• joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    If Linux was fine, then I wouldn’t have gone to the trouble of looking for an alternative and taken the time to teach myself Linux. I don’t know anybody else who uses it so it’s not like somebody twisted my arm

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      1 year ago

      This, why does every linux elitist think that an average person that probably struggles to keep their phone’s ram free (one of my family members does that, they have like 20 apps open on a phone with 3gb or ram) will be willing to learn a ton of terminal commands and learn all the other stuff like flashing the os on a usb stick or learning how to fix something they expect there to be working by default (ahem, like sound drivers for example, the classic)

      My hot take, that’s why I think arch is just for the little group of people that are willing to possibly have to troubleshoot their computer every time they use it, hell I use linux (lubuntu xfce, my pc is a potato) and I’m probably never going to attempt to install arch since I don’t want to deal with the crappy responsibilities it comes, and the group that use it act like it’s the best thing ever and everyone should switch to it

      TL;DL Linux would already have a lot more users if it was easy to install and use by non techy people, not everyone wants to tinker with everything or try to fix something they expect to work, and some people are toxic to others to scare them away, lowering the potential amount of people

      Edit: I misspelled something

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        1 year ago

        Something like Linux Mint is just as easy to install as Windows, if not easier. No tinkering, fixing, fussing with the terminal. It just works.

        Also worth noting that modern smartphones manage RAM automatically. Having a bunch of apps “open” isn’t an issue.

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          honestly endeavouros and fedora (at least the i3 spin) are really easy too and you don’t even need a mouse… (yes windows does for some parts of the installer.)