Comments on: Why is Linux Not More Widely Used Than It Is?

By: Divine

Divine — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 01:07:25 +0000

In reply to stevewf1.

Hmm installations are buggy on some machines, no doubt. Perhaps it’s more an issue with the image and not Linux in entirety

By: stevewf1

stevewf1 — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:58:41 +0000

I installed openSUSE on one of my laptops. After installation, WiFi wouldn’t work. It looks like I have to key in things I’ve never had to mess with before just to get connected to the internet. This laptop had Windows 10 installed before and WiFi was no problem. It connected and it worked. If I want to spend my time messing around with something, I’ll turn to my model railroad, not Linux and just use Windows to get things done…

By: Andrew Carpin

Andrew Carpin — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 23:39:21 +0000

Hey I just wanted to say though I’m a newbie, I bought a new dell 5530 with ubuntu installed out of the factory and I couldn’t be happier!

By: Erik Wroblewski

Erik Wroblewski — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 17:18:36 +0000

Yeah, most of the times… for example, while in Windows I can have full support to my hybrid Intel/AMD GPU, and run games like The Witcher 3 or render 4k-quality images through CAD software, the non-existence of a driver for older Intel/AMD “combos” make my Linux desktop so underpowered in comparison to Windows 10 that I am considering switching back.

Don’t get me wrong, I loath Win10 privacy issues as well as its horrible interface (not to mention updates hell), but in Linux not only 3D acceleration on my dedicated GPU is 4 times worse than the in-built Intel haswell chip, but because I also can’t turn off AMD GPU, my battery life is basically halved in comparison to Windows.

Is it “Linux fault”? Absolutely not, it is lack of support from Intel/AMD/Dell. However, Linux isn’t perfect (yet) and in some cases it will just don’t do.

By: אילן שמעוני

אילן שמעוני — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 21:21:18 +0000

The main reason is that Linux – any Linux – is very unfriendly to the common user.

I have tried several Linux distros over the years. My user experience was
horrible each and every time. At 1st things seem fine, but after
installing much needed software the system became slow and glitchy.
Error and problems became rampant, and the various software “products”
proved inferior and full of problems.Problems were slow or impossible to
solve though I have used many forums and boards to get support.

It seems that Linux developers fail to grasp the idea that the user never, NEVER should
face CL interface. You may hide everything behind the UI like Android
and OS X do, but the user must never need it to fix issues. With
Windows, to solve a problem you Google, find some answers that do not
require CLI and most of the time get rid of the problems. In Linux this
approach failed me completely, both with many CLI answers and in the end
result .

In my experience Linux is straight-out user-hostile.
It seems that this what happens when the OS developers are exactly this
– OS developers, without these horrible focus-groups, designers and so
forth. There are reasons why these professions are in demand – and
before you ask – no, I am not one.

By: Divine

Divine — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 10:02:28 +0000

In reply to Nahid Mahmud.

And I would like more people to know about GNU/Linux.