You can’t do as much damage with a GUI that tells you what you’re doing in regular language vs commands.

sudo rm -rf /* means nothing to a newbie

“Reset to factory settings” is pretty freaking clear

The difference is that the touch screen stuff was a more dumbed down experience, not an increase in difficulty and options.

Then you have the security issue of comes from teaching users they should just trust whatever random people tell them to do when facing an issue with their computer.

https://youtu.be/YPiL3-CYzWk

You’re right, torture doesn’t work

Not only that, the ongoing discussion format means all knowledge is in the same place and people don’t need to keep asking the same question over and over by creating new posts and you don’t end up with the same conversation happening in three different branches of the same post like on Reddit/Lemmy.

Funny how it’s never been an issue on all my AMD setups even the ones where I fucked around with the Windows install to make it lighter.

I’ve been using Windows since 3.0, so you’re the one who can fuck off calling me a kiddo.

Sounds like the problem is between the keyboard and the chair because I’ve never had issues installing AMD drivers on Windows 10, never had Windows update issues and so on.

Maybe you would be better off getting a iPad.

The difference is that the average user won’t face those problems in the first place on Windows while they’ll have them from the first boot on Linux because driver development for Linux isn’t a priority for manufacturers.

Then the user has to figure out the solution that applies to their version of Linux (when the average person can’t tell what OS they’re using in the first place) and the solution doesn’t come from the manufacturer but from a random GitHub project or people on a Linux forum that they just need to trust even though basic computer security starts with “don’t just trust random people”.

The “What about the registry? And people have to use the terminal on Windows as well!” argument falls apart when you realize that it’s not something that will be required for the average user while it is for the average user if they use Linux. Unless you’re trying to make Windows do power user stuff you don’t even need to know that it has a terminal.

There, happy?

Yeah, I run Linux as my main OS and am able to say that it’s not ready to go mainstream, biased as fuck

All AMD hardware, Bazzite was killing my GPU as soon as there was load on it and WiFi that worked intermittently, Mint had non working WiFi on a USB antenna that is supposed to be 100% Linux compatible.

So yeah, I would love it if Linux fanatics stopped pretending that Linux is just as plug n play as Windows, it isn’t and solutions rely on trusting random people on the Internet.

The difference is that if you’re using hardware that’s compatible it just works. My current experience on Linux is that you have 100% hardware that’s supported based on what people are saying, you install one distro and your GPU shits the bed the second there’s load on it and WiFi works when it feels like it. Install another distro and the GPU works but WiFi doesn’t. In the end you spend hours troubleshooting and you’re applying solutions by trusting that people aren’t doing anything malicious when they tell you to input such and such in terminal.

On Windows? Install the OS, everything works, so no, there’s no issues with the hardware itself.

And the “small subset” of hardware it supports is anything made after 2017 and it’s only Windows 11 that doesn’t support hardware made before that.

Try to make Linux work without any outside intervention with all the hardware that Windows 11 is just compatible with out of the box, I dare you.

More user friendly doesn’t mean you won’t have to spend hours troubleshooting driver issues that you will never have on Windows, that’s a real problem…

(and when you find the solution you need to input commands in terminal that you can’t tell what they do, that’s a huge security concern as it teaches users to just trust anyone who tells them to do things they don’t understand)

Less accidents per km on highways because it’s all people going in the same direction at a more constant speed.

Yeah, OP must not spend much time around teenagers

I wonder if it might lead to some issues with European laws at some point

Pocketbook uses a Linux OS

You start by presenting it as a fact “keep in mind that it’s not because of X, but because of Y” then specify that’s it’s what you think but don’t provide any proof of, therefore there’s nothing important to note about what you said because you can’t back it with a source.

It’s not important to note something that is speculative.

“It’s important to note that YarHarSuperstar probably doesn’t even run Linux.”

See?

“it’s important to note that [insert speculation]”

Lemm.ee/instances

But there’s this website that also tells you if other instances are defederated from yours: defed.xyz