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Does it matter whether random people think Linux is user-hostile? Why is it important that grandma be able to use Ubuntu instead of macOS or Windows on her desk
by umanwizard 8y ago
Does it matter whether random people think Linux is user-hostile? Why is it important that grandma be able to use Ubuntu instead of macOS or Windows on her desktop?
- Koshkin 8y ago> random people A.k.a. your “customers.”
- loeg 8y agoYes! How do you think you bring new people in to the Linux community? Everyone starts somewhere, and no one is teaching Linux desktop to primary school students. Anecdotally, the first Linux experience that I was able to install and operate myself, after a handful of prior failed attempts, was Ubuntu (2005). And a big part of that was that it was friendly to absolute beginners like myself. Now I am a FreeBSD developer and have patches in a plethora of open source projects, including Linux. Everybody starts somewhere!