a drag/drop operation from a gui to do the same thing whether or not the files are local or remote to you. Personally, I think typing 20 or so characters is quicker than going through the trouble of using a graphical file broswer. YMMV.
It has been several years since I last tried PlayOnLinux / Wine / CrossOver. It was not working very well back then. Perhaps things have changed.
I’ll take a look. Thanks.
Desktop/Laptop operating system browsing statistics | ||||
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Windows |
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81.76% | ||
macOS |
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13.49% | ||
Unknown |
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1.99% | ||
Linux |
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1.68% | ||
Chrome OS |
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1.08% | ||
Desktop OS market share according to StatCounter for September 2018.[73] Chrome OS is also based on the Linux kernel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems |
Category | Source | Date | Linux | Unix and Unix-like (not incl. Linux) | Windows | In-house | Other | |
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Desktop, laptop | Net Applications[234] | September 2018 | 2.21% (excl. Chrome OS) plus 0.29% ChromeOS | 9.52% (macOS) | 87.56% (all versions) | 0.37% | ||
Smartphone, tablet | StatCounter Global Stats[235] | September 2018 | 73.19% (Android) | 24.26% (iOS) | 0.36% | 2.19% | ||
Server (web) | W3Techs[236] | Apr 2017 | 66.637% (of the known-for-sure lower bound of Linux share: Ubuntu 35.8%, Debian 31.9%, CentOS 20.6%, Red Hat (RHEL) 3.3%, Gentoo 2.7%, Fedora 0.9%) | c. 1% (BSD; Unix-like could be up to 30.18%, then "Unknown" needs to be known to be not Linux) 66.6% Unix-like share is mostly Linux; the "Unknown" part, there-of 43.1%, is assumed to be also Linux (for upper bound of that column), could be some non-Linux or e.g. any of the named Linux distributions in the Linux column. |
33.5% (Windows Server 2016, W2K12, W2K8) | |||
Supercomputer | TOP500 | Nov 2017 | 100% (Custom) | |||||
Mainframe | Gartner[228] | Dec 2008 | 28% (SLES, RHEL) | 72% (z/OS) UNIX System Services | ||||
Video game consoles | VGChartz[237] | Jan 2018 | 35.04% (PS4, PS3, Vita, PSP) | 16.63% (Xbox One, Xbox 360) | 48.32% (Switch, Wii U, Wii, 3DS, DS) | |||
Embedded | UBM Electronics[238] | Mar 2012 | 29.44% (Android plus other non-Android Linux) | 4.29% (QNX) | 11.65% (WCE 7) | 13.5% ("Inhouse/custom" is most popular, single choice) | 41.1% | - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#Market_share_by_category |
If if Install Chrome OS on a PC and Turn It Into a Chromebook then do you think I could install the software on it and get it to work?
There is also https://www.techspot.com/downloads/7016-phoenix-os.html
It’s worth a shot
Thanks.
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