There have been better, cleaner, leaner, FOSS operating systems out there for decades, why support, or even give mindshare to something like Windows?
Also: https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.t...
Notice that a lot of this one is about NVIDIA. The solution is simple: don't use it. Desktop Linux works great on Intel and AMD, where the driver support is excellent. NVIDIA isn't the only GPU vendor out there.
Printers work much better in Linux than in Windows, and it's been this way for a very long time. The exception is cheap, crappy inkjets. Solution: don't use cheap, crappy inkjets. Inkjets are a scam.
Games are always on this list. I don't care about games.
Many of the other points in your list are completely obsolete.
For business use, most of these factors are a non-issue. Being able to play AAA games is not important for a business computer, nor for many (most?) home computers. I know gamers can't conceive of this, but not everyone plays recent AAA video games.
- spend more money
- I don't care about it
- something undefined is obsolete
- ignoring that most business runs on MS products and compatibility issues are a thing
This attitude is one reason that was not on the list. It's one that one should not forget though as it hits hard for those who are determined to make it work. They found themselves confronted by a self centered community of semi-gods who think the world should arrange around what they assume it is.
Nvidia isn't the cheapest option by far, so no, you should change this to "spend LESS money". If you're talking about printers (your post was poorly written and didn't refer to anything point-by-point), then yes, and also "spend more money to save money". Inkjet printers are a scam, full stop. They cost a LOT of money in consumables. You will save a lot of money by buying a laser printer instead. It's really that simple. And every laser printer works just fine in Linux. There is no good reason to buy a <$100 inkjet printer unless you really want to be ripped off.
>- I don't care about it
Yes, and lots of other people don't as well. If games are the only thing keeping you on Windows (and I've talked to a bunch of people for whom this is the case), then stop complaining about all the problems and spying in Windows: you're making a choice to enjoy a luxury, and put up with things you find abhorrent, just because of your addiction to games. I know this is news to a lot of younger techies, but not everyone cares about modern AAA games. I guess I shouldn't even bother writing this because apparently this concept is so utterly foreign to them, but it's true. There's large swathes of the computer-using population (which these days is most of the population) that don't buy or play video games, and haven't since they were kids. Amazing huh? So no, the fact that Linux can't play every single AAA game just isn't an issue to them.
>- something undefined is obsolete
I have no idea what you're referring to here, perhaps you could try being more descriptive.
>- ignoring that most business runs on MS products and compatibility issues are a thing
In my experience, all my work is in Linux, except for MS Office and Outlook, and companies are wasting a lot of money buying me a separate computer (or VMware licenses etc.) just so I can read email on Outlook.
That's not the point here. Usually people have problems with Linux and Nvidia because they already have Nvidia in their computer. So changing hardware for Linux to make it work properly involves spending more money. Same goes for peoples printers. And no it's not just about inkjet. This is about drivers and unforeseeable issues you face if you switch and I know what I'm talking about since I made my parents laptop switch over to Mint and been confronted with issues on their laser printer...
> Yes, and lots of other people don't as well. If games are the only thing keeping you on Windows then stop complaining about all the problems and spying in Windows
I'm not sure if you misread the thread here. The original argument was about someone complaining that people have "love for Microsoft". Nobody was complaining about anything you bring up there.
> you're making a choice to enjoy a luxury, and put up with things you find abhorrent, just because of your addiction to games.
So what you did here was to blow out a straw man to infinity. Who's talking about addictions? Not everybody who wants to play a game after work or from time to time is addicted. What is this generalizing overdramatization?
> I have no idea what you're referring to here, perhaps you could try being more descriptive.
I didn't know what you meant by obsolete. That's why I wrote that. If you don't know what's obsolete, it wouldn't be much of a surprise to me considering the way you crippled the other points above but it's still kinda weird.
> In my experience, all my work is in Linux, except for MS Office and Outlook
So I guess you just don't have much experience then. It's not just office and outlook. It's a endless amount of small programs in different regions of different businesses and hardware. There is a huge world out there beyond your narrow world view of addicted kids, inkjet printers and outlook. The fact that you still think you can impose this narrow worldview on strangers enforces the point I've made at the end of my previous comment. You know, the one you ignored. You might want to sit down and think about this point alone. It may give you a hint why people like you are not helpful to the whole migration away from Microsoft. You are rather another reason why it's happening slower for some or not at all for others.
Bye.
Ok, then suppose you decide you want to run MacOS. Do you think it's unreasonable to have to change your hardware for that? Then why do you think Linux should be able to magically run perfectly on all PC hardware out there?
>Nobody was complaining about anything you bring up there.
The Win10 spying is the #1 complaint I hear from people these days about why they're "really" going to switch to Linux this time.
>Not everybody who wants to play a game after work or from time to time is addicted.
Yet the anti-Linux people constantly bring up games as some huge reason that desktop Linux "just can't work" and is "completely impossible". No, not everyone plays games, but people like you just can't conceive of this, can you?
>So I guess you just don't have much experience then. It's not just office and outlook
I have decades of experience, unlike you apparently. In all my engineering jobs, the only thing Windows is used for is Office and Outlook, and maybe running a hypervisor.
I think it's unreasonable to change to Mac at all but that is a completely different topic regarding a walled garden. I don't think Linux has to run on all kinds of hardware. Actually my argument was that Windows does that and that's one reason why it's everywhere and it will stay so for quite some time. You should read the comment you've originally answered to again.
> The Win10 spying is the #1 complaint I hear from people these days about why they're "really" going to switch to Linux this time.
The narrow group you are talking about here are also not the topic here. As I said before: Windows is everywhere. In regards to your argument here: most people don't care or don't even know about this.
> Yet the anti-Linux people constantly bring up games as some huge reason that desktop Linux "just can't work" and is "completely impossible". No, not everyone plays games, but people like you just can't conceive of this, can you?
Look at you. Just one comment before they were all addicts now everybody questioning the actual usability, compatibility and all those other issues form my first comments link are "anti-Linux people" and of course everything is my fault now...which brings us back to the topic of attitude. You know, that issue that you keep ignoring.
> I have decades of experience, unlike you apparently. In all my engineering jobs, the only thing Windows is used for is Office and Outlook, and maybe running a hypervisor.
Just like above you've displayed you extremely narrow experience and or world view and you keep doing it. I work for a huge worldwide engineering and architecture company and we have all kinds of programs that have been written for and run on Windows. For example software that collects and manages logger data, ever heard of AutoCAD? Revit? I mean, seriously how could you in your DECADE OF EXPERIENCE never heard of that? Everything around Sharepoint. Everything the architects design for VR. Also client ports and client software is exclusively Windows in this field. Ever worked for any branch of the military or state entities? All this potentiality increases if you look at our subs and their subs.
So I guess your decades of experience are either in a very narrow field or you are ignorant or you just lied to me and hoped to get through with that. None of those options shad a good light on you and the Linux migration movement. As I have mentioned above: you are hurting it.