• shalafi@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Outside of my tech career, I’ve never met a human that knows the word “Linux”. I don’t mean how it works, I mean they’ve never heard the word. Those same people don’t know what an operating system is. “Uh, is that like Apple?”

      • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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        5 hours ago

        I think that’s what linux fanatics don’t understand. Their answer to everything is: just install linux, it’s perfect.

        Something didn’t work, what now?

        "Oh you have a nvidia graphics card? Hahaha, okay now you go to this website and copy 32 lines of code.

        That’s all nice and all, do i have to explain that to my sister who is always proud when she doubleclicks fast enough?