Well, I think the reason so few people use Linux desktops has more to do with the Linux industry deciding to focus on the back office. There were some very specific corporate decisions about this in the mid 2000's. I was in the middle of them as Chair of the Open A11y work. All of sudden, corporations were pulling staff assigned to work on Linux desktop accessibility. But it what I saw was actually part of the wider disinvestment in the Linux desktop itself.
Sharing files across OS environments isn't that hard. It's as old and as reliable over TCP/IP as the ftp protocol, and all the major file systems can be supported, if needed. Furthermore, tools like Libre Office can read and write all kinds of file formats with minimal user involvement, e.g. I haven't used Ms Word in well over a decade, but have no problem reading docx files that I'm sent. Just my 2 cents American on the topic. Janina Sabahattin Gucukoglu writes: > The reason is that Open-VM-Tools is now using a FUSE driver that one installs > as part of the “open-vm-tools-desktop” package, whereas the proprietary tools > are using a dedicated vmhgfs kernel module that is now deprecated. I no > longer use sharing because the dependency requirements are too heavy for a > headless machine. > > This ought, incidentally, to be a nice illustration of why so many people > aren’t using Linux on their desktops. :) > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:[email protected] Email: [email protected] Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
