As Torvalds pointed out in 2019, is that while some major hardware vendors do sell Linux PCs – Dell, for example, with Ubuntu – none of them make it easy. There are also great specialist Linux PC vendors, such as System76, Germany’s TUXEDO Computers, and the UK-based Star Labs, but they tend to market to people who are already into Linux, not disgruntled Windows users. No, one big reason why Linux hasn’t taken off is that there are no major PC OEMs strongly backing it. To Torvalds, Chromebooks “are the path toward the desktop.”
Yeah I’d say a large percentage of users don’t even know what a repository is, have no idea what a maintainer does, and wouldn’t even refer to their ‘apps’ as software.
You’re asking a lot of of people who don’t give a fuck.
What even is the benefit of getting the users who don’t even give a fuck about any of the things that are useful to learn (and have for those who did learn enough to use them)?
Yeah, but a lot of people nowadays only use a phone, and they don’t download their software from a random website, but they use a front end (e.g. Play Store/App Store), so they don’t need to get accustomed to it