Are 98% of PC users using proprietary hardware incompatible with Linux?
Hardware compatibility is just one of a long list of reasons. The primary of which is usability. Linux can be completely free of ads and pop-ups but it doesn’t matter if it can’t do the things you need it to do, or it’s too complicated to make it do them.
Linux isn’t a 100% perfect drop in replacement
I don’t know where you got this binary position. No, it doesn’t have to be, that’s not the point.
It’s still good enough to recommend over Windows.
You can recommend it all day, if it can’t do what the user needs it to do, you’re wasting your breath. Some of them aren’t mandatory but many of them are deal breakers.
That hurdle won’t get any shorter if people don’t at least try using it.
No one is suggesting anyone shouldn’t try it. But trying it also costs time and (probably) money.
There’s absolutely no way KDE is “complicated to use” unless your brain is the size of a goldfish grown in a badly kept piece of Tupperware.
An Android phone’s default UI is significanty harder to navigate, compared to the standard Windows desktop metaphor, than KDE’s default UI. People handle Android just fine.
Most Linux distros these days are more usable and less complicated than Windows. It’s not difficult for most people to get it to do the things they need it to do. This view that Linux doesn’t have the software selection or features comparable to an Enterprise Operating System ™️ like Windows is largely outdated and misguided.
No one is suggesting anyone shouldn’t try it.
Mkay, sure, uh huh. You’re being awfully discouraging without explicitly telling people not to try Linux, but c’mon, we know what you’re doing.
Most Linux distros these days are more usable and less complicated than Windows.
Abso-fuckin-lutely not. You’re just lying.
This view that Linux doesn’t have the software selection or features comparable to an Enterprise Operating System ™️ like Windows is largely outdated and misguided.
It isn’t.
You’re being awfully discouraging
I am not discouraging anything. I am being realistic. You are not.
Hardware compatibility is just one of a long list of reasons. The primary of which is usability. Linux can be completely free of ads and pop-ups but it doesn’t matter if it can’t do the things you need it to do, or it’s too complicated to make it do them.
I don’t know where you got this binary position. No, it doesn’t have to be, that’s not the point.
You can recommend it all day, if it can’t do what the user needs it to do, you’re wasting your breath. Some of them aren’t mandatory but many of them are deal breakers.
No one is suggesting anyone shouldn’t try it. But trying it also costs time and (probably) money.
There’s absolutely no way KDE is “complicated to use” unless your brain is the size of a goldfish grown in a badly kept piece of Tupperware.
An Android phone’s default UI is significanty harder to navigate, compared to the standard Windows desktop metaphor, than KDE’s default UI. People handle Android just fine.
The DE is not the problem…
And what is the problem?
Most Linux distros these days are more usable and less complicated than Windows. It’s not difficult for most people to get it to do the things they need it to do. This view that Linux doesn’t have the software selection or features comparable to an Enterprise Operating System ™️ like Windows is largely outdated and misguided.
Mkay, sure, uh huh. You’re being awfully discouraging without explicitly telling people not to try Linux, but c’mon, we know what you’re doing.
Abso-fuckin-lutely not. You’re just lying.
It isn’t.
I am not discouraging anything. I am being realistic. You are not.