Windows 10 Bleeds Users While Ubuntu Linux Enjoys an Astonishing Increase
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But, since we are looking at relative market shares, that means every other OS' share goes up, even if the actual number of users remains almost the same. (And the article points this out at the end.)
This will be followed by each of those OSs seeing massive drops in relative market share once people go back to work and all the dormant Windows 10 computers start running again.
But there’s no way she’d have just “known” this, and it’s just another hurdle to non technical users. Why should you have to know that Ubuntu is a downstream distro of Debian to install a program?
Just say "teams doesn't work well on my computer, it's very poorly made. Can we use jitsimeet? It's much easier for me." and them drop them a jitsi link without waiting for their response.
Teams is the official video chat at my company, I've been successfully ignoring that for more than 2 months now. At this stage, jitsi usage is starting to spread to other teams.
It's also something that is answered effectively with the very first Google result for an obvious search: https://www.google.com/search?q=should+i+install+deb+or+rpm&...
There are a few ways round this but they would generally require action on the part of all the software suppliers who post packages via websites. In your example it wouldn't be hard for MS to figure out the Ubuntu users and send them just the right link and likewise several other Linux distros - I guess it's still not worth it.
Maybe this is an area where a JS library for websites would avoid each one rolling their own and thus make the experience better across the board?
For my parents it's simpler to go with OSX.
For working on print, Inkscape and Gimp pale in comparision with adobe's suite. Not to mention sharing files with the "de facto market standards" world .
For working on audiovisuals, no cigar.
For working on development, well, none of my external hardware was supported (my last experience was Ubuntu 18+) but ok, the IDE worked.
In any case, going to the original question: normal user who?
Gimp: Agree, most features are there but finding them is a chore
File sharing: Illustrator uses .ai files which are .pdf (compatible with inkscape), can't speak about .psd compatibility with Gimp, never tried it
Audiovisual: DaVinci Resolve is awesome, and adequate for most if not all home users
Development: I'm assuming you mean embedded development, this relies on support from the vendor, community can't do much about this. Most development are not embedded developers, and in my experience boards by SiLabs worked pretty much out of the box. Obviously anything web (except ASP I guess, I may be wrong) is a breeze on Linux
Regardless, the normal user needs none of this. They need a web browser and an office suite. The Linux ecosystem needs a more intuitive office suite, but libreoffice is good enough and Google Docs/Office365 online work for many people too
This is when a new version of Ubuntu was released. Since it's measured by web visits, this could be a bunch of people installing 20.04 in a VM and checking it out
So... a whole bunch of servers using Ubuntu got fired up?
An increase in market share higher than the increase in actual users would be accounted for by the size of the market overall decreasing while the number of Ubuntu users either stayed the same, increased but at a lower rate than the increase in market share or decreased at a rate lower than the decrease in the number of users of other operating systems.
Open source creative and professional tools are on par with proprietary tools (MS Office, Adobe) in terms of function and UI,
GUI applications are written for every conceivable setting a non-technical user would need,
Gaming is easier (it's getting better)
And, Ubuntu, Mint and other popular distros streamline everything even more so that even an idiot (and lots of people are idiots when it comes to tech) can use it.
Once those things happen, there is a chance we'll carve out more of the market, and create a snowball effect. If 10% of the market starts using Linux because OEMs preinstalled it to cut costs, software devs will notice, and it will only get better from there as more popular programs are ported to Linux.
As for everything else, kind of agree.
10 years and still a broken NDK experience, Java stuck on a pseudo Java 8 subset, every IO the best practices get rebooted, Vulkan requires cloning github repos, already went through 3 animation frameworks, JetPack Composer still has no idea how to match existing GUI tooling, ....
Is this obtainable standalone in any form?