Linux has made significant strides, and in 2023, it’s better than ever. However, there are still individuals perpetuating a delusion: that desktop Linux is as user-friendly and productive as its mainstream counterparts. After a few discussions on Lemmy, I believe it’s important to provide a clear review of where Linux falls short as a daily driver for average users.
EDIT: can I just make it clear I don’t agree with this article one bit and think it’s an unhinged polemic?
This can’t be serious.
This one too:
Desktop Linux is a failure because this one specific thing doesn’t work right now in only the Flatpak version of this one specific application. Good thing every Windows app has 100% functionality and works perfectly as soon as it’s released lol.
What if you wanted to use 1pass or LastPass? They work flawlessly as browser extensions.
+1 for bitwarden!
Didn’t even see this part. Sure. Scp, a native Linux tool, has no gui. A sysadmin that can not use a console is no sysadmin. What a piece of bullshit
It’s true, this has been an issue that has stumped developers and sysadmins for decades. They cannot function without WinSCP!
This author be trollin.
Was it some being malicious with ai?
Typical problem of switching OS and keeping the same aproache to using it. In little defence of that statement, Linux file managers don’t really announouce support for ftp and ssh inside them. There usually is Network tab that lists Network drives. Samba and media devices, forgot name of protocol, but ftp and SSH is a bit hidden in address bar.
Like I can’t remember the last time I actually needed an FTP client, but FileZilla was fine on Linux a decade ago, I can’t imagine it’s got worse
I’m just correcting to FTP directly from Nautilus, it’s so user friendly it feels like I’m cheating.
Same with Nemo
Same with Dolphin. It can even remember credentials in a safe manner in KWallet.
I just use Dolphin.
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I mean, sshfs is RIGHT THERE.
I was about to quote the same.
… I mean, when you’re this clueless, maybe don’t put out ‘articles’ for others to read – it’s wasting everyone’s time.
I thought the title of this article was intriguing; because in the Linux community certain aspects of the desktop experience do get hyped; & there’s a tendency in general to sweep various usability issues under the rug, with the unwarranted confidence that we’re already “better than everyone else” in every way; though the article doesn’t address any of those.
Yes this article is absolute trash
Not sure why my post was downvoted so much, just wanted us all to enjoy laughing at its absurdity
…Im in sysadmin and github actions are like, 90% of my job.
And filezilla works like a charm. The fuck are they talking about.
FTP / SFTP and pretty much all of the transfer protocols are already built into every file manager in Linux. Who’s going to need a separate client for that?
I’ve tried software development in Windows multiple times, last time for over a year. It feels like trying to code with broken fingers. WSL makes it tolerable, but I don’t think that counts as developing in Windows anymore.
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