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People want something that works out of the box and keeps working without additional maintenance or annoying you all the time. The post you are replying to has
by diffeomorphism 3y ago
People want something that works out of the box and keeps working without additional maintenance or annoying you all the time.
The post you are replying to has a stronger focus on the second part but still wants the same thing.
Same reasoning for getting debian instead of windows. The preinstalled option seems easier at first sight (someone else prepared the box for you), but then windows has McAfee trials, hey sign up for this, oh you don't want updates right now... too bad, your microphone does not work in Skype and you have no clue where to even look to fix it. I don't have the time or patience to deal with this, so debian it is.
- dagmx 3y agoI understand what the person I was replying to wants. I was replying to their point that they don’t understand that other people don’t want the same, when they do but they just value other forms of simplicity. And how does being on Debian meaningfully change your scenario? You’ve just shifted the issue elsewhere to something that you are subjectively more familiar with and subjectively more willing to debug. Let’s be real. Most people aren’t going to do that. The year of Linux on the desktop would have come by now (and let’s not trot out the steamdeck which hides that away)
- fsloth 3y agoAny vanilla option with millions of users and some reputation for quality works for this. Windows works just fine out of the box. As does mac os. As does debian. With windows you ofc run the risk of purchasing your kit from a shitty vendor - so that for sure is a slight extra hurdle.