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Who says linux is bad? At worst people say it's too hard for them to use at home, but i never heard someone say it's bad.
I’ve heard people make the argument that Linux is bad because it’s too hard to use.
First inpressions matter. The thing most people want operating systems to do is get out of the way. And while using Linux is great (so long as your software supports it), setting it up is not seamless. If you want to install Linux, new users have to spend 8 hours surfing 20 boards to be told 30 different answers about which distro to use. And that's before you even get started.
If you want to install Windows, you just fucking install Windows.
It's bad to recommend to less tech-literate people. It's bad to force on someone in general.
Who is forcing Linux on anyone?
I've had an IT guy try to make me use Linux. I tried and failed, so he put Windows back on. I felt shame.
Doubt these retards just need a web browser and itunes oh wait I see.
Typical Linux distributions are almost objectively harder to use than Android. I'd be surprised if anyone really disagrees with this. When someone complains about Linux being hard to use, it's the POSIX-based Linux distributions that must support arbitrary hardware (often poorly so) that they refer to. I don't need to care about installing NVidia drivers and whether they're compatible with EFI handover when I buy an Android phone.
So are Windows and macOS.
Sorry I don't follow your point.
I think they meant that the comparison should be between desktop OSes.
The fact that the meme mentions desktop and phone OSes is probably because one is likely to use both.
You do need to worry about whether or not your phone is locked to a specific carrier and if its the carrier you want to use the phone with. or, if its a phone you want to bring to another network, you have to figure our if you need to argue with your current carrier to get it unlocked.
To piggyback off this, Windows is also "harder" than Android. You need to reinstall Windows due to an update fuckup? You tried building your own PC? Well, you either fork.over $120 for an installation media, or you have to create your own, then learn how to boot into the BIOS to boot from that media, then you need to scour the internet for not only your Nvidia driver, but your audio driver, WiFi driver, integrated graphics driver (if you have and want to use an IGPU) and possibly motherboard drivers if your mobo has some odd implementation that requires a driver for USB 3.1 to work properly.
None of these operating systems are "harder" than another. You are just used to one over the other. You don't use your automatic transmission car skills trying to drive a manual transmission, unless your goal is to crash and burn.
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massgrave proves my point. The user has to go out of their way to find and run that script.
Linux would just work ootb. No activation needed. Ergo; Linux is easier than Windows.
It's poor form to say an apple tastes worse than an orange because its purely opinion. Theres no fact. I was trying to show the original reply is nonsensical, because for some, Android is harder than Linux. Android may not be what someone is used to.
Usually people who installed it yesterday and are mad it doesn’t behave exactly like the OS they’ve been using for the last 20 years (which they also had to learn how to use)
TBF it does have a glaring lack of automation for way too much of the basics. Even hand holding distros like Mint will have you using the terminal for something windows just does with a double click.
FTR I prefer Linux over Windows but I still lose it every time installation instructions for some app have 4 pages of commands for the CLI instead of just running an installer that automates the BS.
Maybe 10 years ago, but for me installing anything is done with a single command (pacman or yay)
Are you using some sort of niche software?
Every piece of software that doesn't come with the default repositories, which in many distros includes the 'niche' software of vidcard drivers. Samba network sharing v1, disabled in both Windows and Linux, is a simple double click of the app feature to reenable in Windows. In Linux, you have to change entries in at least 2 files, assuming you can find correct instructions in the first place.
I mean you have to find those check boxes in Windows too.
I do think some things in Linux are still not super user friendly, but for example installing apps is much better. Sure something may not be in the repo, even if some distros have impressively vast ones, but even that is easily solved with flatpak and appimage nowadays.
Samba v1 has been disabled by default for years in Windows, because of security concerns. If m$ is even warning against using it, you probably shouldn't use it.
Enabling something that's deprecated as fuck is not a very good example.
Hey, you know what is a good example? Every app not included in the default app repository. But, you conveniently skipped that to make a useless point. GG.
It's not that Linux is bad, it's the fans of it that are annoying
Ok. How is that relevant to the post or the comment?
It's responding to "you say Linux is bad". If you pretend the funny cat picture is someone talking, and my comment is someone talking back, it makes sense.
Apparently, non-cats.
It's a meme, you just got on the internet yesterday, huh?
So it's just not true at all, got it lol