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Edge on Linux
Hey I still use Linux for most of my networking and back office coding. Not to shabby an OS that has been around since DOS and is still free and publicly supported.
Robert_Golobek I use Linux desktop, too, deployed on a dedicated desktop (recreational, testing Solus Budgie) and a dedicated laptop (work-related for network diagnostics/maintenance at a railroad museum where I volunteer). Linux is a great OS, with some limitations.
The primary limitation -- focus on creating endless distros instead of creating an environment in which applications will be more widely developed) is identified by the author of the article I linked in the previous post. I note that Linus Torvalds said the same thing recently, at some length (for him).
I don't expect the perennially predicted "Year of the Linux Desktop" to materialize in my lifetime. Of course, I'm in my mid-seventies, so that's not a high bar to cross.
I prefer FOSS, using Libre Office, Gimp and so on, and my comments about Linux's problems were not intended to trash either Linux or FOSS.