Comment on Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome

• ratman150@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The average user doesn’t need Windows.

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  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The average user is too stupid to learn keyboard shortcuts that’d save them time at work

    People learned windows, it’s what they know. Maybe we can train the next gen on Linux startig young, but unlikely given “we know windows tho” from parents

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    • null@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And yet those seem people often have no problem picking up and using a Chromebook.

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    • Soundhole@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People learned Chrome. What’s the difference? 80% of folks need to know where the browser button is and that’s about it. The rest of them are savvy enough figure Linux out.

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nah, they’ll just not learn to use a PC.

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  • thejml@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As someone who loves Linux and has run it since the mid nineties, the average user doesn’t need Linux either. They just need something that works and is familiar and easy to use. As much as I hate to say it, my 70+ year old parents like windows, are comfortable with it and it just works for them. I value my and their time enough to not put them on Linux.

    Making them learn linux at this point is counterproductive. I actually started teaching them Ubuntu a few years back. It worked for what they did then, but they’ve started branching out and need it to work easily for devices that only have Windows drivers and don’t work well under wine. I gave up and they’ve been happy ever since.

    It’s important to realize that any OS is a tool, and using the right one for the job is always the best way to accomplish what needs to be done. I prefer Linux and MacOS, they prefer Windows.

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  • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Leave it to the Linux community to start a discussion about Linux under a post that isn’t at all related to Linux.

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  • Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At home I use me personal pc dor 95% gaming via gamepass

    Fix that then we can talk

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    • Glitchington@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s what Gamepass is for, keeping you on Microsofts playground. You aren’t installing PC games, they essentially provide you with Xbox games and an “emulator” that runs them. It won’t be fixed because it heards folks to Windows, as intended.

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      • Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Gamepass games aren’t emulated. They’re installed and run natively just like anything else. Some of them are harder to mod than other platforms, but this is largely due to file permissions and ownership issues and the way some games are packaged/configured.

        I don’t really like the service because I prefer not to rent my games monthly, but that just isn’t correct.

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      • Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ll need to remember that they force developers to build xbox versions of Windows only games just for gamepass

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• RadButNotAChad@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not sure why you’re getting shit on. Actually, I do know. Many people think everyone is as tech savvy as they are. It would blow many people’s minds they could install an operating system. Their computer comes with it like their iPhone comes with iOS. A lot of people just can’t figure things out for themselves. They can google it, but then will see a bunch of crazy commands to copy and paste. And there’s a good chance that if they do ask for some help. People will tell them their dumb and should be able to figure things out on their own and that linux is too much for them.

  Also, this is from a guy who can use Linux at an average level.

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And always will as long as people like you keep it that way

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• WoodenBleachers@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thank you. I can use Linux. I don’t want to. Plenty of people are still computer illiterate and people forget that. My father uses excel on windows every day for his job, but couldn’t use a mac because he just knows his Windows. He got confused that the taskbar disappeared lol. Linux would blow his mind. Yes, if you’re training someone on the new OS it’d be no different, but so many people only know certain windows programs.

  Also, audio SUCKS on Linux (speaking from running PipeWire and ALAX and Pulse). Try explaining to someone how to fix that mess.

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• TheBananaKing@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeap. I’m a sysadmin, I work in a linux shop, we provide a linux desktop to our users.

  And I use windows both at home and on my work machine, for sheer quality of life. I don’t have the time or energy to deal with the shitty UX and gotchas of the linux desktop experience.

  For actual computing tasks, I ssh into a linux box, from my nice comfy just-works windows environment. Between Windows Terminal, VcXsrv and SSHFS, I have all the integration I need for a seamless experience.

  Use individual tools for what they’re best at, and play to their strengths.

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• puppy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Linux is perfect for the average user. Install KDE Neon or Kubuntu for them and they won’t know which is which. They will only notice that their computer has become faster. Corporate world and gaming is stil the only two areas Linux hasn’t surpassed Windows (fully).

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