The Problems With The Linux Desktop.

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• Of course these are my own opinions, some of it is probably wrong or outdated, but the more funding the better for linux and the desktop honestly 🙂

  Also i would like to see what your thoughts are on funding in the linux world 😛

• I was listening to the video in the background and started panicking when audio issues started

• Isnt the point of a foundation to give money to people who needs it? Aka project that dont get attention. Everything they are founding already have massive support from big tech?? What is going on here?

• the issue with codecs on davinci resolve:
  on windows, microsoft pay tons of money to licence codecs, and embed then in windows, apple does the same with macOS, on linux… good luck with that, who gonna pay to distribute codecs on a free system that people might download tons of times and never give a cent?
  since distros wont, the other option would be davinci do that… yeah very unlikely, so only the pro version support some codecs on linux.

• Even Microsoft doesn’t spend much on their “desktop”. They just dress up the old stuff a bit and add a few features. Win 11 isn’t much different from Win 10. But there will be less privacy and more telemetry.

• I do not think every piece of software should be free or even open source. The guts from the os, drivers, apis, etc… yes those should be free and open source since there are incentives from many companies to fund them or make contributions because they are going to use them for their projects.

  But specific apps should be paid or maybe some functionality free and you pay for the premium version or have some way of monetization. But that means they should be privative since if they are open source anybody can fork them.

  I love the ideology behind free and open source buy maybe is not for every project. Bottles should be a paid app for example =)

• There are a few problems with the Linux desktop environment; it looks dated, and programs never seem to scale correctly.

• Spend .5% on desktop environments!

• Why does your sign say lo-fi coffee?

• I honestly think the Linux Foundation and most of the other Foundations in open source is a Money Laundering/Tax write off for Corporate Silicon Valley. Really most stuff put into the Kernel is submitted by 3rd parties, Linus looks it over and plugs it into the next Kernel update. That 2 percent is his salary and maybe a handful of devs that work directly under him.

• Complete speculation I don't know how this works right, but I feel like a functioning desktop and working software is a large gatekeeper for a somewhat average consumer who would consider an alternative operating system, and when you have someone like Microsoft who likely has massive pull on the board, they clearly don't want that level of competition, so the incentive is likely lower at least from them to fund that sort of thing. Not saying everyone on the board is like that and its likely much more complex than even I'm speculating, but its plausible.

• I would transition fully to Linux if ray tracing performance and rasterization gaming performance was up to par. I like the linux desktop better than windows, but that’s the thing holding me back from fully switching, I also have an issue of distro hopping as well, which I need to fix

• linux software need to give us a way to easily buy the respective software if they want to improve, preferably something that doesn't take a cut of that money, not just donate
  1$ every month by all of it's active users adds up, and that is the minimum of minimum

• chrome and ublock origin in 2024?
  this man really likes the adrenaline

• I Cant See Any Problem…

• The Linux Foundation is Linux only in name. It's a group of corporations that joined together to fund development that address their interests. One of those interests happens to be the Linux kernel. They decide what to do with their money and only answer to themselves. I don't like it but it makes sense, they do whatever they want with their money.

• do you know of some wallpaper engine-like software? that's the only thing holding my wife of getting rid of windows

• So what would increase the funding??

• Igot banned off a Linux fan group we have a bunch of snow flakes in are community

• Blackrock! yeah all of those members are horrible looking. Getting their foot in the door for further control and power.

• I donate for the sofware I use. KDE included. I don't believe in donating to those big foundations where the big corpo's are in control. I get it, those corpo's have their own agenda and seeing for example the strides made in the cloud, I see the progress there. But it isn't the progress we need. So that's why I tend to donate directly to the devs who are developing in these areas. Oh yeah, Valve gets my donations in form of game purchases. That's a bit of a different situation.

• KDE has to make something like Thunderbird donating site and ask sometimes for donations

• Windows users are never going to migrate across, till Linux can get just the basics right HDR on Gnome for example.

  Why move when they have that already on Win 10/11

• Individual devs from Red Hat and Valve did a great job on making desktop linux more appealing. Can't say the same about the linux foundation though.

• Linux has come a very long way, there is no doubt about it, but there is still a barrier for the average user, one argument that my friends consistently throw my way is that they dont want to switch to something that objectivly provides worse performance for their top end hardware. For examepl with the new ghost of tsushima, a friend of mine also has a 4090 and he gets around 30fps more than me at 4k with the same settings, now of course we could argue that other games perform better on linux but thats not really the point hes making. Its a shame but i am hopeful that as time goes on it will close the gap.

• yeah, linux foundation should be pushed to spend more money on the kernel.

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