• JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works
    27·
    2 days ago

    I use Windows, but for the Win12 beta Microsoft asked for my firstborn son as a sacrificial offering.
    I mean I didn’t like him anyway, but I just thought that was a bit weird.

    The nVidia drivers seem decent though.

      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        22 hours ago

        The user unfriendliness of linux is not a selling point. If you want to make an actual difference to our technological ecosystem and break the windows monopoly then it should matter to you that most people aren’t technically proficient enough to use linux without extra help, because that guarantees it’s never going to succeed at that goal.

  • Norin@lemmy.world
    801·
    3 days ago

    Somewhere, the one remaining user of Temple OS just woke up in a cold sweat.

  • Smorty [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    4·
    2 days ago

    Real question: does any windows user actually like the OS?

    I sometimes disagree with decisions made with GNOME, but at least I know was not made by a company, thus not made for profit and also it’s Foss. And that always outweighs these bad decisions.

    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      22 hours ago

      I hate it, but as a person with a lot of technical requirements on my software and system, there are use cases that I simply cannot use linux for. I’m developing a mod for Satisfactory right now, and a conversation I saw in the community was about how nobody has ever gotten the dev environment running in linux. That and other use cases make it virtually impossible for me to switch.

      And dual booting is a non-starter. I’m not going to reboot my entire system just to check my email because I don’t trust windows with my login details. That’s absurd. I need access to those things all the time and I’m not going to keep a second high-maintenance system on hand out of a sense of principle.

      Virtualising is also a non-starter because I need every little bit of performance I can get out of my machine, and again, operating a second high maintenance system which the original system now sits atop an extra stack which itself requires maintenance… yeah, no, I have things that need to be done. If one day I can afford to have a second gaming machine set up to tinker with then maybe, but that’s asking a lot.

    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      4·
      2 days ago

      There are parts of it I like more and more.

      The fact that it mostly just works. That very little important has changed since Windows 95 when it comes to the core user experience.

      When they tried changing things (Vista, Windows 8 “Metro”) users revolted, and the following versions were more conservative and popular (Windows 7, Win 10).

      Who knows, maybe internally they’ve decided on a bimodal release cycle:

      1. Break stuff, make changes.
      2. Return to nostalgia (but refine and keep the priority targets).

      Maybe it’s like a relationship with an abusive partner. They hurt you (privacy violations, desktop advertisements, etc., ) but then they make up, and make it hard to live without them.

      • Lem Jukes@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        Richard Stallman bursts through the wall ”IVE NEVER INSTALLED GNU/LINUX!”

        To actually answer you: Linux itself isn’t what most computer users would understand as an ‘operating system’. GNU/Linux is a family of software packages that are used to build an operating system but there is no ‘Linux OS’ the way there is Windows. And SteamOS is poised to be the best shot at significantly increasing the market share of gnu/Linux based operating systems in the general population. The steam deck is basically just the pilot program for the full release of an OS what, a decade in the making? That said, most people aren’t really going to care let alone understand the nuances of Linux/gnu/foss/kernals/etc. and so Steam OS, though a distro build on GNu/Linux technology, is going to look like its own thing to most outside observers.

        If this is flawed please feel free to correct me!

    • buttfarts@lemy.lol
      2·
      2 days ago

      Lemmy feels like wet underwear but its like warm wet so if you just kinda go with it and forget that it feels weird then you’re not actually uncomfortable.

  • Sidhean@lemmy.world
    20·
    3 days ago

    Haha good comic. Linus really speaks the truth when wondows says that haha funni.

    I use Mint btw

  • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
    269·
    3 days ago

    It really feels like that here on Lemmy.

    I get it, it is a great OS. But thinking it is for everyone is just plain stupid.

    • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
      231·
      3 days ago

      For everyone? I agree, that’s silly. It’s definitely suitable for more than the tiny fraction of people who use it though

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
        8·
        3 days ago

        Sure, because they have someone like you.

        Most families don’t have that luxury. If their OS breaks, they bring it back to the shop.

        • 1ostA5tro6yne@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          4·
          2 days ago

          funny thing, i haven’t had to fix my wife’s computer once since i got her to switch to manjaro nearly a year ago. when she was on windows i had to help her fix something at least once a month.

          funnier thing, the guy at the shop probably uses linux and knows how to fix that too.

  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
    141·
    3 days ago

    I should try this tactic to attract some femboi to install gentoo for me or have they moved on to NixOS by now?

    • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      User friendly is pretty vague but if we’re talking about the average user who uses the computer to browse the web, play some games on Steam with friends and do some document editing that is all covered. Linux Mint would be an excellent option. The installation is arguably easier than Windows (because you won’t get all those pesky telemetry and data gathering questions), visually it looks and functions similarly to Windows, most standard software is handled by a package manager so no using terminal to install things and the distro prefers stability and ease of access over fancy bells and whistles.

      If there are any user issues they’re most likely because of third party developer not properly supporting Linux and there’s nothing Linux can do. One example is anti-cheat for games. You can’t play Riot games on Linux simply because their anti-cheat won’t allow you to play their games on Linux and there’s nothing Linux devs can do about it.

      I don’t know when was the last time you used Linux but I’d say the user experience has definitely improved in the last 10 years. It’s gotten to a point where I’m actually willing to recommend Linux to users whose needs I’m familiar with and know they not going to have some weird needs that need the use of a terminal.