1. I've never claimed that - you've mistaken me for someone else. Most Linux users think that's very important but I just don't care. What I really care about is a bugs-free stable supported OS which is suitable for running proprietary software for great many years. Linux (on the desktop) is anything but such an OS. RHEL comes close but it's not suitable for the desktop since it contains a lot of stale software and a very old kernel as well which supports only the hardware which is endorsed by RedHat.
2. I don't claim that. That's what StatCounter, NetMarketShare and other traffic analyzers report and I've got zero reasons not to trust them because we have no other reliable instruments of measuring the market share of various operating systems. MacOS also doesn't boast a big market share but it's of a known quality and has a whole lot of proprietary software and is generally considered a mature, stable, well-supported OS. Oh, and software suspend and power saving mode work perfectly in it.
3. ChromeOS is (currently) a laptop only OS which requires a permanent good Internet connection to be usable and also it requires that I buy new hardware which is simply not an option for me since I already have a decent laptop and a desktop PC. Also ChromeOS doesn't contain a lot of software that I need. And also by the 1st world standards I'm fucking poor and broke, so for my entire life I've owned just a single laptop and I upgrade my desktop PC as rarely as humanly possible.
Speaking of what I'm running: on my laptop I've got Fedora 29 and on my desktop I dual boot Windows 7(used only for gaming, e.g. Steam and UPlay) and again Fedora 29.
Now, am I content with Linux? Hell, no. Every DE that I touch contains dozens of bugs (Fedora has the freshest software available, so in theory it must have the least amount of bugs). In the past I wasted my time filing bug reports but maybe a year or two ago I mostly gave up on that seeing that most developers don't give a damn about your bug reports and they are working only on the things they find interesting. Just for fun I recently decided to tell KDE developers that maybe Plasma is not particularly good for the desktop. Their response was that I needed to file seven separate bug reports and they added that most likely they wouldn't have time to fix any of them, IOW they let me know that my attempts would be futile. OK, DEs are DEs and they aren't that critical as generally you can find workarounds and somehow solve your issues. Now what's really interesting is that when I bought my laptop over 3,5 years ago I filed four bugs reports against the Linux kernel. Funnily, three of them are still reproduceable as for Linux 4.20 and obviously not fixed. Not a single comment from the respective Linux maintainers. Linux used to be a toy and remains a toy save for RHEL but RHEL is not a desktop distro and it's not really suitable for that role.
I don't know why I'm writing all of this because I'm sure as hell you will find excuses to everything that's going on and say BS like, "it's free" and "it doesn't spy on you" and I will try counter this BS with the fact that I couldn't care less about spying since you can disable most if not all of it and the fact that Windows OEM license costs less than $50, so it's quite affordable even for the poorest nations on Earth but you will find a dozen more reasons why Windows is ostensibly bad and Linux is ostensibly good the way it is and I'm simply tired of this shit and I just don't care any longer.
What I insist on is that on Phoronix most users claim that Linux is perfect against all the evidence to the contrary (or it has issues but they have nothing to do with Linux) and the same applies to various pro-Windows websites like Neowin however recently I've started noticing that more and more people remove scales from their eyes and start being rational and logical and they start to realize that maybe their emperor doesn't wear clothes but for some reasons this trend has largely gone unnoticed on Phoronix.com
2. I don't claim that. That's what StatCounter, NetMarketShare and other traffic analyzers report and I've got zero reasons not to trust them because we have no other reliable instruments of measuring the market share of various operating systems. MacOS also doesn't boast a big market share but it's of a known quality and has a whole lot of proprietary software and is generally considered a mature, stable, well-supported OS. Oh, and software suspend and power saving mode work perfectly in it.
3. ChromeOS is (currently) a laptop only OS which requires a permanent good Internet connection to be usable and also it requires that I buy new hardware which is simply not an option for me since I already have a decent laptop and a desktop PC. Also ChromeOS doesn't contain a lot of software that I need. And also by the 1st world standards I'm fucking poor and broke, so for my entire life I've owned just a single laptop and I upgrade my desktop PC as rarely as humanly possible.
Speaking of what I'm running: on my laptop I've got Fedora 29 and on my desktop I dual boot Windows 7(used only for gaming, e.g. Steam and UPlay) and again Fedora 29.
Now, am I content with Linux? Hell, no. Every DE that I touch contains dozens of bugs (Fedora has the freshest software available, so in theory it must have the least amount of bugs). In the past I wasted my time filing bug reports but maybe a year or two ago I mostly gave up on that seeing that most developers don't give a damn about your bug reports and they are working only on the things they find interesting. Just for fun I recently decided to tell KDE developers that maybe Plasma is not particularly good for the desktop. Their response was that I needed to file seven separate bug reports and they added that most likely they wouldn't have time to fix any of them, IOW they let me know that my attempts would be futile. OK, DEs are DEs and they aren't that critical as generally you can find workarounds and somehow solve your issues. Now what's really interesting is that when I bought my laptop over 3,5 years ago I filed four bugs reports against the Linux kernel. Funnily, three of them are still reproduceable as for Linux 4.20 and obviously not fixed. Not a single comment from the respective Linux maintainers. Linux used to be a toy and remains a toy save for RHEL but RHEL is not a desktop distro and it's not really suitable for that role.
I don't know why I'm writing all of this because I'm sure as hell you will find excuses to everything that's going on and say BS like, "it's free" and "it doesn't spy on you" and I will try counter this BS with the fact that I couldn't care less about spying since you can disable most if not all of it and the fact that Windows OEM license costs less than $50, so it's quite affordable even for the poorest nations on Earth but you will find a dozen more reasons why Windows is ostensibly bad and Linux is ostensibly good the way it is and I'm simply tired of this shit and I just don't care any longer.
What I insist on is that on Phoronix most users claim that Linux is perfect against all the evidence to the contrary (or it has issues but they have nothing to do with Linux) and the same applies to various pro-Windows websites like Neowin however recently I've started noticing that more and more people remove scales from their eyes and start being rational and logical and they start to realize that maybe their emperor doesn't wear clothes but for some reasons this trend has largely gone unnoticed on Phoronix.com
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