Who CARES about winning the desktop right now? Beside, Linux has won every other space. I expect that eventually it will win the desktop too. Microsoft finally admitted defeat in the browser wars and will adopt Chrome for the next major release of Edge. Can the desktop be all that far behind?
1) Horrible font rendering?!? I have far more trouble with that issue on Windows 10 than I do on any Linux desktop environment that I've tried. Or have you ever tried to run a dual desktop with different sized monitors that happen to share a common resolution? Linux? No problem. Win10? Not so much.
2) Inconsistent UIs: Not sure what you mean here. Inconsistent between desktop environments? Yes, that as a strength, not a weakness. It's a side effect that we have lots of choice. This is an inherent feature of FLOSS.
Inconsistent between apps? And how is this different from apps written for OS/X or Windows? For heaven's sake, Windows has become downright schizophrenic with the heavy emphasis on treating it as a tablet app with poor support for desktop apps. Yet that's still how the vast majority of people interact with it.
3) Let me rewrite your last objection to something a little closer to the truth; there are /some/ jobs for which there is a lack of decent alternatives for /some/ applications.
I have been a dual booter for about 25 years at this point. The only reason that I keep a Windows partition around these days is for gaming. Even there it's much less of an issue than it used to be. About half my library of AAA titles has a Linux version now. Everything else that I do I do comfortably in Linux. Web browsing, writing, experimentation with enterprise level tools like Docker and Kubernetes, etc.
4) The truly wonderful thing about an open garden is that anyone can come play. There are a TON of desktop environments out there to choose from. Just pick one and enjoy. :)
Personally, I've settled on xfce. It's lightweight, it stays out of my way, and over the years I've found that people who had to borrow one of my computers weren't instantly lost trying to figure out how to use it.
Don't like choice? Feel free to adopt OS/X or Windows.
So far I have yet to successfully connect a worker node with the master. Tried a while back with Pi 2s and now using Pi 4s. No luck with either one although I was able to resolve an initial problem on the Pi 4s that had had me stumped on the Pi 2s.
I wish I could figure out why! Any idea where I can go to start a conversation with some knowledgeable people!
P.S. Thanks for letting me know that it's really possible! All of the leads that I have found so far were to install older versions of k3s. :(
@Andrez, let me answer you this way:
Who CARES about winning the desktop right now? Beside, Linux has won every other space. I expect that eventually it will win the desktop too. Microsoft finally admitted defeat in the browser wars and will adopt Chrome for the next major release of Edge. Can the desktop be all that far behind?
1) Horrible font rendering?!? I have far more trouble with that issue on Windows 10 than I do on any Linux desktop environment that I've tried. Or have you ever tried to run a dual desktop with different sized monitors that happen to share a common resolution? Linux? No problem. Win10? Not so much.
2) Inconsistent UIs: Not sure what you mean here. Inconsistent between desktop environments? Yes, that as a strength, not a weakness. It's a side effect that we have lots of choice. This is an inherent feature of FLOSS.
Inconsistent between apps? And how is this different from apps written for OS/X or Windows? For heaven's sake, Windows has become downright schizophrenic with the heavy emphasis on treating it as a tablet app with poor support for desktop apps. Yet that's still how the vast majority of people interact with it.
3) Let me rewrite your last objection to something a little closer to the truth; there are /some/ jobs for which there is a lack of decent alternatives for /some/ applications.
I have been a dual booter for about 25 years at this point. The only reason that I keep a Windows partition around these days is for gaming. Even there it's much less of an issue than it used to be. About half my library of AAA titles has a Linux version now. Everything else that I do I do comfortably in Linux. Web browsing, writing, experimentation with enterprise level tools like Docker and Kubernetes, etc.
4) The truly wonderful thing about an open garden is that anyone can come play. There are a TON of desktop environments out there to choose from. Just pick one and enjoy. :)
Personally, I've settled on xfce. It's lightweight, it stays out of my way, and over the years I've found that people who had to borrow one of my computers weren't instantly lost trying to figure out how to use it.
Don't like choice? Feel free to adopt OS/X or Windows.