It's not that Linux on the desktop is closing the gap to Windows and MacOS, but that the latter two are aggressively shitting in the wine and gaslighting long-term users about the incredible improvements delivered every year. See: multi-monitor support, display management in general, window management, the accursed Spaces conceits, relocation of menubar toggles for sound and Bluetooth every OS release, pointless shuffling of the Settings app every release, comical degradation of iTunes over time... the list goes on.
My kids are coming up on Linux, and are never going to have the hallowed halls of 10.6 to look back on fondly.
It's sad, but every year I feel in a new way that we're merely strolling through a once-glorious cathedral built and abandoned by great engineers from a different era.
I felt this way at Google ~5 years ago, and left as soon as I could slip the golden handcuffs.
My kids are coming up on Linux, and are never going to have the hallowed halls of 10.6 to look back on fondly.
It's sad, but every year I feel in a new way that we're merely strolling through a once-glorious cathedral built and abandoned by great engineers from a different era.
I felt this way at Google ~5 years ago, and left as soon as I could slip the golden handcuffs.