Right now their page https://upgradefromwindows.com/ just redirects to https://www.fsf.org/windows which has a wall of text and an infographic. Even I, who doesn’t have windows and will never reinstall it unless forced, clicked away from the page within 5 seconds. The FSF desperately needs help with marketing and design, plus it would be great to have tooling for brain-dead linux installation (no, find distribution, backup, put linux on a USB-stick, reboot, hit some button to get into the BIOS, select “USB stick”, reboot, click through installation, find alternative software, is not brain-dead).
Linux still needs a lot of UX cleanup. Everyone has different ideas of how to make a desktop work and none of them are compatible with eachother.
Dependency hell is still a problem for some mainstream distros, especially since there are literally a half dozen package formats in use.
Arch is only easy if you actually know how linux works - if you’re a mundy, you will be lost trying to get and keep an Arch system running.
Don’t overestimate the tech abilities of the mundy pc user. The simple act of balena etching a usb stick may as well be brain surgery for most people, and they will have to do more complex fixes to keep their stuff running in Linux.
Make a proper accounting software replacement to Quickbooks that doesn’t require a linux degree to operate.
Integrate VR support apps into the distro pipeline. This is still so broken even the tech savvy may find it’s a roll of the die if it works.
Fix the tables in Libreoffice - converting Word documents is a nightmare if table formatting is involved.
Waydroid needs to integrate better as an app, and not just be a screen hogging full screen app. Also, brain surgery just to get Waydroid setup, and on an ancient version of Android at that (11).
Fix the thing with XFCE where it shows the desktop screen before locking it after waking up from sleep. Ths is several seconds of laptop security compromising peekaboo and it is a surprise it still isn’t fixed yet!
The Archiving app in LXqt and KDE I think as well has inverted option “preserve folder path when extracting” which should extract folders and subfolders in the archive when checked but nope, it dumps all the files without any folders wherever you extract it, which breaks a lot of things.
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and so on…
I agree with most of that, I think VR should be somewhere far below “fancy app launch animations” considering how niche it still is.
Chicken and egg. Also, do we need fancier launch animations? This eats into memory and performance. I already disable animations in Windows for this reason.
My point was VR has been the next big thing for at least 35 years. Dedicating resources to native support for VR is a waste, a bigger one than fancy animations.
In the past couple years, it’s improved radically since the “last 25 years” of that 35 year mark.