This video gives the Top 5 Reason Linux isn’t more popular among the masses. I break down the current and past market share. I then go into the reasons for each point on why Linux isn’t growing. .
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Also Linux might not work on desktop/laptops with nvidia gtx graphics cards.
many medical softwares and equipments are not compatible with linux
4:43 and 4 years later, he has become the very thing that he swore to destroy.
Linux needs to make a iconic look. Or at least get rid of bad looking environments. Cinnamon looks like a cheap version of windows like a toy. If they make KDE standard that would be good. I mean I know you can modify them but Im talking about STANDARD.
About neckbeards – inflow of new users would counteract this.
1. Money
Windows is much less expensive for desktop system integrators …who provide support.
Every other reason is part of that.
Linux is the most popular OS in the world.
Most of the service side of the internet runs it. And its powerful core is (mostly) hidden underneath the extremely popular, but limited and lackluster Android "OS".
Most people don't know where their data is, let alone how to secure it and/or install an operating system.
I did some distrohopping to check out other distributions.
I tried switching over to GIMP from Photoshop about a year back after playing around with GIMP a few years ago – and holy crap. For some reason, they had decided to make the latest GIMP's interface as counter-intuitive as they possibly could. After struggling with it for a few days, I was like, "nah."
Linux is a kernel. Do you mean GNU/Linux?
Among all reasons stated here, as an "average" user (but still, MD in STEM), I don't like to use Linux based OS… Tried on several occasions (and today too, 2 versions – Xubuntu and Zorin). And guess what… Xubuntu stuck at installation…, Zorin stuck at Wine installation… All that 4hr work ended with Windows image restoration :). Most people use computers as a tool to do their job, most people use it to surf on the web. nobody cares for command line, nobody cares how stuff works. And they don't have to! When you got to a doctor you don't ask him how he will perform this or that and why. You will just come, he will give you treatment, and you will happily go home. When you drive a car, you sit in it, put key, turn it on. SIMPLE. You don't open hood, check valve distances, check belt tensions, check injections… you just sit, turn key and viola, off you go. Just a simple program installation is waaaay simpler in Windows environment – double click, next, next and DONE. If linux wanna have desktop users, AVERAGE ones, it must become simpler. Very few amount of people will accept complexity of it. AD by market share (<0,9% lol, we see that). It is a tool, to make things easier.
Hi bro. I am Average user. I am chosing from (debian 11, manjaro. Fedora 35) what you think i will try first. What you suggest?
I just switched to linux i am a gamer mainly and i am not afraid to learb programa from scratch but the problems epic games bring me (i mostly play there due to havibg over 200 games) steam work really well or even better than windows i feel thought
I was, like millions of others in the country where I live, forced into computer use for reasons that cannot be divulged . I built my first and subsequent machines as branded machines were way beyond my purchasing power.. At that time ’95 was on the way out and ’98 was what was being installed left right and center. I found ’98 a real torture with the ridiculously designed partitioning, and formatting process . Windows xp proved to be an answer to everyone’s prayer and remains to this day the world’s most user friendly OS. Anyone with a modicum of ordinary intelligence and skill is able to install and use this Rolls Royce of operating systems. With xp becoming obsolete, I have been searching for the next os . Windows 7 was the first step towards the coming user unfriendly os’s . I have been trying ,without success to find information detailing the installation process of a beginner version of Linux. Could you be kind enough to give me a link or links to a video or pdf or published book or booklet suitable for a total beginner Linus user? Thank you.
I've owned a few digital cameras (including a Nikon) and the software packaged or recommended (in Windows) always sucks.
My guess is that Linux advanced users are living in a buble. Here is why.
All, i mean all the explanations found on â€Ask Ubuntu†given are NOT for beginners.
-Trying to understand how to be able to write on USB stick â€you're not the owner", again, explanations are terrible complicated.
Why not a simple right click allow me to enable writing on disk ?
– Mouse wheel scroll speed is too low, guess what, explanations given, are not only complicated, but noone was able to give me the solution when i asked that on forum. Is that so hard to put wheel speed option in Settings?
– I have new laptop (Lenovo), which by the way is not compatible with Linux Mint and i want to preserve the battery, again explanations can not be used for beginners.
(Titus, in your presentation you forgot to mention this problem of explanations not suitable for beginners.)
I just can not recomend Linux to any friends. Windows try to "help" users move on another platform, but so does Linux.
Linux just don't care about newcomers, in 2021 it keeps being so unfriendly to them.
Linux needs a few huge companies going "ok let's go all in on linux".
Putting money into, spreading it as preinstalled, hiring programmers responsible for various areas.
But then linux would change.
I think many linux geeks want it to stay as an interesting underdog that never gets big
I think Microsoft may have torpedoed many new Linux converts when they provided free upgrades to Windows 10 back in 2015. Microsoft also made it very clear for the longest time that Windows 10 was going to be the final version of Windows. Why make the switch to an unfamiliar operating system when the one that's installed on your computer will never need upgrading and updates would be provided for it indefinitely? The announcement of Windows 11 and its steep hardware requirements might be enough to convince users to finally switch over.
