The best one I’ve ever heard is they like the Microsoft wallpapers. Yes i told them you can use them on linux too. But they argued with me that they wouldn’t be compatible.
I have a lot of geek/nerd friends who know their way around it, but the one excuse I’ve seen, for anyone who has heard of it, is the stigma that you have to use the terminal and need to be a “programmer”. Which is why, for those people, I just call it Mint Operating System.
Last week I was told that someone I know was going to install windows 11 instead of Linux because they worry about privacy…
😓
I don’t have a computer to try it on and I can’t be without a computer.
Oh here, take a Linux laptop from my giant box of Linux laptops!
This post is fairly problematic. Do not push people into Linux. You don’t need to go around promoting it like a Linux evangelical. People can use whatever they want.
They’re just having fun
Id like to know why CRD hates linux so much since he seems to be a really smart dude.
“It doesn’t have the Microsoft store” he said; after which my friend and I facepalmed so hard that it might have caused us a concussion.
One of my favourite things about Mint is that it has a Software Center with ratings and reviews. It’s what tipped me over from installing Zorin OS.
ZorinOS is just inferior in every aspect tbh. I had it and then I started using mint instead of it. Zorin is laggy, consumes too much ram even when idle, and looks like an unfinished product in its current form. I actually had more trouble using Zorin than using Mint as a new Linux user.
there was this person who was not using Linux because of the CAD software he wanted to use and when I asked what exactly it was, he said, “KiCad”
One guy told me he plays Mario Kart. As a reason to not install Linux.
Snerk, show him TuxKart. I haven’t played it myself yet, been meaning to.
Oh yeah, gotta love that. Some people have “Minecraft phases”, I have “STK/hedgewars/teeworlds” phases. Proud owner of an AUR package for a QoL client for Teeworlds, was dead simple to make that. Unless you mean the original TuxKart (not super), in which case that’s dead. And WarMux is dead (albeit still mostly playable), same with that one game that is also like a Worms clone but real time. I wish those were brought back…
Oh, and I forgot the name but there was this one tron clone that still mentions modem preferences and has some really really really low default graphics options but still has quite a few online players, I wish I didn’t suck at the game…
“Too many choices”…
“I deal with enough tinkering on computers at work, when I get home I just want it to work” Proceeds to spend hours getting mod packs installed on games they play for a week, month tops
That’s actually not as crazy though. Linus himself said people don’t install operating systems, it’s not what most people want to do in their free time.
We have our own version in linux too. Arch/Gentoo/NixOS, neovim/hyprland/kitty unixporn evangelists who clearly have a very different idea of what’s worth spending time on, compared to the average user. Like gosh, ubuntu, konsole and vscode work perfectly fine too!
Regarding Ubuntu, its cousin Mint is even more regular user friendly, as is ZorinOS.
Doesn’t seem ridiculous enough.
They probably expect the OS to “just work”, so that they can work on other things that don’t just work.
A little BS though, but understandable.
I can’t think of a good story from personal experience, so I’ll share a wild objection from some guy on the internet from, I think 2007. The story pops into my head from time to time. This guy insisted that it would be impossible to create an entire OS that can run from start to finish without the resources of a major software company. He argued that therefore Linux must actually be a pirated, reskinned version of Windows. https://danielandrade.net/posts/linux-windows-misconceptions-tech-story/
I checked the Wayback machine to try to find more messages from that thread because I think he kept posting and doubling down. But pulling up ancient ZDNet forum posts is slow enough that I gave up.
No biggie here. Just one of the pawns in MS’s FUD tactics.
Apple tried to create their own system for years but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.
That person can’t be real…
I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.
If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without Windows.
The naivety.
Omg please kill me 😭
The only people I know that I’ve not been able to convince are absolutely attached to their competitive shooters. That seems to be the last bastion for many.
I’ve tried to explain (in very subtle ways) that their lives would genuinely be better off without those types of games reeling them in, but it’s a genuine addiction for them.
I have a friend who won’t leave windows because of League…in fact when we work on projects together I often have symlinks in my repo and he won’t even turn on developer mode to deal with them because it means if he wants to play league he has to restart his computer since it breaks the anti-cheat…so I have to make sure to desymlinkify any repo I expect him to clone…it’s cursed how much of a hold a stupid game can have.
Doesn’t git use some kind of shim for symlinks on Windows? So they don’t break when committing back in.
Just tell him to make a Linux VM for it.
Similar here - The grip League of Legends has on people is terrifying.
As a gamer myself I don’t think it’s appropriate to try to deprive someone of a hobby that they genuinely enjoy. As a long-time Linux user I stick to games that work well on Linux, like Overwatch. But unfortunately games aren’t interchangeable - if League is your thing, Dota might not be an acceptable substitute.
Better to argue for dual booting than to try to cut off a friend’s personal relationship with their game.
There’s a difference between someone who likes poker and someone who has a gambling problem.
The same thing exists in games. It could be a reliance on gambling or other addictive behavior, it could be the game generates online toxicity, or something else. Either way, if it’s becoming a problem it needs to be addressed.
Even if that game is toxic waste?
“Will I get attached to a subscription for it or something?”
“It’s not a subscription service!”
“Oh, okay… well, I don’t know… I don’t want to get a virus on it.”
“You can’t get viruses on it!”
“It’s not gonna make me wanna have sex, is it?”
“It makes sex even better!”
“Sounds kind of expensive.”
“It’s the cheapest operating system there is.”
At that level, might as well not try persuasion.
Can I get a little sweet leaf right between my teeth?
I recently bought a new computer and decided to go Linux only. And because it was a new computer, it’s bleeding edge. I got the 9950X3D, I got 64 gigs of DDR5, I got the 5090. And by all measures, it is a fantastic machine.
That being said, getting Linux working on it flawlessly was a several day long adventure.
The motherboard has a driver for its 5 gigabit ethernet connection and I have 10 gig in the house so I assumed that it would work flawlessly out of the box, and instead it was only working at like 100 megabits.
The actual fix involved learning a new set of commands to modprobe in the correct driver after downloading it from the site, which was much more difficult than I feel like it needed to be.
That being said, I’m not a Linux noob. I have used Linux in servers for a decade now, easily, and I’ve never run into quite this level of difficulty getting hardware to work correctly.
And ultimately what I ended up doing was installing LM Studio and an abliterated AI so that I could throw all of the errors that konsole was spitting at me into the AI and let it work it out, which worked a treat once I realized I had the ability to do that.
If I may ask, which distro did/do you have on it?
I tried a bunch, but I have settled on Kubuntu.
