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> "My system is harder to use" is not a selling point. Unless you're a Linux Desktop evangelist, then it is because it lets you feel smugly superior to people

• atoav 6y ago
  I run a dual boot system since half a year now (have been running windows for more than a decade). And the one thing I absolutely loved about Linux is that it does what I say. On Windows 10 there are things that are impossible to get rid of. That new browser that automatically adds itself to the desktop icons? Or the Onedrive icon in the explorer which you can only remove through registry hacks (and which might come back at any time after a update). Customising Windows is so amazingly hard and cumbersome, I was just blown away how easy and straightforward this was on Linux. I once gave my mother a Ubuntu installation after I had been particularilly annoyed by a malware she managed to catch on her Windows 7 machine. She has no idea how to use computers, but she really loved Ubuntu and told me it feels much clearer. She used it for nearly 4 years till the hardware died. To my surprise she had significantly less questions about how to do $x than before. My feeling is that the Linux desktop can be great for people with very simple needs or very advanced needs. It is that middle ground where it currently sucks I guess.