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Comment by carlosjobim

1 day ago

Linux doesn't have much in the way of quality apps for people who aren't programmers, server administrators, or gamers.

Most people want to get productive work done with their computer, and OS X has top tier apps for every need possible.

No good e-mail app, no good office apps, no good calendar app, no good invoicing app, no good photo editing app, no good designer app, etc

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TheDong  19 hours ago

> people who aren't programmers

> No good e-mail app, no good office apps, no good calendar app, no good invoicing app ...

People who aren't programmers use Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Stripe Invoicing, etc for those various use-cases.

Firefox and Chrome work just fine on Linux, so Linux has all the apps people actually use these days on computers.

  • carlosjobim  11 hours ago

    The only people I meet who voluntarily use web apps in their day to day are Linux users who have convinced themselves that it is good enough because there aren't any good native apps on Linux.

    And then you of course have corporate, who will not switch from Windows.

    Nobody will voluntarily spend all day working within Gmail or Google docs.

    You also conveniently cut out photo editing and design in your quote.

    Edit: Also I wonder if all you server-admins, programmers and gamers would have switched to Linux if your only option was to do your work or gaming within a laggy and inadequate web-app? But you want other people to suffer that.

    • sofixa  5 hours ago

      > The only people I meet who voluntarily use web apps in their day to day are Linux users who have convinced themselves that it is good enough because there aren't any good native apps on Linux.

      Funny, there are whole companies, pretty big ones at that, that run entirely on the G Suite. Regardless of OS.

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