It’s a different paradigm for windows users. “Why won’t this exe/msi install on my computer?”
But also, once you realize the unlimited potential to customize it’s pretty special. I, for one, hate using anything without a tiling windows manager.
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someguy3@lemmy.world 1 month agoUm is there anything special to use Linux? Click the GUI.
hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So how do you install things?
hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Red hat based? Install the RPM. Debian based? Install the deb, generally? Install from the repository. You can also install from source if you’d like
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t know what any of that means.
emax_gomax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well installing it. That alone requires a challenge most folks probably couldn’t overcome easily. People are accustomed to just getting a computer with a working os on it. Changing that os would be pretty hard for them.
doctortran@lemm.ee 1 month ago
And let’s be real, you at least need a degree of tech savvy to deal with the inevitable issues that will come up. Even on the simplest distro.
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 month ago
IDK, only times when I broke things on Debian were when I made the unwise decisions to do things I don’t fully understand (that doesn’t really happen now). And my elderly mom uses Mint with less problems than she did Windows.
piccolo@ani.social 1 month ago
Depending on the distro, its generally no harder than windows… infact it probably easier since you dont have to go male an MS account.
emax_gomax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean buying a usb, installing imaging software, not messing up the drive your try to create the installer on. That’s already a lot harder than most tech illiterate people that just need to buy a computer.