Re: Why is Linux desktop not popular among non-programmers?

2025-02-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: Let's take an RFID USB card reader, i.e. for ID cards, health insurance cards, bus tickets, etc., where a generic USB driver is of no use. The bus companies, the federal government etc. had bought these things en masse and for a while they were available free of charge on request, including a

Request for check for/confirmation of potential bugs in Debtree

2025-02-03 Thread Renzo de Paoli
Good afternoon. I've been experiencing some issues with debtree on Kubuntu 24.04.1. (debtree v1.1.2, installed via Kubuntu apt) 1. debtree gcc-13-x86-64-linux-gnu:amd64 Aborts with with error message     "gcc-13-x86-64-linux-gnu:amd64" -> "c-compiler-x86-64-linux-gnu" [arrowhead=in

Re: Why is Linux desktop not popular among non-programmers?

2025-02-03 Thread Amit
On Mon, Feb 3, 2025, 9:32 AM Amit wrote: > > > > Sorry if this sounds snarky, but you are basically making a case for how > > the entire linux ecosystem should follow the marketing strategy of > someone > > who is relatively new to the platform and has not contributed much or > > learned much abo

Re: Why is Linux desktop not popular among non-programmers?

2025-02-03 Thread Amit
By the way, I wanted to tell what I was trying to do. My plan was to raise funds for linux desktop(s) from companies and also to convince the governments across the world to adopt linux and get some funds from them too. I had even sent an email to Germany's finance minister to adopt linux for all

Re: Why is Linux desktop not popular among non-programmers?

2025-02-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PPS: On Mon, 2025-02-03 at 17:13 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > https://www.zdnet.de/41548848/auswaertiges-amt-wechselt-von-linux-zurueck-zu-windows/ This is something that also applies to numerous German cities and other authorities. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lis

Re: Why is Linux desktop not popular among non-programmers?

2025-02-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2025-02-03 at 20:49 +0530, Amit wrote: > I had even sent an email to Germany's finance minister to adopt linux > for all the government organizations in Germany. "Federal Foreign Office switches from Linux back to Windows In 2007, the use of Linux was still regarded as a flagship project.

Re: Why is Linux desktop not popular among non-programmers?

2025-02-03 Thread Amit
> PPS: > > On Mon, 2025-02-03 at 17:13 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > https://www.zdnet.de/41548848/auswaertiges-amt-wechselt-von-linux-zurueck-zu-windows/ > > This is something that also applies to numerous German cities and other > authorities. Well, if linux kernel developers had made developin