![]() ![]() Do you have the time, and have you retained the talent, needed to port you custom app to the new toolkit and fix the breakages with each new minor version release? That type of uncertainty has presented a large obstacle for Linux desktop adoption for a long time. Then what of the custom apps you have written or had written relying on Gtk that suddenly started breaking with every new minor version release of Gtk+3. Or the developer for the old reliable app your work-flow depends on - decides to orphan the app because of increasing demands in the real-world for them.Ĭan you image a large corporation dealing with KDE 4.0.4a in May 2008? Or the first 20 releases of Gnome3? When alpha-quality desktop software is put out as a new "release" version, the users are essentially the beta testes. The costs incurred when the handful of people guiding your companies chosen desktop suddenly decide to go in a new direction or port to a new toolkit. No, it's not software cost, it's the retraining and maintenance cost. Over the past 15 years, the reasons have become clear. I've always looked at the issue of why there hasn't been more adoption by business with curiousity. I've used Linux as my desktop for 21 years now. ![]() It's simple.Īnyway, I like Linux, I use Linux but we can't pretend there's a single Linux Desktop to compete with MS.Apple. There Microsoft makes all the decisions (or Apple, as I think there are still people running Macs somewhere) and a programme either runs or doesn't, there's no "if we change this and configure this and put this element there, we can run this other versions". If I recommend a Linux, the moment I need to change or configure it for my wife to run a programme, she'll say she wants Windows. That's the kind of requirements setting that's second nature to a techie but too confusing for non techies. I know I like a Debian derived release for at home (I've run rpm derived ones for work too) and I know I like the Cinnamon desktop or XFCE and I'm not crazy about Gnome 3 and don't like KDE and I'll live with Fluxbox on old machines etc. My wife refuses to use a Linux desktop (but will use her Chrome tablet). I run Mint myself, I have for about a decade. ![]()
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