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What are the silliest reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux? (no.lastname.nz)
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The best one I've ever heard is they like the Microsoft wallpapers. Yes i told them you can use them on linux too. But they argued with me that they wouldn't be compatible.

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[-] CaperGrrl79@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

I have a lot of geek/nerd friends who know their way around it, but the one excuse I've seen, for anyone who has heard of it, is the stigma that you have to use the terminal and need to be a "programmer". Which is why, for those people, I just call it Mint Operating System.

[-] Statick@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

I have a friend in IT who spent a couple hours researching Windows 10 LTSC and then installing it, running the masgrave script, then running all the debloat scripts... instead of just installing Bazzite or CachyOS because "I don't want to have to use the command line for everything".

And then we (Linux users in general) get called elitists for trying to educate them ๐Ÿ˜‚.

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