• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    Because Windows just works. And yeah I need non-open source software shock horror and I dislike Linux’s “oh no your accidentally installing some proprietary software you silly billy don’t worry I’ve prevented it”.

    But also it’s really not my choice if the program I want to install doesn’t actually work on Linux and does work on Windows then realistically I have to use Windows.

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        They are probably referring to distros that for legal reasons don’t include things like Codecs or proprietary drivers and stuff… and then you need to first research how to manually install those, after figuring out that you even need to do that at all…

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            I love that anytime someone brings up a legitimate argument against using Linux. The response is basically just “lol git gud, skill issue”. These Linux Stans are worse than Apple fan boys lol.

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          That’s exactly the issue… you need to properly use it. Most people don’t, and can’t be bothered to when Windows is just pre-installed and mostly doing its job alright…

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      Linux never prevents you from installing anything. What distro was this and what happened? :)

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        The one where the library the program needed had to be required from source, and the source had dependencies not in the distro’s repo. Flatpacs might finally be solving this, but for some reason Linux folks still think bundling a few hundred kb of libraries and dependencies with the program is a big nono, so software install is really really hard for anything not in the repo, whereas on Windows it just works.

        If you only need Firefox and VLC, Linux is great. If you use a wide variety of programs, expect most to either not work, or only be usable as the Windows version through Wine.

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        Yeah but of course but with Windows I don’t need a third party program to install things onto the OS.

        When you actually think about it is bizarre why don’t they just let people install things.

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          I don’t think you understand how Linux and software work. Windows software doesn’t work on Linux because it depends on other Windows software. Wine tries to supply these missing pieces. Linux isn’t stopping from doing anything.

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            Yes I do understand how Linux software works. I don’t like it, I’m allowed to understand it and still not like it. What’s with the gatekeeping?

            I want my computer to just work I don’t want to have to mess around with it I don’t want to have to try and manage drivers and find versions of drivers that work with a particular operating system I just want to install the program and then use the program.

            Windows offers me that. As does Mac accept it comes with a stupidly expensive computer.

            Linux is just unnecessary busy work for people who like that kind of thing but I don’t really care about all of that stuff I care about using the programs not the underlying computer stuff. If you like that kind of thing great. But I just want the operating system in my case to get out of the way.

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                There are rather userfriendly distros like Fedora, Mint which out of the box are just as usable as any windows installation. The only reason i can think of why you might think linux is more complicated is because you have prior experience with windows and would need to re-learn how todo things. But i dont see any user without such notions to describe the linux experience as more complicated.

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                    It comes with every issue

                    What issues are you talking about. Could you provide one or two examples?

                    doesn’t have NEARLY the amount of software supported

                    because linux is currently undergoing a unification of software with flatpaks … so the amount directly supported software is very quickly increasing like nothing before

                    It’s still a nightmare to install new software.

                    Almost all distros have graphical software installers now … so i can’t really agree with you, sorry.

                    Linux itself is incompatible with the basic user function … People want it to be extremely easy, extremely simple, and easy to find.

                    Every desktop main menu has a search function … so finding stuff is as easy as never before.

                    What an utterly meaningless statement.

                    I’d say meaningless is the wrong word … i think you wanted to say “obvious” … which i agree. It’s just that some people seem to forget and i got into the habit of reminding them.

                    Why? Because it’s unnecessarily complicated for basic daily use.

                    Still sounds to me like you might be mixing your preconceptions and maybe old experiences

                    There’s a reason that Microsoft and Apple dominate the home computer market and it’s simply due to ease of use.

                    I’d say its mostly because of clever marketing and having their stuff pre-installed and the average user not knowing about alternatives … but i wont say that they didn’t learn maintain a reasonable easy to use UI for their systems, especially since the insentive for profit is pretty high.

                    simply to move a folder from one location to another. The fact that Distros have had to build in this feature much later and a decade after the fact is utterly insane.

                    Now this sounds like you havent used any linux distro in a very long time … but maybe i am just misunderstanding you and you are meaning something more specific, which i can’t really make out, sorry.

                    Y’all can have fun using an abacus but I’ll stick with a calculator thats simple, easy, clean, and user friendly.

                    Obviously you can do as you like, i just wanted to better understand your perspectiv on this matter. And i think i already have a better understanding but … i think i am still missing some parts.

                    Thanks for the nice discussion so far.

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                Here’s me then conceding to the fact that Linux is much harder to use than Windows - when anything goes wrong. Most people can barely even use windows properly, so no, Linux is out of the question for the majority unless they only ever use a web browser.

                For people like me however, Linux IS easier to use, which is why the same type of people easily fall into the trap of assuming everyone can be like them.

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                    Chrome OS is literally built on the Linux kernel and you’re saying it’s simpler lmao. It overtook because Google created their own entire class of laptop devices undercutting the price of most entry level options, preinstalled with ChromeOS.

                    More steps to get anything done is not correct, the entire reason I use Linux at work is because it takes less steps to get things done than Windows.

                    Installing Firefox on windows:

                    1. Open browser

                    2. Search for Firefox

                    3. Click result

                    4. Find and click download button

                    5. Click .exe

                    6. Click yes on security dialog

                    7. Click next a bunch of times (I’ll be fair and make this a single step)

                    8. Launch

                    On Linux (assuming it isn’t installed by default on your distro):

                    1. Open terminal

                    2. sudo apt install Firefox

                    3. type ‘y’

                    4. Launch

                    At least double the amount of steps if you don’t include launching the browser. You’re talking absolute shit saying it’s ‘simple fact’ when I could give many other examples that objectively prove your statement false.

                    Is it more difficult to use for the average user? Sure. Is it more difficult for everyone? No.

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                That’s not the point (which is also subjective; if you are a Linux developer or uses Linux software at work it’s much harder to use Window). They implied that Linux doesn’t let you install proprietary software, which is not true and shows they don’t understand how software works. Windows software requires proprietary software from Microsoft to run. You can’t run Windows software on Linux because those components are proprietary to Microsoft and are not available for Linux, although Wine tries to reverse engineer them.

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              i’d say if you gave linux a serious try again you would change your mind, but you dont seem to want that, so i’m just gonna wish you a nice day. Maybe just keep in mind the penguin will always welcome you back if you ever get fed up with the steady evolving windows bullshit.

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                As I said the programs I need to use do not work on Linux I’ve tried to get them to work on Linux and either they straight up won’t run, or they run with terrible performance even with Wine. So it was never really my choice to like Linux.

                At that point I gave up and just went back to Windows because realistically I just don’t actually care that much. The point is if it isn’t easy to use out of the box 99% of people are just going to consider it not worthwhile.

                Besides I would only end up remoting into a Windows computer anyway in order to get work stuff done, so it just seems like unnecessarily adding a layer of complexity. Just so I can go “screw you Microsoft”. It’s not like they’ll notice.

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                Veganism for computers.

                How can you tell if somebody is a Linux user? Because they tell you, immediately, upon meeting them for the first time. Then they tell you you’re a stupid subhuman for using windows.

                It’s great fun.

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          There’s WSL on windows, I don’t wanna say it’s the same thing as wine, but yeah, you may need other programs to install linux software on windows.