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The Linux series was one of the best, because it showed what would happen if someone who didn’t know what they were doing tried to move to Linux. Linux shills have been preaching “it’s the year of the Linux desktop” forever now, but since it’s so different from windows and macOS there’s a massive learning curve that only shows up once you’ve switched.
I would bet 8/10 people who have used windows/macOS for 30+ years would have many of the same problems as Linus did. I know I’ve made many of the same mistakes that were made by Linus/Luke in that series, including accidentally nuking my DE.
Linux sucks as a desktop if you aren’t already familiar with Linux from the terminal. There’s a few edge cases, but for the most part it’s not a good experience if you do anything more than web browsing.
I’m no Linus shill, though I do enjoy their content for the most part. He’s not a tech god like people make him out to be, he’s just a slightly above average tech nerd who’s a good presenter. And that’s the audience that the Linux shills are trying to push the OS onto.
I think what you're saying is that Linux desktop is going to be a bad experience if you come in with your expectations from macos or windows. In neither of those can you "accidentally" uninstall your de because you're not reading terminal prompt.
This kinds of problems are for people who think they know what they're doing
Tech doesn't get wider adoption if you expect every user to know what they're doing. And without wider adoption, devs don't get on board and apps don't get made. Lowering the learning curve improves the experience for everybody, especially with linux where we can have different distributions with different target audiences.
I agree, but we're not there yet. As of now, you'll need to at least try to read what you're approving in terminal
But to avoid this you could run a VM and restore to a snapshot but that's not really switching to Linux. Windows/Mac users should generally not just jump into Linux but transition to it.