@LinuxAndYarn @aral At a quick look there's some API...

@LinuxAndYarn @aral At a quick look there's some API calls to Windows that are going to be extremely platform specific and are pretty crucial to operation. So, no, I guess not.

(Insert my rant about how Linux on the desktop has been "just about ready for most users, just another year or two" since roughly 1994. I've given up waiting.)

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@MichaelTBacon I trialed Linux about two years ago for a year and, even as a fully abled person, it was a complete uphill battle and a struggle fighting my system over small paper cuts and tiny deficiencies. I’ve always felt it was almost there, but still not quite there, yet.

There are great developments all the time, but it’s always too little too late. The fragmentation is a bug and a feature simultaneously.

@LinuxAndYarn @aral

19 February at 18:02 | Open on mastodon.online

Rachel Rawlings

@apollon @MichaelTBacon I've been using Linux for over 20 years, and have spent most of them wishing that gnome and KDE could get it together amongst themselves to have a common UI library for developers to define interfaces that the rendering engines could just be skins on top of. So I do understand the pain

19 February at 18:29 | Open on mastodon.social

Γιάννης Εκελδεκερές

@apollon I think this is a matter of what you are used to. I have been using some flavor of Unix (mostly linux recently) as my desktop for about 20 years and I am extremely uncomfortable when I have to use Windows. That being said, I understand why people find it inaccessible. @MichaelTBacon @LinuxAndYarn

19 February at 18:40 | Open on mathstodon.xyz