With windows 11 forcing people to buy new computers i forsee an increase in linux market share
People hate inconvenience , but people hate being forced to pay money even more
A lot of PC gamers with 7700Ks will probably do the same now that Linux is so much better for gaming
it's kinda impressive how leaving out one small detail puts a completely different spin on numbers. Actually, the "linux market share" is closer to 70-80%… on actual servers we can see more than 50%, and on IoT devices pretty much everything runs linux. And then there is the mobile sector: close to 90% simply because underneath Android is Linux…
i know this video is a couple years old but the subject is still relevant so it's worth commenting on. the points being made in this video are all valid ones which if correct would remove some of the major barriers stopping Linux's growth unfortunately, to correct even just one of those issues, Linux and everything Linux stands for would be destroyed. marketing, support, standardization, those are all things done by corporations, corporations whole reason for existence is profit, the only way to create profit is by having complete control over something, there is no way to profit off of something that is given away free. Linux was created for the people by the people and we need to make sure that bottom feeding cesspool corporations like google and microsoft are never allowed to get their greedy life sucking tentacles on it, no matter what!!!
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I believe that's the thing, Linux is naturally not for the uninterested. Unlike Windows or Mac, who are commercially and influentially dominant are able to dangle their systems on people who are newly born into the virtual world. Linux is rarely the standard for students and newcomers, almost all those who switched to Linux must have a certain degree of interest which unfortunately the majority of the populace does not.
We can however, recommend Linux to users who are not chained to any working standard such as Grandmas/Grandpas, writers and etc. Who's working application has a just as good or even better alternative in the Open Source world. But as for those who work in offices, students who are specifically required to use a proprietary software. They are chained onto those and cannot make the switch. The rest just doesn't care, let's be real. Switching to Linux was never easy (for the norm), Seriously, I was an interested user who struggled the first two months (my whole vacation) just to know how bootloaders work! Let alone people who have less interest and are less likely to take on the effort.
1.64% seems unusually high.
Over the years, I've installed at least half a dozen Linux distros, as well as Desktop BSD and Solaris. I've spent most of my time with Ubuntu. Here are my top reasons for removing these OSes and focusing on Windows:
1. Drivers – could never get my Canon printer to work
2. Drivers – joystick and game controllers
3. Drivers – no support for my nVidia graphics card
4. Games – Linux games are beyond bad.
5. Time – wasting time searching the web for solutions to Linux problems
Essentially, I decided that since all the games I play run on Windows, there's no point in having two OSes installed. I had to choose, and Linux lost.
Request a follow up video: why is Linux 95% (give or take a few % points) of the server market…
There is nothing better then using your Terminal , putting fish in it and power line . Linux is not just free or secure it is making your computer work with you and sometimes it is frustrating but at the end of the day there is always satisfaction on making something work . But if Linux had that ecosystem it will certainly make it streamline.
When you’re 'into computers' you think the rest of the world is and take as much interest as you do. My wife has a laptop she uses for storing photos, playing Candy Crush going on Facebook and eBay/Amazon. No matter how much I try to persuade otherwise, laptop shopping with her is ''The cheapest will do'' and the cheapest carries Windows. Also my Ubuntu, like the vast majority of people's, is on an old Windows machine, did anyone strike a point off Windows and add it to Linux?
As an aside is the Google Chrome OS counted as Linux? Though it flies in the face of what Linux stands for it is based on the kernel. As a newbie I’m finding the whole Chrome OS thing confusing as I admit to hating Google even more than Windows.
i mean i use arch and librewolf shows websites that im using windows10 32bit lol
Only problem for me as others say is gaming. Now, it wouldn't be a problem now that Steam play is developing, but my GPU r older GPUs aren't supported. Other than that, loving linux.
Linux is crap.
Install needs to find Windows drives volume names
The argument “I’ve already paid for Photoshop†applies much more fundamentally: If somebody buys a new computer from the store, and that computer has Windows on it, then they know that the price of Windows was embedded somewhere in the price. They’ve already paid for Windows, so they might as well use it.
You need computers in stores, with Linux and only Linux on them, at a lower price than the equivalent Windows hardware and a clear support path. (Presumably, it would have to be some flavor of Ubuntu or Mint.)
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And here is another one. Some programs will work in Linux Mint but not very well. They will have one fault in Cinnamon and in XFCE a completely different bug. And these sorts of things must be a nightmare for program developers.
We need some good Linux exclusives.
You forgot the most important reason: People use the OS the computer comes pre installed with.
The vast majority of users couldn't care less what operating system they use. They buy a computer and the operating system is just there. People are not interested in installing their own operating system. If you go to Bestbuy or some other store that sells computers, your choices are going to be Windows, Mac, or Chrome.
Linux is not for consumer, it's good for enterprises specially redhat server distribution.