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No, most popular Linux distros have every GUI app you need to do your office work. What do you need? Office suite, file manager and browser? Check, check, check. Moreover, you don't have any office preinstalled on Windows and you even have to buy it (and the OS itself), or create a Microsoft account and use online, feature- and Internet-limited version. (With something like Fedora or Ubuntu you can run the live version from RAM from a USB drive, get done with your work, and you don't even have to install the OS, let alone buy it.)
The point is that it would work the other way around, if Linux was mainstream (I'm already wet) and Windows was in the minority.
Yes.
We can only dream if this will happen within a year. But decades already have passed and look where Linux is at: dominating server market share, all the IoT devices, government related stuff, developers, free-believers, FOSS enjoyers. We have SteamOS, Steamdeck, other handheld devices that are Linux-based, Proton, Lutris, Wine and other stuff. We have a lot of progress already. Desktop market share year by year does show that Linux and alike take a bigger and bigger cut. Withing a decade, everything will probably run on RISC-V architecture (something already does) and Linux will probably only become stronger and its community and market share will only grow.
Well, maybe not most, but definitely noticeable, if you search for/use it. I was very surprised to see Cisco Packet Tracer being available in a native .deb package (surprisingly, no one has created a comparable FOSS alternative thus far).
Side note. You don't always need the support, and the packages themselves can and do become available on other platforms. AUR and Nix repositories are the largest ones that have community-created packages that only available on Ubuntu or Fedora, etc.
I'm sure the year of Linux will happen before I die, or at least the next generation after me will have it. The progress is really huge and kinda becomes faster with every few years.
Yes, but have you looked at how LibreOffice looks? It looks like MS Office 1997-2003. Personally, I love that, but ask any MS Office user out there that's not into tech and just wants to get the job done, you'll always get the same answer, MS Office post 2007 with the ribbon interface is a lot better. People are used to that. If they'd have to chose between spending a little money and learning something new, guess what, they choose spending a little money. I know, it baffles me as well, but numbers don't lie.
And they usually see the whole MS account tied with office stuff thing as a feature, not as a drawback. Sure, they don't get to use all the tools that the sute can offer, but who needs calcs in spreadsheets or math equations in a text editor anyway, that's for geeks 😒.
Basically, if they can write a few words and insert an image here and there, that's more than enough for most people's needs. Sure, they pay for that, which they can get for free, but you don't see LibreOffice ads in Windows, do you 🤷.
Thay is what I actually meant, we kinda troubleshoot our own packages, even if they're repackaged from a closed source deb/rpm. If the dependencies are there and compiled against whatever is needed for the package to run, I don't really see a reason not to offer support for other distros, or at least make a subforum or whatever for those that want to repackage stuff for other distros, so they can at least gather in one place and discuss issues regarding repackaging, with some guidelines> from the support staff of the product. But unfortunatelly, that's rarely the case, that was my point.
I thought linux dominating server space was natural, after downfall of unix. Doesn't it?