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I agree. It's nice to get attention, but probably not like this. They present a lot of issues that aren't necessarily Linux's fault, but instead the fault of companies and organizations that don't provide proper support for the system.
I also think the usual argument that it's impossible to support Linux because there are so many distros is really not problematic. We don't ask for packages for all distros, not even for all mainstream ones; just give us proper Linux kernel (and X/Wayland and whatnot) support and possibly a package and we'll manage. There's tons of package ports maintained by the community that work rather well on distros that don't have official packages. As a software engineering company, you don't need to provide a package for everyone, one or two is enough for the community to port the rest. That's the beauty of Linux and open systems.
I quit a lot of proprietary apps cold turkey after switching to Linux. I am so thankful for that after seeing this.
Exactly, the biggest issues with Linux are always hardware support. Microsoft was the first to hit it big in the consumer world, so along with their monopolization and the MaRkEt they were cemented as the platform that everything focuses on.
Yeah that argument is shit. Nobody is asking companies to support everything possible. Honestly as long as software is created with actual effort and packaged with .deb and .rpm, the community will figure out the rest. If it's on Linux I've been able to install it on Void regardless of how it's delivered.
The biggest issue though I see in Linux and general FOSS software adoption is capitalism. Companies will never put full effort in a large scale to put capital into development of solutions that make them less money. Until a proletarian state apparatus is implemented, where FOSS is mandated, Linux will never gain widespread adoption. Because let's be honest, FOSS ideals are communist - much to the anger and denial of techbros who bang on about "don't tread on me"
There's truth there for sure, but any sort of mode of production can be taken and used in a different system. Post-Mao China has clearly taken advantage of capitalist means of production but under the guise of a workers state as businesses cannot run in the country without being overseen by the CPC. So in reverse, capitalist entities can take FOSS and use them for their own benefit, especially if the software in question isn't using staunch copy-left licensing like GPLv3.