What do you think linux OS need to do, to start competing with windows and mac outside the low-end market?
I personally think that the linux OSes, need to develop their WINE more.
Contact hardware manufactures and software developers to ask them to make a Linux version or to have it open source (hardware manufacturers only)
Make it that the main Linux OS, have a universal installing program. Right now its .rpm for fedora and .deb for ubuntu and Debian.
Promoting Linux operating systems through multimedia platforms (IE: tv, radio, ads)
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I use Linux, played with over 150 different open source versions. One down fall is vendor support for the use of wireless connections and software that looks similar to what you can buy and download for Windows and Mac computers. The software issue is one area it really needs to develop on (take a look at Mac Software, it makes the computer). Gimp is one graphics program that needs everything Integrated into only one screen and not a lot of different boxes. Wine really isn’t an issue because I dual boot to which ever system I want to use. I don’t have a need to jump back and forth between two different operating systems.
Will Linux ever replace Windows or Mac, not likely for quite some time. The funny thing is there is all kinds of money to be made developing software for Linux, it is almost an untapped resource.
Linux is good for server computers that don’t require a desktop type of environment to operate and function.
It just needs to be sold preinstalled on more computers. I think the phrase "low-end" is rather meaningless given the power of even "low-end" computers nowadays.
If apple doesn’t have to develop wine, why should Linux need to develop wine?
Wine is a hack. It’s reverse engineered and always playing catch-up. There’s no way Wine is ever going to be a full Windows replacement. It’s a great project, but as long as people are reliant on Windows-only software, they’re going to use Windows. I know plenty of Windows users who won’t switch to Mac even, let alone Linux, because of Windows-only applications.
"Contacting" developers and manufacturers does pretty much nothing. People need to vote with their wallets. If you want Linux distros to succeed as consumer operating systems, you need to buy Linux preinstalled (instead of buying Windows preinstalled and then installing Linux yourself) and then buy hardware peripherals from only those who support Linux (Intel, yes; Broadcom, no).
As soon as manufacturers and companies see "Hey, supporting Linux makes us money," they will support Linux more, and then computer users will see more support and move over, and then there will be more users.
i think it need to change name to windows lol
Why run Linux if you’re going to use WINE anyway?
IMO we need more linux native compatible software.
Also Linux needs to get their act together, there are 1000s of linux distributions and they all suffer from the same, it’s a mess. Things get installed everywhere, there’s no standard.
Linux is not an OS, it’s a kernel and a collection of tools and utilities. Nothing more, nothing less.