• yokonzo@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Bet, go ahead and grab your parents or the nearest old fart you know who isn’t tech savvy and try to get them to install linux, libre Office, and thunderbird and attempt to use it.

    $100 says they won’t make it through using rufus without help

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      4 months ago

      I wouldn’t do that. I installed the software for them and set up their email and showed them how to do things. Linux was harder to set up back when I did that. Printers were a headache especially

      But once set up a Linux box is no harder to use than a windows or apple one

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        4 months ago

        Of course, none of us would actually do that, but what I’m trying to say is that’s the threshold. For linux to become mainstream like plenty of users on here seem to vehemently believe, it HAS to start taking cues from windows, that means easier install methods, dumbed down and less terminal based procedures, and more support from mainstream and less open source software manufacturers. Otherwise the average person is going to look at linux and say “that looks hard.” full stop.

        And I would reckon a lot of those changes would not go over well with current Linux userbase