This is exactly the “popular => bad” mentality that needs to die. Good products are good—and perhaps more importantly, bad products are bad—irrespective of their popularity. Linux is a masterpiece as a result of millions of hours of thoughtful and rigorous engineering, not the absence of its wide adoption on desktop. Windows is a dumpster fire as a result of millions of hours of reckless code vomit, not its ubiquity on desktop. See also: the Android operating system you know and (if I had to guess) love.

[+] nexguy@lemmy.world -9 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I use windows and it runs prefectly fine for me so I never said it would get bad... just become more like windows.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Like Windows, how? An operating system has dozens of properties that could be "like Windows", please specify.

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

Windows used to be alright/tolerable like 3 operating systems ago, each new version takes features away and brings new bugs that are more and more annoying in their attempt to get a slice of Apple's closed garden pie. Their auto sign in feature has caused me SO MANY headaches when trying to sign in with a different user

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There will certainly be versions of Linux that will become more like Windows. I mean we're seeing it already with Ubuntu. Android has been that way for years. But there will also always be community-made FOSS alternatives. And Ubuntu development will continue to trickle down to other OSs.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

It already is. It's becoming increasingly GUI-centric and technologies like Flatpak are blurring the differences between distros. (FWIW I think this is a good thing)