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There are other issues as well that to people who know how to use Linux are not issues. Take running a program for example, on Windows telling a user they need
by wazanator 10y ago
There are other issues as well that to people who know how to use Linux are not issues. Take running a program for example, on Windows telling a user they need to open CMD and run a batch file to get a program to execute is insane. Yet that's fairly common even with modern Linux software.
For Linux to compete with Windows realistically for average computer users it needs to have a distro that is like macOS in that it's idiot proof. I should be able to sit someone down in front of a computer running it with no instructions and the OS should do the teaching without telling them to open a terminal and look at man pages.
- remir 10y agoI agree with you, but I don't think GNU/Linux can compete with Windows at that point. The things you wrote about should have been implemented in most distro years ago. If you speak about this in /r/linux, the people there will tell you that "if people are not willing to learn how to use the terminal to install apps, then they're just lazy/too stupid". This is the kind of mentality we're dealing with and that's why there's 288 ditros without any chance of mass adoption.