Maybe I am (though innactive at the moment) a GNOME Developer?
Good, so you are a Gnome developer who isn't even using Linux for the desktop. Sounds like creator of Gnome himself to me (Miguel de Icaza) who complained how Linux isn't good and admitted he himself doesn't use it for the desktop. I respect contribution to FOSS, but I don't find his rants reasonable. Anyway, I find KDE Plasma 5 to be way better than Gnome. Give it a try if you didn't yet.
Do you trully believe I don't know what is the status of the GNOME Desktop?
Linux desktop is not limited to Gnome. There are better options (see above).
My academical background is in Marketing Management. If you want to take down the industry leader and claiming success based on 'demonstrated by multiple people ditching Windows', I can only say one thing: The naivette is strong within you.
It seems, your management background fails you in this case, since it turns you into defeatist. Inaction is not the way to fix things, and you are proposing exactly that.
Do you really think that people who have been formated for years on the Windows paradigm will just change easilly?
Yes, that's exactly what happens. Majority of people don't care what's installed on their computer. They don't even know if it's Windows or not. They just want to perform some tasks using it. That's all. MS managed to manipulate manufacturers to preserve their desktop monopoly by requiring them to sell only computers with Windows (since only a small minority of users is going to install other operating systems). But if that could change, their monopoly would be seriously undermined. MS clearly admitted this fact in the past, so you don't need to go far for confirming this point.
Trust me, Linux hasn't reached the point where it's easy for everyone to use
I'm using Linux daily, and can see what it reached first hand. I personally installed it for various non technical people who perfectly use it for their desktop needs and prefer it to Windows. You on the other hand aren't even using Linux for the desktop yourself. So do you base your opinion on 15 year old issues you encountered?
pple currently has the best filesystem orientes for Desktop, it's called Apple File System
Their current filesystem is pretty bad which Apple themselves admitted. They even started making a new one recently to replace it, to catch up to all the innovation accumulated in ZFS and BTRFS which are years ahead of anything Apple made. Of course Apple had to reinvent the wheel, since NIH syndrome is in their blood already. So that's expected.
I don't follow KDE but within GNOME
I highly recommend you to look into KDE. It's literally the best DE there is now for Linux.
But you are aware that wayland only works with open source drivers...
Not a problem in practice, since AMD hardware is getting pretty good full OpenGL 4.5 Mesa support this year. Nvidia is kind of trying to sort it out for their closed driver, and they had extensive discussions on this year XDC. Not sure if you followed them. Here is a post which discusses some of it and has relevant links (in comments): https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2016/09/to-eglstream-or-not/
Mate you are talking to someone that played a lot on Linux, at least since the early 2000's. Thats something like in the last 15 years.
Then take a look at Linux gaming today. It's way better than even in the Loki days. There is real gaming renaissance on Linux now. So give it a try.
You are 100% wtrong.
No, I'm not. And I can tell you from the first hand experience. Take some relatively old laptop, and try installing new Windows on it. Hehe, good luck to make it work and not hitting massive amount of missing drivers. With Linux on the other hand they would just work. That happened to me multiple times when I helped people with their old computers. So I'll stand by what I said. Windows support for hardware is abysmal, because they expect you to change it for each new version of Windows.
That was an example. Do you know from a developer point of view what 'cherry picking' is? Nice cherry picking.
Yep, so nice that GOG has a good business fixing such issues for old games. I guess cherry picking gives them a decent harvest ;D
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@nmarques Nope, he didn't played it yet if I got that right from all the conversation (which I recognized^^) on the forum
No, I haven't played TW3 yet, since it's not playable on Linux. There is no promised native version which CDPR failed to make, and Wine is still catching up with DX11 support. Not sure if CDPR will ever deliver on their promise (I pretty much lost confidence in them), but Wine will surely eventually reach a good level of usability for TW3, as Wine developers themselves said.
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