Linux has failed on the desktop. Time to face reality and move on.

What does your life look like OP? What would your grandfather think if he saw how you spent your days?

>>58868147
d...delete this.

Year of the Minix desktop when?

>jojo
>failed
?????????

>>58868063
Time to use macOS

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>>58868147
>What does your life look like OP? What would your grandfather think if he saw how you spent your days?

>>58868063
>Linux has failed

Explain yourself.

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Not just Linux tho.
MacOS is bound to hardware and has come to a point where it forces the ecosystem on you in order to function, windows is impossible to use for anything other than gaymeng and office.
There is no good OS at the moment.
>Inb4 Chrome OS, templeOS, BSD

Weak minded people fall for Linux

Not quite. It's just sitting around biding its time until the post PC era - then it will dominate the PC.

"Linux" is not a thing that can succeed or fail. Linux is a kernel, you can use it or not. No one is forcing you to use it, like Windows.
Unlike MacOS, there's no company behind Linux that makes computers and specifically tailors their version of Linux for their own computers. Which means, no vertical control, no support, no single point of contact, no standard development toolchain, incompatible ABIs, no commercial software partners, no consumer facing brand people recognize.
The closest thing is Chrome OS from Google. I'm not even sure how close the Chromium kernel is to the main line kernel at this point. Maybe that can be considered a fork, which is fine.
The Valve SteamOS and Steam hardware platform could be considered another candidate but they're not very popular yet.

Basically to successfully market a real product or line of products you need one organization pushing a singular agenda, like Apple, Google or Valve. Or you need monopolistic power like Microsoft. Otherwise you end up with mess consumers will simply refuse to deal with. Consumers look for finished products, not mashes of kernels, libraries dependencies and a shocking lack of commercial applications they need to do their jobs.

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>>58868063

how about you just use whatever OS you enjoy? like Linux? use it. like Windows? use it. like MacOS? you're gay but whatever you're into i guess

>>58868147
>>58868645
/thread

>>58869078
I thought the purpose of /g/ was to bash on whatever OS you use and tell you to install another one.

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If you want freedom why don't you become a React OS dev?

>>58868063
Not really, wouldn't trade it for anything on my work machine. Though I'm a server admin so I don't need office software often and even then Libreoffice has done the trick.

>>58869409

Too reactionary

>>58868203
>he hasn't seen how terrible the ratings are on Toonami

>>58868203

kek

>>58868063
True, but all the other alternatives failed even harder, not as a comercial product but as being an OS. They have all become data mining and advertising software with OS features.

>>58871486
The first half is pretty boring.
The second half is the best yet in all three/four seasons.

Meh, we literally just need to wait until Red Hat consolidate everything under Systemd and Gnome.

>>58873759

Red Hat is dying

>>58869181
>I thought the purpose of /g/ was to bash on whatever OS you use and tell you to install gentoo

FTFY

>>58875408
>Red Hat is dying
/thread

>>58875408

How exactly?

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>>58876245

it's not..

>>58871486
>he watches toonami
>he watches anime
>he can not speak or read moon
>he is not apart of manga master race

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>>58868063
Oh yeah, well, you damn well better not be trying to allege that linux has failed in the living room!

>>58876245

They lost all their government contracts under Trump. He's switching everything to Windows server and Windows10.

watcha doin pajeet

freetards lost

>>58868063
1 Rupee has been deposited into your non existent loo

>>58868645
please provide some examples of how windows is impossible to use

>>58881382
Package management is missing and being a Python dev I find it incredibly messy to have a fully functioning environment.

>>58868063
Not exactly. Chrome OS is becoming more and more capable, especially now that it has Android apps. Chromebooks are very popular in schools, so you could say Linux has found success on the desktop in one demographic.

My theory is that Google is slowly evolving Chrome OS to be more and more of a viable desktop OS that could replace Windows for most normies. Now that it has Android apps, I think people can develop apps that are targeted towards Chromebooks. If Chromebooks take off, they'll get more and more software support to do everything most people would need.

these threads are so shit i dont care how many layers of irony you're operating on

>>58881509
That's not use, that'd be development. Give scenarios where it's impossible to use.

>>58883021
Are you literally retarded?

>>58884777
Yes I am. What can you do about it? Hurr durr nothing. So give me examples oh being of superior intelligence, where you can't USE Windows well enough.

>>58868063
Linux? Maybe.
But not OpenSUSE. It's glorious.

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>>58877697
I have steambox in living room

>>58868063
Id say linux is better than ever, ots the best its ever been
I installed linux mint for the first time on a 300 dollar laptop the day before uni started, understood it within 3 hours.
Took it to uni and took all my notes on tomboy, made documents on libre writer and linked them to the tomboy notes.
Got an extra hour of battery life out of the laptop and when i bought a 12 dollar docking station it worked with my monitors at home when i plugged it into that.
Looks better than windows, tasks better than windows, feels better than windows.
Nah im glad its my daily driver now

>>58884954
This.
Linux mint is so cozy. I use it on my daily driver, but my HTPC/seedbox is arch.

>>58883021
He's _using_ windows as a development environment

How dumb are you?

>>58868063

It's time for you to move on instead of projecting your incompetence on other people.

>>58885260
linux mint is the worst distro around and horribly insecure

please stop shilling mint

>>58881559
O don't think Chrome OS will replace Windows in the coming 10 year.

>>58886619
besides being a pain to set up, is there any reason not to shill gentoo?

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>he dosent know about centOS

>>58884825
can't even watch anime on openSUSE

>>58888230
Then install codecs.

>>58868147
you killed me, even though i'm not op

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>>58868063

>>58875408
I'll drink to that.

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>>58868063
>Linux has failed on the desktop.

>>58868645
It's not so much that Apple forces their ecosystem on you so much as that is the largest benefit to using Apple products and owning more than one and actively choosing not to utilize them within the ecosystem together is pretty pointless and stupid.

I hated Apple everything for a very long time. Then I switched cell phone carriers and decided on pure whim to buy an iPhone SE just to see if Apple products were any better now than they were 9 years ago when I last owned an iPod and a Mac. My love for the iPhone was so instant and complete that I found myself *wanting* the ecosystem, so I bought a Mac mini this afternoon. I'm extremely happy with my decision. It's still more than I wanted to pay for a new desktop PC, but I was buying it for the ecosystem.

>>58888414
How salty does one have to be to create this image.

>>58868063
ubuntu, elementary and mint have a chance still

>>58868063
Funny. I use it daily and only boot windows for games, that I hardly ever play.

>>58868147
>What would your grandfather think if he saw how you spent your days?

He would think "Wow, my grandson sure is talented when it comes to using that binary machine"

>>58868573
>when terry discovers that templeos has been infected with cia niggers

>>58889100
Not without thumbnails they don't

>>58889100
The fact that you had to list 3 different PSS is the exact problem that Linux has.
Fragmentation is what is keeping Linux from becoming mainstream, we need to focus all this energy that is being spent in developing a thousand distros into a single, perfectly functioning OS with excellent support and decent UI.
Look at the three OS you cited:
>Ubuntu
Stable, great support, works on all hardware flawlessly but shit UI
>Mint
Excellent UI but outdated by desing
>Elementary
Easy to use, you never need to open a terminal, but gimped and useless for power users

Now merge all three and you get the best OS of the planet

>>58871486
>toonami ratings
>mattering at all
Into the trash it goes

>>58883021
>That's not use, that'd be development.
hmmm, this really activates my almonds

DEAD

>>58889143
So true

>>58888973
5c have been deposited to your iTunes account

>>58888230
Seems like a perk.