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Passerby6497@lemmy.world 13 hours agothey are not wrong that for the regular person, who struggles with even the most basic IT shit, there still isn’t a full “finished” option for them,
My dead mother, who couldn’t run windows for more than 6 months without trashing the install used mint without issue for years before she died in lil 22.If my tech illiterate mother can do it, just about anyone can.
The average user basically just needs a web browser and some office tools. If they can’t figure out how to use those in a different interface, they probably need to attend a ‘remedial computers 01’ course.
Facebook works just as well on Linus as windows. Most people are too scared to try, not unable to use it in my experience.
Soup@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Did you set it up for her? A normal person is not going to grab a USB and get Linux going on their own computer. And then there are all the distros where even savvy people can’t agree on what’s best and will be like “oh Mint and Ubuntu are both good options” and even having to choose and commit would be a big deal for most people, especially if they don’t have anyone who can help them with it.
It’s not about actually using it so much as it is the barrier to entry. I know that we know it’s actually not that difficult or crazy, but the layman sees basically any computer stuff as magic.