• Rolder@reddthat.com
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    5 months ago

    The real thing stopping mass adoption of Linux is that few people want to fiddle around with their machines to that degree. For the vast majority of users, it just needs to run and be able to run whatever programs are needed, and the easier it is to do so, the better.

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        5 months ago

        Correct, and those people aren’t going to jump through hoops finding a distro and drivers when they can just install windows and call it a day

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          5 months ago

          This

          And when I run into issues, I would rather be using the OS that is the most common so that I have more options to get good info for a fix. I don’t want problems that nobody’s ever encountered, or for which the fix is beyond my limited technical ability.

          It’s somewhat amusing when I see people on Lemmy proselytizing for Linux and literally while laying out their points to convince someone how easy it is, they’ll talk about doing shit that is already beyond my ability. And I’m not some 90 year old who struggles to turn it on. I’m just a user that doesn’t care to use any OS that I’ll need to take time to learn to figure out how to use it.

          When I start a Windows machine I just do what I need to do.

          When even a Linux cheerleader is trying to convince someone how easy it is, they’re already indicating more effort than I want to put into it.