![]() The following are my thoughts on the topic. I propose that gearing Elementary OS to developers will get a far broader adoption, and the spill over to other users will happen as they promote it to their family and friends. It is higher level users that will, and this is where Elementary OS comes in deficient. That level of users are not adventurous enough take on a "Linux" themselves. But the majority of those level of users are going to stick with the OS that came on the laptop they bought. Elementary OS promotes and is designed to be a simple OS for the average person and promotes the default simple apps of browser, media, email, etc. The reality is that the majority of the world primarily uses two OS's on a desktop or laptop, Windows and Mac, with Chrome being a distant third. But I have always had to tweak it a bit to fit my needs. I have promoted the OS to others over all of these years. So while my host machine is Windows, provided by my employer, all of my development virtual machines have been Elementary OS, which I adopted those many years ago because of its clean UI. There are a lot of advantages for developing in a virtual machine. Or I can make a branch as I experiment with ideas. I can easily take snapshots before making major changes and if things go awry it is just a few seconds to be back to a good state of things. This allows me to have many Virtual Machines with different environments or versions of our applications that have been customized for our customers. ![]() I use Virtual Machines to do all of my development work in. ![]() So what I say comes with some experience. I am a developer and since 2013 I have done all of my development work in Elementary OS. I have been using Elementary OS as my daily driver work OS since Luna. I have some thoughts for the direction of Elementary OS that I would like to share.
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