Which country, or group of countries, will try to make Linux for the masses, or at least for their government and public servants, a reality -- and when?
Is it going to be India? The EU? Brazil? Nigeria?
Is it going to be India? The EU? Brazil? Nigeria?
https://www.onmanorama.com/career-and-campus/top-news/2021/0...
Eg xrdp is a huge productivity hit at best, but honestly not viable at all.
To this day, laptop and desktop computers "for the masses" exist almost solely for office work and gaming. Windows and Microsoft products are too ingrained in both use cases, so it will take a herculean effort in changing software standards and platforms for app vendors to consider Linux.
The year of the Linux desktop ought to have started with the netbook craze of 2007 but Microsoft's nuclear response to that (free windows licenses, ordering OEMs to cap netbook RAM at 2GB) successfully choked that market segment in its sleep.
There are, unfortunately, an awful lot of ways Microsoft can still subtly bring legally deniable pressure to bear on OEMs and antitrust enforcement in America is a joke anyhow.
Other than that, I keep reading about the big Linux exodus for the last 20 years, myself I have given up for the Apple, Google and Microsoft controlled ecosystems, after having emails with a signature that used to have M$ on it, and having been a Linux Journal subscriber for the lifetime of its printed existence.
Untying it from google is quite hard, though.
You can either have the desktop linux that is proven to work as a drop-in replacement, or you can have the lab rat version that only works out in engineering orgs.