Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : claw
From : tenser
Date : Thu Apr 21 2022 07:32:43

On 20 Apr 2022 at 10:16a, claw pondered and said...
 
 cl> I feel this is a double edged sword. I would really like to see mass
 cl> adoption, however I feel what stops many people is the sheer mass amount
 cl> of options you have.

Something people continue to miss is that Linux _has_ been
adopted en mass.  Most people probably have at least one
Linux device at home, often without even realizing it.

I think people are conflating that with particular desktop
distributions.  But when people talk about customization and
similar things, they're really mixing things up there.  Some
distributions are more customizable than others, and in
particular, what is being customized?  The filesystem layout?
That's standard.  The user shell and windowing environment?
I suppose that's kind of true, but much of the system will
use whatever shell is installed as /bin/sh to, e.g., invoke
system services, and most systems these days let you install
a command interpreter.  For graphics, you're either using X11
or Wayland.  I guess you can select your window manager, but
that's just window dressing (no pun intended).  What's left?
Futzing about with PulseAudio and ALSA and alternatives just
isn't that interesting anymore.

So aside from superficial customization of the user interface,
I'm not seeing what _most_ people are customizing.  Most people
are not hacking the kernel.  Most people aren't hacking the
services that start when the machine boots.  Most are just
playing around with userspace stuff, which is fine, but pretty
mellow.

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