@scottjenson It's a great talk! I shared it with my coworkers.

@scottjenson Because that was a fantastic talk ;)

Also have you watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHQv4blla7g ? :P

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Also the Google Algorithm aligned!
I wasn't aware of you or your work but YouTube recommended your video and it sounded like the sort of thing that I would like so I watched.
And I am glad because it was interesting. 👍

@scottjenson I guess it helps that it is an amazing talk. I loved every minute of it.

@scottjenson Great talk. I was taking notes the whole time. Kudos.

@scottjenson it was a great talk. Learned a lot!

@scottjenson Something that is "a Linux desktop" is never going to have mass appeal. The *nix distro culture isn't suited to consumers: It has no opinions about PC hardware, no hw certification program, no stable high-level API, no stable default UI, all the UIs are shallow and barely touch drivers and low-level configs, remote support is near impossible (how do you walk users through a UI that is a wildcard?), online help is 98% shell, etc.

I agree with some of your points, but "Linux desktop" is a geek's mirage that consumers can't see. In the past, the best candidate for a FOSS desktop "breakout" was elementaryOS before they caved and became another "Linux distro" (it started out as as its own thing, which happened to use the Linux kernel). The second best was Ubuntu, with Shuttleworth trying to create a synchronized dependency scheme (which was rejected by corporate America because it threatened Red Hat's market position).

Android is a true consumer FOSS operating system. Version 16 now has a desktop UI and even the FSF is making plans to advance FOSS Android. There you go.

@scottjenson congrats! I appreciated how non-ted talk like it was, it felt personal with nice mix of history and insights.

@scottjenson Maybe part of it is that the average person is now realizing that OSes are just getting worse every release (Windows & macOS). Adding junk they don't want (AI) & changing the interface in ways we've known for 40 years are bad (removal of colour, transparent buttons, etc.).

I just installed macOS 26 on a VM & it's just painful; feels like it was designed by an 8 year old. I kind of want to dig out my old Apple HIG books and send them to someone at Apple.

Anyway - loved your talk!

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@scottjenson this talk is how I found you on mastodon, lots of very interesting stuff and I learned a ton. Really thought it was interesting OSX brings window focus on mouse up. Didn't know that !