• iByteABit [he/him]@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’s funny, but memes like this affect the opinion of people who haven’t tried it.

    They mistake some extreme minimal arch rice for the general Arch experience or the general Linux experience as well. If so many Lemmy users, who are statistically tech nerds, don’t see through the meme, then the average person will definitely stay away from Linux.

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      1 year ago

      The average person probably should stay away from Linux. In fact most of them should stay away from PCs in general.

      They should stick to an iPad or something. That way I, the family tech nerd, will never be bothered by them a week after they downloaded “hacked Spotify” or some shit, that is now emailing scams to everybody in the continental United States. Most people just need a browser.

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        1 year ago

        Ah yes. Let’s gatekeep Linux and keep the general public out of it. Definitely helpful to drive up adoption of desktop Linux.

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          As someone who recently started using it…doing anything at all is a pain in the ass in Linux vs Windows.

          Installing many things requires following a guide instead of downloading an exe. And when one step of the guide yields something unexpected, well good luck.

          The thing hurting Linux adoption is Linux.

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            1 year ago

            No, it’s fragmentation. If you know what can be applied to other distros and what’s distro-specific, things become very easy.

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          1 year ago

          Unironically yes. Let’s gatekeep anything that people can fuck around with that can’t be fixed by a simple factory reset button.

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            1 year ago

            Learning more about technology and having more control can be really empowering. I don’t think dumbing things down even more is going to make people more tech literate and it’s definitely going to make them more dependent on shitty corporations.