The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love

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[–]raven9 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

If you really look into it you'll see Linux was deliberately designed to be a crap user experience by it's core developers (the NSA) so it would not become a serious competitor to Windows domination of the consumer PC OS market.

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This is the dumbest thing I've read all day. Linux itself, along with the standard set of GNU utilities is miles ahead of Windows in both security and usability, and always has been. The desktop environments that provide windows/mac-like interaction are made by many different teams with vastly different goals and have nothing to do with the NSA

[–]raven9 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Whatever. You clearly have no clue what you are talking about but sure, believe what you want. Oh and that security you mention? Did you mean SELinux? You might want to look up which US Government agency is credited with developing it. Hint: It has 3 letters and the first one is N.

Linux is a bullshit user experience by design and practically every office and every business that tried to switch their operations to use Linux found that out the hard way and had to switch back to using windows. Linux has no proper documentation and no proper support and the vast majority of Linux code is contributed by the NSA much of it covertly. They are known to have tried to insert backdoors into linux at least three times and they have code running in the linux kernel to this day.

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Lmao "you have no idea what you are talking about" says the guy arguing that an open source project that can be built and audited by anyone at any time is somehow less secure than a proprietary operating system.

And no btw, I'm not talking about SElinux, I'm talking about Linux itself. Interested to hear what specific part of the "user experience" of Linux you think is bullshit by design.