(Title Edit)

So yeah, I am going to start this off saying I use Linux. I love Linux, but the community and others will not let it improve. It’s time to change.

Here’s all the reasons I think Linux will never take off, don’t forget that you can also add input and that I am a human being, so please don’t be angry if you can help it. Just tell me your perspective. I know I will get lots of flack for this, but here we go:

  • Idealism, if Linux was going to take over innately it already would have

  • History (let’s be honest it’s like a discord server if it doesn’t take off all at once it never will)

  • It’s inaccessible (terminals cannot replace everything. I’m talking to you if you say “bloat”)

  • There’s only corporate funding, so they will appropriate it

  • We tolerate people who don’t tolerate others (including the less tech-savvy)

  • Microsoft has way too much power (money)

  • Few people remember RMS started copyleft as a political goal (too many people are uncomfortable challenging their beliefs, so they want Linux to be “apolitical”)

  • No one is doing the political organizing

  • Copyleft is flawed and needs to be improved (here’s a template example https://thufie.lain.haus/NPL.html) [also mind you that there’s a need to prevent corporate appropriation]

  • People worship RMS instead of realizing he alienates women, people with down syndrome, etc.

  • @ksynwa
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    52 years ago

    Linux is pretty popular tho

    • @BratteaOP
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      12 years ago

      I agree :) And I only say this out of love for Linux. People need to hear this.

    • @jactm
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      -12 years ago

      I’m not sue if ypu wrote this out of spite or as issues that need to be solved. If the first, mods should kick you out; if the second, you should probably rethink those arguments… Start from the title. Linux never took off? Linux took off in 1991 and hasn’t stopped growing since… Maybe you mean just the desktop?

      • @ksynwa
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        32 years ago

        DId you mean to reply to me? I am guessing not but wanted to make sure.

        • @jactm
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          32 years ago

          Sorry confused first time on lemmur. It was supposed to be a reply to the main thread

      • @BratteaOP
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        12 years ago

        These are issues that need to be solved.