A post like this is probably why linux doesn’t hold more “market share” in households. if there were just, say, 10 distros and the linux community worked to make those 10 the absolute best....but no, they let their egos get in the way of a superior product. Any time you have to go to a command line, you’ve lost me. But that’s just me.
Exactly. I actually prefer the command line. That is why there are so many different distros. Because there are so many different kinds of users. It's not a "one size fits all" mentality like Windows is. It's a "here's a collection of tools to use as you see fit" mentality.
Yes.
200+ flavors? Ridiculous.
As for the command lines, that reminds me of the days of MSDOS. I quit using that, except for special needs, nearly 25 years ago.
I have been playing around with a Linux-only Mint laptop. Mint is okay, it has problems. Going from 18.2 to 18.3, something started screwing up the icons in the system tray and menu items occasionally. I have to reboot to get them back.
Also, they still cannot find a way to get FoxSportsPro to work because of Digital Media Rights. I even tried several browsers via Wine and that was an effort in futility. Ironically, NBCSports plays without any problem.
I still revert to Win7 when I want to so some serious computing. I can load and have a project completed in Word or Excel 97 before the embedded Word/Excel even load. Windows still has its problems, too.
I’ve been using Linux Mint, for years and I love it! I wasn’t impressed with earlier versions such as 10 or 13, bit 16 up is excellent. The earlier versions had issues with overheating, and not being able to utilise headphones properly among other things. I’m using 18.3 right now on an Acer laptop, and it’s excellent. I have zero issues. 19 is on it’s way out any minute, and I hear it’s a bit faster than 18 which is a good thing. When my PC had a fresh version of Windows 8.1 on it, it was slow as mud. So, I wiped it off and installed Mint 18.1. it’s worked like a charm. I have 2 other Acer laptops with mint 16 on one, and 17 on the other. No issues with those, either.
Linux is the base is on Android phones, too.
Command lines can have their place, like running msinfo32 from the Windows Run (Win key + r), or in rare cases use the Power Shell (Win key + x) to do something like disable hibernation via the powercfg -h off, but not as a norm which is often the case with Linux, such as being able to modify application files.
Linux has much potential, but while it can be fine for those who want to just surf Internet and do word processing, or learn coding, yet after trying every major distro, I have found it actually lacks the level of easy customization that can be obtained under Windows with safe freeware.