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I think you're probably coming from a "I have a billion years of experience with linux, so it's all easy" point of view. Linux first install CAN be smooth sail
by esyir 7y ago
I think you're probably coming from a "I have a billion years of experience with linux, so it's all easy" point of view.
Linux first install CAN be smooth sailing till the first roadblock. Then you see a few things happen:
- User gives up because a decent chunk of people don't even know to google the error message
- Error message gets googled, you now receive 2-3 different solutions
- Solutions require diving into the terminal, changing and tweaking annoying settings. Terminal use alone makes things a PITA for your average user.
- xorcist 7y agoPerhaps, but having a corresponding billion years of experience with some other operating system doesn't make the comparison more fair. Buy a cheap out of the box laptop with poor hardware and you are going to have to google error messages no matter what operating system you put on it. I've had enough of Windows laptops with flaky wifi or that doesn't resume from suspend properly, for example. Mac users like their boxes primarily, and rightly, because of the premium hardware. The fact remains, that if you have a non-techie friend or relative that wants a computer that just works for surfing the web and writing documents, get them a decent Linux box. That might mean ChromeOS these days, or it might mean Fedora on a Thinkpad. As long as they don't stray into tweaking those weird settings, they're set for life (figurately speaking, of course). Those of us who develops software, and especially for "the cloud" (i.e. Linux), we have our own choices to make. Just give up that old Linux-requires-tinkering narrative. That hasn't been true since the early 00s, when editing xorg.conf and manually setting IRQ lines was a thing (which was true of PC hardware mostly before the PCI Express era).