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Honestly, I can't see how GNU-Linux is going to ever replace something like Windows.

The core issue is that Linux wasn't designed around regular consumers but rather around pros/techies

This is why Android or even ChromeOS were able to penetrate consumer markets far more while being based on the same Linux kernel

Google prioritized easy, intuitive UI that any person can pick up easily without any prior knowledge

no terminal commands, no need to understand file-systems, no config-changes, no debugging errors

Apple has proved this is as crucial as the quality of the kernel/OS itself




I haven't needed to use the terminal at all with Fedora for years.

What actions are you doing that require a terminal?


quite a bit actually

making two displays work properly with correct aspect ratio and refresh rate

buggy UI components that needed restart from terminal

Many features aren't fully accessible from the UI AFAIK

I actually tend to interact with Linux machine mostly via terminal because UI is so unreliable from my experience

If there's one thing that Linux does very poorly IMO, it is GUI (technically desktop environments but you get the point)


I can only discuss one point, since there is really only one you made.

> making two displays work properly with correct aspect ratio and refresh rate

What was missing from the Gnome display settings? I have all those options.




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