Roblimo once called it “a tradition, not just a speech” — Bryan Lunduke’s annual “Linux Sucks” presentations at various Linux conferences. But before you get too upset, in his 2014 interview with Slashdot Lunduke admitted “I love Linux, I have made my whole life around Linux. I work for Linux companies. I write for Linux magazines, but it really blows…”
This year he’s releasing a special YouTube version of Linux Sucks 2020, the first time Lunduke has attempted the talk without a live audience, “And it feels really wicked weird.” But he’s still trying to get a rise out of his audience. “Follow me on this into Journey Into Graphs and Numbers Land,” Lunduke says playfully, pulling up one of his 160 x 90 pixel slides showing current market share for Windows, Mac, and then Linux “You might notice that some platforms have a higher market share than Linux does,” he says with a laugh, describing one slide showing Linux as “scooping up the bottom of the barrel at 1.6%…”
“But here’s the thing. These numbers have been either consistent, or for Linux, slowly dropping.” And then he puts up a graph showing the number of searches for Linux. “If you look back at 2004 — the year 2004, 16 years ago — that was the high point in interest in searching for the word Linux (or Linux plus other things). 2006 it was about half that — so about two years later it had dropped down to about half. Here in 2020 it is so low, not only does it not fill up the first bar of pixels there, it’s like only three pixels in. That doesn’t happen — that sort of decline does not happen — unless the platform sucks. That’s just the truth of the matter. That’s just how it goes, right?”
And there’s also some very specific reasons why Lunduke thinks Linux sucks:
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