Problem is Youtube is known to censor these kind of campaigns. I think they literally got caught delisting Tiny11 tutorials recently. Imagine what they‘ll do if Linux Tutorials pick up steam. Big tech is one giant illegal syndicate and politicians have invested in all of them.
Is there another venue? Nebula doesn’t seem keen on DIY and anything not free is going to have an incredibly reduced audience. The people who need the info most are the least likely to be able to afford another sub.
What it takes is people being able to buy a Linux machine at the local electronics store. Installing your OS yourself is still a major hurdle for most people.
However another important step is that the default distro needs to basically not even highlight that terminal exists.
If you’re trying to learn how to use linux, and step 1 of the tutorial is “open terminal”, you will lose 97% of your new install base. Then headlines will flood that linux machines are being returned in high numbers.
As much as you guys hate to hear this, the first experience for a new linux user needs to be intuitive. Before they even turn the machine on, they have to know how to use this software. Not because they are experts, but because the space and experience guides itself.
Then as you learn, you can customize a bit more, and from there linux can become a rabbit hole. But the point is, let the individual user control the depths which they dive. Because I suspect 90%+ won’t even change the desktop background. And thats ok.
Make it easy for the dummies, but then you individually can tinker if you want to. And it’s linux, so…ya know. Go nuts. But some people don’t want to do all that tinkering. That vanilla experience is what gets remembered to represent that OS. Even if you customized it and experienced it very differently.
You say that, but there are plenty of posts on the Linux mint forums where solutions requured using the terminal for basic troubleshooting (especially WiFi and bluetooth).
But its very unfamiliar for people coming from Windows. That said, ZorinOS does a very good job of reworking it to look and act like Windows, KDE, cinnamon or previous versions of Gnome.
That’s where I think Bazzite really shines… I didn’t need the terminal to setup all of the normal stuff at all, and new apps I discovered right from the start menu so I didn’t need to go far at all.
I’m afraid price won’t be right or I have to say it’s hard for to it to be right when pc components are soaring in prices. They just ran into a bad timing.
It might. I just don’t see any use in it. Says a former Linux advocate. Don’t get me wrong, I’m writing this on a Debian stable machine, I’d never even think of using anything else for a daily driver and have been doing so for 25 years, but Windows users will be Windows users and I don’t see any reason to adapt Linux to their needs. Or to that bundle of vague illusions that they believe to be what they need. The evolution of Windows has produced such a horrible, parasitic product that its’ users don’t see any other way now than to jump ship. They’re mostly lost cases, IMO.
It will take some serious, I hate to say it, YouTube campaigning and such to make Linux a more mainstream thought in the public’s brain.
Problem is Youtube is known to censor these kind of campaigns. I think they literally got caught delisting Tiny11 tutorials recently. Imagine what they‘ll do if Linux Tutorials pick up steam. Big tech is one giant illegal syndicate and politicians have invested in all of them.
Is there another venue? Nebula doesn’t seem keen on DIY and anything not free is going to have an incredibly reduced audience. The people who need the info most are the least likely to be able to afford another sub.
What it takes is people being able to buy a Linux machine at the local electronics store. Installing your OS yourself is still a major hurdle for most people.
That is an important step, yes.
However another important step is that the default distro needs to basically not even highlight that terminal exists.
If you’re trying to learn how to use linux, and step 1 of the tutorial is “open terminal”, you will lose 97% of your new install base. Then headlines will flood that linux machines are being returned in high numbers.
As much as you guys hate to hear this, the first experience for a new linux user needs to be intuitive. Before they even turn the machine on, they have to know how to use this software. Not because they are experts, but because the space and experience guides itself.
Then as you learn, you can customize a bit more, and from there linux can become a rabbit hole. But the point is, let the individual user control the depths which they dive. Because I suspect 90%+ won’t even change the desktop background. And thats ok.
Make it easy for the dummies, but then you individually can tinker if you want to. And it’s linux, so…ya know. Go nuts. But some people don’t want to do all that tinkering. That vanilla experience is what gets remembered to represent that OS. Even if you customized it and experienced it very differently.
If you use something like Mint or Ubuntu, you never need to see the terminal.
You say that, but there are plenty of posts on the Linux mint forums where solutions requured using the terminal for basic troubleshooting (especially WiFi and bluetooth).
Gnome is very good at this
But its very unfamiliar for people coming from Windows. That said, ZorinOS does a very good job of reworking it to look and act like Windows, KDE, cinnamon or previous versions of Gnome.
That’s where I think Bazzite really shines… I didn’t need the terminal to setup all of the normal stuff at all, and new apps I discovered right from the start menu so I didn’t need to go far at all.
Steam Deck + Steam Cube
The Deck probably looks too toylike for many people. The GabeCube might really make an impact, if the price is right.
I’m afraid price won’t be right or I have to say it’s hard for to it to be right when pc components are soaring in prices. They just ran into a bad timing.
More than system76 and Lenovo think pads without graphics cards.
And soon there would be a corpo that will make a closed source commercial OS based on Linux and people will somehow use their crap.
Like Android? It’s getting more closed every day.
Oops, completely forgot about it
I don’t think ChromeOS is going to win though
Red hat is still around…
Redhat is opensource, it’s just not free to use
Rocky and Fedora are based off it ig
Iirc, didn’t they start basically selling access to the source code?
It might. I just don’t see any use in it. Says a former Linux advocate. Don’t get me wrong, I’m writing this on a Debian stable machine, I’d never even think of using anything else for a daily driver and have been doing so for 25 years, but Windows users will be Windows users and I don’t see any reason to adapt Linux to their needs. Or to that bundle of vague illusions that they believe to be what they need. The evolution of Windows has produced such a horrible, parasitic product that its’ users don’t see any other way now than to jump ship. They’re mostly lost cases, IMO.