@merchantHelios @RegalBeagle Linux on the desktop is easy, it's not Linux's fault that Big Normie is an NPC.

@yockeypuck @RegalBeagle my statement wasnt about ease of use. it was about it actually working at all. linux just requires too much fiddling to get worse functionality than on win10, when you can install a browser and steam on microshit and not have to think about literally anything else

@yockeypuck @merchantHelios @RegalBeagle I've been full time Linux for something like 16 years at this point. It's not perfect but its light years better than windows in my humble.

@Escoffier @yockeypuck @RegalBeagle for what

@merchantHelios @Escoffier @yockeypuck Back in the day, you popped in a DVD with the OS live image, hit next a couple times, and you had Ubuntu going in an hour or so. Now you gotta create a new bootable partition in windows, flash the image to it, find the bootable partition in BIOS, install OS, then delete the partition if you wanna keep secureboot and Windows happy.

@RegalBeagle @merchantHelios @yockeypuck I believe you can still run most Linux that way?

@Escoffier @merchantHelios @yockeypuck You can disable secureboot and tpm, but windows can detect that. Seem to remember seeing something about certain apps requiring these on to work properly, but that might be fake news.

Every normie I've installed Ubuntu for has loved it. Only thing is they don't know how to move it to a new PC when they upgrade machines. Hardware vendor issue, IMO

@RegalBeagle @merchantHelios @yockeypuck I've ended up trying bunches of different distros and none were bad but honestly i always end up back on Ubuntu. It just works.

@merchantHelios @yockeypuck @RegalBeagle Laptop desktop. Home use.

@Escoffier @merchantHelios @yockeypuck I blame Microshit and hardware vendors. The average user has no use or TPM, secureboot, or bitlocker. Reminder to all the Windows folks: write down your bitlocker key!

Lots of NPCs don't actually "use" a computer, they memorize steps to get what they want. The abstract concepts common to all computers are unknown to them, meant for nerds only. They've never heard of Linux. Windows is computers to them. The two things they do for their job is computers to them. Facebook is computers to them. If something looks a way they don't expect, they panic. Actually reading what's on the screen is the last thing they'll do because computers are hard, and all the words are confusing.

Source: Three decades in the industry.

@MeanwhileInOhio @RegalBeagle @merchantHelios @yockeypuck Most normies won't, and maybe couldn't use Linux, sadly.

They don't want to. That's all. There's nothing more to it.

@MeanwhileInOhio @RegalBeagle @merchantHelios @yockeypuck I've tried to get some normies on and the first time they hit something different from Windows they typically bail.

I play dumb now and refuse to help people. I've wasted enough of my life.

@Escoffier @MeanwhileInOhio @RegalBeagle @merchantHelios @yockeypuck Can you imagine your mom getting a printer to work in Linux?

@Seattle_Guy @MeanwhileInOhio @RegalBeagle @merchantHelios @yockeypuck Fuck sake *i* can't do that. But i'm still sticking with Linix.

Printers are their own unique disaster area. Nothing has been improved about them since Windows 95.

@MeanwhileInOhio @Escoffier @merchantHelios @Seattle_Guy @yockeypuck It's weird that my 3d printer gives me less problems than any traditional printer ever has. Could be that I only ever print stl files off an SD card, though. I'm too scared to use the USB interface.

@Seattle_Guy @MeanwhileInOhio @RegalBeagle @merchantHelios @yockeypuck I've actually had to buy different printers to find one that was plug and play.

@Seattle_Guy @MeanwhileInOhio @Escoffier @merchantHelios @yockeypuck Printers are the spawn of Satan. I run Fedora these days. Manjaro was the only distro I've ever had give me problems. I've had co-workers call me because they can't be bothered to read compiler errors and type filepaths correctly, probably the easiest of errors to solve. It's not just normies, code monkeys can be just as incompetent.