Comment Income Tax applications (Score 1) 243
Of course it doesn't help that there is no standard distro of linux that software developers can support. There's no standard c library version that every linux distro includes, that developers can compile against, and then know it will work. Linux is more like an appliance OS then a desktop OS. That's why they all compile themselves, the additional software you can install. Such a waste of resources. It should be a compile once, and then can run on every linux distro.
This also mostly prevents proprietary software from being included, except for the proprietary software like drivers from nvidia, who need to take the time to make it work. But this is because it is used in the server space, where Linux is huge.
In the desktop space, not to much. And if you bring up the steam deck, that is clearly made for games.
The biggest thing is that Linux still doesn't have a working clipboard. With wayland developers, they are saying that the desktop environment developers have to implement it. But desktop environment developers say that wayland developers have to implement it because that's how xorg and x11 did it. But the way xorg and x11 did it was awful because if you copied something to the clipboard from an application that was opened, you lost the clipboard results if you closed the applications. Windows doesn't work this way, neither does Mac OS. I can copy from an open application to the clipboard, close the application, and still be able to paste it.