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Here we go (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is exactly the “popular => bad” mentality that needs to die. Good products are good—and perhaps more importantly, bad products are bad—irrespective of their popularity. Linux is a masterpiece as a result of millions of hours of thoughtful and rigorous engineering, not the absence of its wide adoption on desktop. Windows is a dumpster fire as a result of millions of hours of reckless code vomit, not its ubiquity on desktop. See also: the Android operating system you know and (if I had to guess) love.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I use windows and it runs prefectly fine for me so I never said it would get bad... just become more like windows.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Like Windows, how? An operating system has dozens of properties that could be "like Windows", please specify.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Windows used to be alright/tolerable like 3 operating systems ago, each new version takes features away and brings new bugs that are more and more annoying in their attempt to get a slice of Apple's closed garden pie. Their auto sign in feature has caused me SO MANY headaches when trying to sign in with a different user

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There will certainly be versions of Linux that will become more like Windows. I mean we're seeing it already with Ubuntu. Android has been that way for years. But there will also always be community-made FOSS alternatives. And Ubuntu development will continue to trickle down to other OSs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It already is. It's becoming increasingly GUI-centric and technologies like Flatpak are blurring the differences between distros. (FWIW I think this is a good thing)