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echodot@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Regardless of the reason the problem remains that there is no consistent design distro to distro and that’s a problem for the end user. If we’re ever going to have “year of Linux” then the developers are going to have to get over themselves and stop with the idea that everyone who is going to use their platform is technologically inclined.

Otherwise it’s always outgoing to just be for the techies. Can you imagine your grandparents trying to use Linux and then looking stuff up on their own and then doing something wrong because they don’t know what distro they’re on? Nightmare.

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hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Can you imagine your grandparents trying to use Linux and then looking stuff up on their own and then doing something wrong because they don’t know what distro they’re on? Nightmare.

My mom is in no way technically inclined. Quite the opposite in fact. She’s been using Ubuntu since 2015. My dad used to try to switch her back to Windows once in a while, and she’d yell at him that she hated it, then he’d switch her back. My dad finally came around a couple years ago after getting a Steam Deck, and now he uses Fedora.

Funnily enough, since Ubuntu and Fedora both use Gnome, they have the same interface. I also use Fedora and Bazzite. All of these OSes use Gnome. They all have the same interface (when Bazzite is in Desktop Mode).

So, really, I don’t know what you’re on about.

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taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

problem remains that there is no consistent design distro to distro

You might have had a point if you wrote that back in the days before phone UIs and Windows versions and websites all completely redesigning their UIs every 5 minutes but this is clearly nonsense at this point.

Can you imagine your grandparents trying to use Linux and then looking stuff up on their own and then doing something wrong because they don’t know what distro they’re on? Nightmare.

No, actually the actual nightmare is them using Windows and asking me about it on the phone and me having to talk them through mouse clicks in an unfamiliar GUI instead of just telling them which command to enter in the terminal like I would on a sane OS like Linux.

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AugustWest@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There is no problem. Yes, they pretty much are consistent distro to distro. Desktop to Desktop is a bit different but not by much.

My grandparents have had a much easier time with Linux than Windows. Both environments would be confusing to look up if something goes wrong. Fortunately since linux packages are updated together, not much goes wrong. Cant say that for windows. Stuff is always popping up and asking questions and changing.

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