I hate it when people gate keep. If someone who doesn’t care about computers at all but finds windows annoying can switch (my mother) anyone can.
At the same time, there is an expectation for people to try to get used to how different Linux is just like with switching to macos. It’s not great dealing with people switching to Linux expecting it to be almost identical to windows. I think it’s left some of us a little bitter.
Ironically, I find Windows much harder to use, but maybe that’s because I’m constantly trying to stop it from doing ridiculous things like installing drivers for devices I don’t own, updating in the background, and prompting me to create a le microsoft account.
The only reason I continue to use Windows 10 on my gaming computer is I’ve got years of regedits and gpedits invested before being introduced to Linux.
No means yes right? I’m gonna say no means yes, have 100G of smartphone games and spyware disguised as a web browser or an AI assistant!
Oh and were gonna do it now in the middle of you compiling a big project or running a fluid simulation. Also when we’re done punching your dick in we’re gonna ask you to try office 365, teams, and onecloud like we did the last 50 times.
Yep, so on top of the regedits, I should have mentioned the need to run additional software just to get it to behave. Things like BC Uninstaller to remove the bloat and MSEdgeRedirect to force the baked-in URLs to use my default browser.
Linux is so much easier imo. For full disclosure, I’m “only” using Mint, but still – what an improvement!
I wish someone had told me all this years ago! I always heard people claim that you had to be super techie to understand how to use Linux, so I stayed away until last year when someone on lemmy finally convinced me to try it on an old gaming laptop of mine – a laptop that could barely run Windows anymore. It works just fine with Linux!
Ngl Windows is more annoying to install than Linux Mint or Ubuntu. The average user can just click through most of the default settings just fine unless you’re trying to have a fancy dual boot setup
Unfortunately, Linux has the requirement that a user needs IQ > 80. That’s why it’s only at 4% desktop market share.
i get this is just supposed to be a joke but it really boils down to “non-linux users are stupid” and that’s just sad
I hate it when people gate keep. If someone who doesn’t care about computers at all but finds windows annoying can switch (my mother) anyone can.
At the same time, there is an expectation for people to try to get used to how different Linux is just like with switching to macos. It’s not great dealing with people switching to Linux expecting it to be almost identical to windows. I think it’s left some of us a little bitter.
Ironically, I find Windows much harder to use, but maybe that’s because I’m constantly trying to stop it from doing ridiculous things like installing drivers for devices I don’t own, updating in the background, and prompting me to create a le microsoft account.
The only reason I continue to use Windows 10 on my gaming computer is I’ve got years of regedits and gpedits invested before being introduced to Linux.
No means yes right? I’m gonna say no means yes, have 100G of smartphone games and spyware disguised as a web browser or an AI assistant!
Oh and were gonna do it now in the middle of you compiling a big project or running a fluid simulation. Also when we’re done punching your dick in we’re gonna ask you to try office 365, teams, and onecloud like we did the last 50 times.
Yep, so on top of the regedits, I should have mentioned the need to run additional software just to get it to behave. Things like BC Uninstaller to remove the bloat and MSEdgeRedirect to force the baked-in URLs to use my default browser.
Linux is so much easier imo. For full disclosure, I’m “only” using Mint, but still – what an improvement!
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I wish someone had told me all this years ago! I always heard people claim that you had to be super techie to understand how to use Linux, so I stayed away until last year when someone on lemmy finally convinced me to try it on an old gaming laptop of mine – a laptop that could barely run Windows anymore. It works just fine with Linux!
People are good at different things depending on what they spend their finite time and energy on.
But 90% of people have IQ > 80
I thank you for thinking I’m smart enough to use Linux, but, homie, I’m Patrick trying to do a DIY project. I’m big dumb.
If something like KDE Neon came preinstalled on a PC they’d be fine tbh. It’s the act of having to install a thing that makes it undesirable
Tbf, i know a lot of people that struggle gravely when installing windows even
Ngl Windows is more annoying to install than Linux Mint or Ubuntu. The average user can just click through most of the default settings just fine unless you’re trying to have a fancy dual boot setup