• IndiBrony@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Why wouldn’t a lot of people be on Linux?

    Because dumb people like me are too scared to leave what we know and have always heard that you need to actually know a thing or two instead of just relying on modern user-“friendly” systems to do it all for you.

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      1 year ago

      @IndiBrony
      I’ve come to the conclusion that the user friendly part is just plain wrong. how many times have i struggled on Windows with something but managed fine on linux.

      of course there are actual things that are more difficult but that’s only because so much more is possible with linux.

      advanced users wouldn’t notice a difference and advanced user appreciate the difference.
      @CoupleOfConcerns @linux

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      1 year ago

      That’s not really true nowadays. Linux Mint is easier to learn than Windows. Unless you want to play certain games, in which case you might have to tinker with Wine and Lutris.

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        1 year ago

        Honestly with things like Heroic it’s unlikely that you really need to “tinker” much regardless.

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      Well there’s the fact that it’s somewhat true as for example if you use a chromium based browser on Linux hardware acceleration isn’t enabled by default and borderline doesn’t work a lot of the time.

      Doesn’t sound so bad till you realise what it does to battery life on a laptop.

      I love Linux and we are so close but it’s small things like that, which prevent me getting friends and family to use it consistently.