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Ask Slashdot: Whatever Happened To the 'Year of Linux on Desktop'?
An anonymous reader writes: Investors, enthusiasts, and Linux distro makers have for more than a decade projected that the upcoming year will be the year of Linux on the desktop platform. But we just can't seem to get to that year for some reason. Windows continues to dominate the consumer market. Apple's macOS X is quickly gaining ground among business customers and designers, and is already ahead of Linux. Do you see Linux getting a significant boost in the desktop market in the coming years?
It can be easy until you want to do anything remotely out of the ordinary. I wanted to play my java scrabble game. First the sound wouldn't work because no usb sound worked. Then I fixed it and the sound from java didn't work. It always is like that with linux. There's a million things to hunt down and fix the minute you aren't just using a browser to view the web.
Qt is licensed under the LGPL.
If you dynamically link to the Qt libraries, you can sell your closed-source proprietary products without having to pay for a commercial license or share your source.
If you statically link to the Qt libraries, then you are required to either pay for a commercial license or share your source.
I've had the same kinds of problems with "strange USB devices" on Windows. I've actually gotten spoiled by how well Linux works with USB devices and dealing with Windows is often a jarring reality check.
Don't pretend Windows doesn't have it's problems.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.