I have a new phone and finding new applications is just a time consuming nightmare. Millions of apps is just too damn many, most belong in the trash and their authors know it. Granted linux repos can have their share of problems, but I genuinely think the google and apple stores that (used to) pride themselves on how many apps they have need to take some time to reflect on how much of it is crap. Even for the simplest damn thing I can spend an hour wading through installing/uninstalling utterly useless spamware.
#PLAY FREECIV SOFTWARE#
They are really terrible compared to Google Play or the App store, and little more than a GUI hiding the package manager, only making a terrible solution for software management worse.įor a company that prides itself on search, I absolutely despise the google play app store. Desktop Linux could be fixed to be commercially viable in a year, but there’s no way to put a business man in control to do so.
#PLAY FREECIV WINDOWS 10#
So here we are with Windows 10 and no real competition on x86, while Apple looks to be switching to their own custom ARM chips for everything soon.
Even if one Linux distro abandons it and does something like create their own SDK (including GUI and any desktop APIs) for all other Linux desktops to use, none of the other Linux distros will follow. The fact that Android, iOS, and OSX are successful is because of design decisions that Linux won’t abandon, primarily what’s going on with package managers as a fix for non existent problems such as not wasting disk space in the era of 3TB hard drives for less than $100 USD. They are really terrible compared to Google Play or the App store, and little more than a GUI hiding the package manager, only making a terrible solution for software management worse. These in particular have a search that’s total garbage where you can type in the name of the software and it still refuses to find it until you know the exact package name, or returns multiple results and doesn’t tell the user the difference between them. I do take particular issue with the “Highly curated software catalog” point though. The general opinion is still the same, use it for a few weeks and then practically everyone goes back to Windows or Mac. This fosters the kind of thinking that prevents you from being locked into a platform or ecosystem too easily.Ĭome on now, there are an endless amount of articles like this about Linux. Regardless of any preferences you think you might have, assuming you have the means to do so, it is always a good idea set some time apart every now and then and take a good look at the system you’re using, possible alternatives, and how difficult it would be to switch. Here are five-plus reasons why you could easily wind up preferring Linux instead of Windows as the default operating system on your desktop or laptop.
#PLAY FREECIV INSTALL#
Had enough of Windows 10’s hassles? Unless you plan to install Windows 7, which is going to lose support from Microsoft on January 14, 2020, or have the cash to spare for an Apple device, there aren’t many other options for a computer operating system except some flavor of Linux.Īlthough you can expect a learning curve when changing platforms, Windows users who are curious about the state of Linux for mainstream computing might come away surprisingly satisfied after finding a suitable distribution for their machine and spending time getting familiar with the new environment.
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