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  • Nalivai@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlWindows doesn't "just work"
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    1 day ago

    The problem with Linux is that it is not tech-normie friendly.

    That probably was true 15 years ago. That is absolutely not true now. This misconception stems from the fact that most tech normies have a lot of experience with Windows through job, so people assume Windows is friendly, but in reality they just know how it works.
    Learning how to use Linux is dead easy. It’s not popular because it’s not pre installed, as you said, but it’s not because the OS is bad, it’s because Linux doesn’t have multibillion corporation behind it to make sure its everywhere.













  • How a noob supposed to know anything? By learning. You pretend that learning how to click through 5 confusing sumbenues is easy as fuck, but learning how to read basic ass words is an esoteric knowledge that only wisards can learn.
    You pretend that nobody can comprehend that apt-get install steam will install steam, but searching through the website, downloading an installer, looking through your system for a file, executing it, and following through twelve steps of a wisard is suddenly magically a knowledge that everyone just grasps.
    You pretend that “find this file, find WhateverBullshit=1 and change 1 to 0” is incomprehensible and requires a whole new language to understand, but “click this menu, open this submenu, scroll untill you find this subsection of subsection, look for the menu that opens a window of menus and then look for a tickbox that they actually moved three versions ago” is so simple you don’t actually need to even think about.
    But as an experienced system administrator, I can tell you from an experience, if the person doesn’t want to learn, or can’t, they will not, and it’s not because they’re intimidated by the concept of letters, but because the whole idea of learning a skill is confusing or intimidating. When people aren’t in the mood they will look at the window telling them to press the only button on the screen, and they will call for help.
    And if they want to know their instrument, they will learn whatever they need, and since reading is one of the fundamental skills we have in the modern society, they will learn how to read configs and write commands without the problems you envision.




  • I’m from Russia, and I totally get your experience. When the war started, I had to go to work. There is the whole ass war, the government invades other countries under the most batshit pretense possible, people are being conscripted to go die in a ditch, the future just got canceled, and I need to care about my stupid little job, and stupid little rent, and stupid little groceries.
    The only thing that helped me getting by head back in place (slightly) was getting the fuck out of there, but even that helped only a bit.