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So many people forget that while they understand how to use a Linux terminal and how Linux on a high level works, not everyone does. Plus, learning all of that takes time, effort, and tenacity, which not everyone is willing to do. Linus's whole conclusion was that as long as that learning curve exists and as long as it's that easy to shoot yourself in the foot, Linux desktop just isn't viable for a lot of people.
But Linus has done a lot of public fuck ups therefore everything he says must be inherently wrong.
Linux is free if you don't value your time.
I spend far more time dealing with issues in Windows than I do Manjaro. I only boot my windows partition when I absolutely have to
How many years have you been using Linux?
Also relevant:
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/6754380
Fewer years than I've been using windows. 20 years of Linux, 25 years of Windows. I personally think the stigma that Linux has is due to the past. I would agree that it was difficult at points in the past.
The thing is that your 20 years greatly skews your perspective on what easy is compared to someone who has never used it. And I agree, it's never been better, but for a lot of people, it just isn't there yet.
My main issue with it is that it's so fractured, it's greatest strength is also it's greatest weakness OSS often lacks standardisation and Linux is a victim of that.
Its slowly getting there, I mean I think it's awesome that SystemD is used by so many distros, it's some commonality between them all.
But then you get Ubuntu trying to be smart and using dash, then it breaks scripts and I want to scream. So there are those actively making it worse, lol.