would not surprise me, it's by far the most widely used and well known though I guess
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printing is incredibly broken and sometimes cumbersome
some games and applications (photoshop, et cetera) people care for don't run or only with some work involved
it does not come pre-installed with computers people buy
not sure about power efficiency (power drain optimizations for notebooks and the like), but last I checked it's less efficient there
not necessarily a gui for everything
mere fact that there is so much choice (distributions, desktop environments, et cetera) that it is confusing
no central customer support
xorg is a mess, wayland afaik with some bad design decisions already
those were always the reasons weren't they?
your comment seems to imply it's not usable on the desktop, that's not the case, but for above reasons it has never gone mainstream (and will not in the near future) for the desktop.
but I am really an unsympathetic person to the whole linux-on-desktop mission. for me it's a server os or for specific use cases (ps4 based on freebsd, android, et cetera), that's where it shines, it's nice it works on the desktop, and I always use bsd/linux for my machines, but some think it apparently has to rival/beat windows/macos, don't agree with that. (in many ways it's particularly nice for developers/geeks because it's a server os working on the desktop, not another windows/macos - tell that to the systemd folks...)
What happened: people who were dissatisfied with gnome 3.x forked gnome 2 (a long time ago), created the Mate Desktop Environment, and that's pretty much it.
somewhat ancient history and the site has nothing of particular interest to offer... (no revolutionary milestone or anything of that sort)
So it is not my intention to disregard any form of presenting/visualizing data without a specific example or proper context.
[1] It is my personal belief that Social Media, Twitter, and the short attention span of the modern age all aided extremely in this. If you look at "sophisticated media outlets" at Facebook, they are playing the click-bait game nevertheless. How to be on Facebook or Twitter and not be a tabloid?
This is, sadly, extremely true and even more sadly, very often used. 5 times more likely to die from x, sounds impressive, risk increase from 0.001 to 0.005 percent does not. Newspapers want to ... sell newspapers, and sounding dramatic is part of it. If every person capable of reading "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre did so, this would be a better world. It's by the way the best I've seen to give the amateur an understanding of statistics, studies, being critical, manipulation by media, et cetera... (while being entertaining and an easy read, a frequent present of mine to other people).
"Depends on what you mean by rational. I don’t like that word. You could use other words like “value-congruent,” which fit in with what people feel is the appropriate value. Those are the decisions they will make and not regret in the future."
"Value-congruent", nice one. "Rational" is indeed one of those empty words that is thrown around.
One thing I also find incredibly important: People have to understand science is a METHOD, not an AUTHORITY. Because people don't listen to authority, but in many cases they can't argue much with reason. This is incredibly important, a lot of the anti-science sentiment stems from viewing science as an authority, and this is extremely stupid.