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I love Linux, and as a developer, use it as my main os (ubuntu). It is so easy to develop on, and it's package management is superb. I don't use the desktop per
by expaand 14y ago
I love Linux, and as a developer, use it as my main os (ubuntu). It is so easy to develop on, and it's package management is superb. I don't use the desktop per se, that much, and am usually command-line driven.
I have a Mac, and use it for some things, at times. It's nice, for sure, but I love the openness of Linux, even though, of course, there can be many very painful hardware issues (video, sound, etc), all of which I have experienced at one time or another.
I am wondering - I hear Google is working on a "Android desktop". Would that perhaps maybe change things regarding the "Linux desktop" a bit?
- kwijibob 14y agoAndroid desktop might be excellent. However alot of the Android stack is not open source or free software. An Android desktop will be a proprietary desktop built on top of an open source kernel. It might be terrific, but it won't fulfil the dream of a free software OS and desktop.