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Nelots@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

They have been suffering for years and never thought once about alternatives like Ubuntu

The average user is pretty unaffected by windows’ enshitification. And if it doesn’t fuck over their daily life, most people are more than happy to keep using the thing they’re familiar with. Especially when switching would require not only learning one new thing, but a large number of new things. For example, do you use paint.net? Sucks to suck, time to find a Linux alternative and learn how to use it and hope it can do everything you need it for.

Linux fanatics like to pretend its as simple as installing a different OS and that’s it, everything else in your workflow will work immediately with no research needed. But that’s simply not true.

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drkt_@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

… everything else in your workflow will work immediately with no research needed.

I’ll put it simply for you: You can spend a few hours figuring out a new workflow, or you can spend the rest of your life fighting a losing battle against a megacorporation that has it out for you that will also randomly upend on your workflow.

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- Nelots@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Im not saying sticking with windows is the better option. Im just saying people should stop acting like it’s a one and done switch with no extra effort needed.
  
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  - drkt_@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Nothing in life takes no effort. I’m only advocating on the basis that Windows has become more of an effort to stick with than Linux has become to learn.
    
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heavydust@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

The average user is pretty unaffected

The average user complains about Windows all the time around me and I have to fix their crap constantly. It is fucking over their daily life, either by preventing them from working or by swallowing their files into a black hole. Windows users at work don’t care about it, but around me when it’s their personal computer, it’s a disaster.

switching would require not only learning one new thing, but a large number of new things

Any Ubuntu from 10 years ago is identical to the latest Windows. It’s laziness, fear, or being hostage, but it’s certainly not learning something new. Also, Windows 11 is completely different from the previous versions and it didn’t seem to bother them.

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