I use Linux on the desktop since 1997, and there was no point where Windows was even slightly more attractive.
I don't know what "prime time" means here.
edit: apart from, you know. Applications and drivers for random hardware.
I don't know what "prime time" means here.
edit: apart from, you know. Applications and drivers for random hardware.
It was fine for non-technical users since at least early GNOME 2, if you're ready to help them set up and maintain. Semi-technical users (Windows power users, gamers, &c — people who like to install and configure things, but fear the deep dark abyss of the terminal) were and remain more problematic.
Unity days were the nadir of linux desktop ux — it was when Gnome 2 was gone, and 3 not yet there. Still better than contemporaneous Windows 8, though.
People are always task-oriented, not tool oriented unless they’re nerds.