• ikidd@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I walked my 83 year old dad through a Linux Mint install on his laptop over the phone a few weeks ago when the Windows install shit the bed. All he needs is a browser, he’s good now.

    Get out of here with that “software engineering degree” BS.

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        It is easier more than ever to install linux today.

        The issue boils down to the fact that the number of people that never installed an OS is pretty high.

        Most people buy their laptop and roll with the OS installed. Microsoft paid a lot to be the default choice and we have the market we have today.

        But if you check your email and browse internet, any OS will work.

        The strength and weakness of Linux, is that there is many ways to skin a cat. But it can get confusing really fast, even if you are tech savvy.

        Habits die hard and Microsoft and Apple were pretty good at capturing the market.

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            The process to install Ubuntu vs Windows is pretty much the same.

            Create a user, choose a timezone, connect to Wi-Fi or LAN and wait for setup to finish. It is not complicated by any mean.

            As I mentioned, most people never install an OS in their life, so they don’t know how to create a boot drive and install an OS.

            So the issue isn’t that installing Linux is complicated, it’s that installing an OS on an empty drive is not a thing that the vast majority of pc users has done or will ever do.

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      7 months ago

      Lmfao guess he doesn’t need you to help him setup his email port settings or have any issues with audio drivers or any of the other common issues we see with Linux installs.

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        Why would a random 83 year old set up his own email port configs? He signs into gmail.com like everyone else, let’s be realistic if we’re gonna talk shit

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          I worked for an ISP residential tech support for 3 years. Don’t tell me what’s realistic lmfao. I experienced it very, very often. And they sure as fuck couldn’t do it in windows.

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            7 months ago

            We can compare anecdotes if you want, I’ve been in tech twice as long as you were and I can count on one hand the number of people doing their own IMAP setup. That remains the same if you go back to me being a child.

            There’s no need to be a dick man, this is a nerd forum for awarding fake internet points. Chill out.

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              Still in tech, 9 years now lol. Again. People do and they run into issue with it. Denying my perspective and acting like it’s invalid is obnoxious.

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        7 months ago

        No, because like 99% of people on this planet, he uses webmail, and I haven’t seen audio fail out of the box on a Linux install in 15 years.

        Roflmao lol omg bbq

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          99% of the planet don’t use webmail. Fair that you haven’t seen one. I’ve read it recently and often though so :shrug: