How do we make Linux more popular and widely used for all users?

Bundle it with laptops.

1. don't be a dick to newbies
2. don't use the word newbies (do as i say not as i do)
3. Help in a helpful way (no rtfm)
4. Bundle with laptops
5. Make a rolling release distro that has an easy installer that don't screw up

@theuser some companies did that, but haven’t quite catch on

convince Adobe to get there shit together.

make it so popular that microsoft will lose a significant market share if they don't make office available.

Stop heavy fragmentation. Ubuntu tried it because the community bitched about it while at the same time bitching about the way they were doing things e.g unity as a default.

Linux's worst enemies are the user base...funny enough.

ohh. what if we count every docker instance as a separate install? numbers will go through the roof! :D

@AleCx04 well i dont know about that, the user base are pretty helpful to make the software grow

Its just a simple case of not having a major backer like Microsoft and Apple. I thought maybe it could happen with Google and and their new Linux-based OS (Chromium OS), but alas. (also, now they're creating a new one from scratch)

Valve tried their luck with SteamOS in the wake of Windows 8 being a steaming pile of shit, but alas.

@balte oh god, let me increase my instals from 4-5 to a few hundred

@1989 Honestly, it took my parents and sister like 1-2 hours to find everything.

Learning curve? Depends on the user. I personally find windows 10 and osx very hard to use.

@PerfectAsshole
Rolling release is not a good idea for beginniners.

@1989 Blame?! I'm saying that it took them only 1-2 hours! It took them a fucking week to understand how to do basic stuff in windows

What @theuser said. There are no household name backers. I'd also like to add the lack of AAA games. I spoke about this in a Mastodon thread today. The Linux market is small enough to make cross platform capabilities only a nice to have, and indies only do it if they care enough or their engine supports it. Couple that with having to go through learning Wine and looking up if a given application works with it and you've got a big hurdle for a large chunk of the market that would actually care to switch.

That's why I made a thread here a while back about some resources that help you find if your favourite games are compatible. Luckily for me the games I cared about are compatible, and the rest have decent Wine capability. But I'm one of the few.

Normal users cannot be expected to put in that kind of "effort" in transitioning or trying to use the software they want to use.

ship it with computers

microsoft sponsors younglings education to grow up in a windows world

@coffeeholic aka indoctrination 😉

@Root <-- what this girl said!

@savethecode that is a complete different thing though. The same user base keeps the system alive without reaching out to the masses. Linux will always remain a niche because of them.

@linuxxx
>Took my sister two hours to find everything

I installed Pop!_OS on my wife's computers. She seems to be able to navigate just fine.

@RiderExMachina Awesome!

@Linux Not at the current state of rolling distros. But if someone made one that had an easy installer it would be better than lts releases. Hell all i hear from windows fanboys is how they are a rolling release now which gripes my ass

Maybe by making an easier installer, maybe be able to install it from windows?

Port directx to Linux.