• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Yes I do understand how Linux software works. I don’t like it, I’m allowed to understand it and still not like it. What’s with the gatekeeping?

    I want my computer to just work I don’t want to have to mess around with it I don’t want to have to try and manage drivers and find versions of drivers that work with a particular operating system I just want to install the program and then use the program.

    Windows offers me that. As does Mac accept it comes with a stupidly expensive computer.

    Linux is just unnecessary busy work for people who like that kind of thing but I don’t really care about all of that stuff I care about using the programs not the underlying computer stuff. If you like that kind of thing great. But I just want the operating system in my case to get out of the way.

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        Here’s me then conceding to the fact that Linux is much harder to use than Windows - when anything goes wrong. Most people can barely even use windows properly, so no, Linux is out of the question for the majority unless they only ever use a web browser.

        For people like me however, Linux IS easier to use, which is why the same type of people easily fall into the trap of assuming everyone can be like them.

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            Chrome OS is literally built on the Linux kernel and you’re saying it’s simpler lmao. It overtook because Google created their own entire class of laptop devices undercutting the price of most entry level options, preinstalled with ChromeOS.

            More steps to get anything done is not correct, the entire reason I use Linux at work is because it takes less steps to get things done than Windows.

            Installing Firefox on windows:

            1. Open browser

            2. Search for Firefox

            3. Click result

            4. Find and click download button

            5. Click .exe

            6. Click yes on security dialog

            7. Click next a bunch of times (I’ll be fair and make this a single step)

            8. Launch

            On Linux (assuming it isn’t installed by default on your distro):

            1. Open terminal

            2. sudo apt install Firefox

            3. type ‘y’

            4. Launch

            At least double the amount of steps if you don’t include launching the browser. You’re talking absolute shit saying it’s ‘simple fact’ when I could give many other examples that objectively prove your statement false.

            Is it more difficult to use for the average user? Sure. Is it more difficult for everyone? No.

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        1 year ago

        That’s not the point (which is also subjective; if you are a Linux developer or uses Linux software at work it’s much harder to use Window). They implied that Linux doesn’t let you install proprietary software, which is not true and shows they don’t understand how software works. Windows software requires proprietary software from Microsoft to run. You can’t run Windows software on Linux because those components are proprietary to Microsoft and are not available for Linux, although Wine tries to reverse engineer them.

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        As I said the programs I need to use do not work on Linux I’ve tried to get them to work on Linux and either they straight up won’t run, or they run with terrible performance even with Wine. So it was never really my choice to like Linux.

        At that point I gave up and just went back to Windows because realistically I just don’t actually care that much. The point is if it isn’t easy to use out of the box 99% of people are just going to consider it not worthwhile.

        Besides I would only end up remoting into a Windows computer anyway in order to get work stuff done, so it just seems like unnecessarily adding a layer of complexity. Just so I can go “screw you Microsoft”. It’s not like they’ll notice.

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        1 year ago

        Veganism for computers.

        How can you tell if somebody is a Linux user? Because they tell you, immediately, upon meeting them for the first time. Then they tell you you’re a stupid subhuman for using windows.

        It’s great fun.