What are you using vmware for? If it’s to run Windows to do something you can’t or would be very difficult to do in Linux then I definitely don’t think you deserve the downvotes here.
In any case I think it’s counterintuitive for people who are trying to promote Linux to be snarky about this. But I guess that’s probably always going to be part of the Linux community.
It’s not about snarkiness, I was just rubbed the wrong way by your “os is not everyday user friendly”, which you said because you did something that most everyday users don’t do, and which doesn’t usually happens even if they do.
I am easily triggered by stuff like that because this was the mantra for so many years, and despite not being true for more than a decade, still a very big hurdle in the way of Linux adoption. So, so, so many people would like to try switching to Linux but don’t even try because they heard from someone on the Internet that you need to compile drivers all the time, and since they can’t do that, they believe that Linux isn’t for them
I just had to sign my own drivers that I compiled locally for VMWare. Even though I use it, it’s not quite ‘everyday’ user friendly
Edit: It is user-friendly and what I am doing is a CSCI college grad level, nothing anyone using basic Linux would ever need to do
That’s not everyday user usage.
Ok yeah but not my point. Sometimes you run into troubles with it is all
So your point is because when you do obscure stuff you ran into obscure problems that require obscure solutions, the os is not everyday user friendly?
My point is sometimes it can be difficult. I guess it is friendlier than Windows though
What are you using vmware for? If it’s to run Windows to do something you can’t or would be very difficult to do in Linux then I definitely don’t think you deserve the downvotes here.
In any case I think it’s counterintuitive for people who are trying to promote Linux to be snarky about this. But I guess that’s probably always going to be part of the Linux community.
I run Debian on it to keep a dedicated section of my hard drive for a web server I run to test things on
Sorry if I came across as snarky I was just salty at Linux yesterday
It’s not about snarkiness, I was just rubbed the wrong way by your “os is not everyday user friendly”, which you said because you did something that most everyday users don’t do, and which doesn’t usually happens even if they do.
I am easily triggered by stuff like that because this was the mantra for so many years, and despite not being true for more than a decade, still a very big hurdle in the way of Linux adoption. So, so, so many people would like to try switching to Linux but don’t even try because they heard from someone on the Internet that you need to compile drivers all the time, and since they can’t do that, they believe that Linux isn’t for them
Ok I’ll make an edit. I see your view
Thank you! Sorry if I was sound harsh, wasn’t my intention
Corrections always come across as harsh haha. I don’t think you were out of line at all and I appreciate the concern for the community.
Nah you’re good. I meant the others were being snarky.
Did you die?
A lil