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Uh, no I had an absolutely normie non-tech brother who came to me asking me to install him Linux. It was Debian. He wanted something rock stable. He never looked back since.

Linux is not just a technomaniac’s dream or a product of our privacy/configurability/something-else-maximalism. While many of us come there looking for that, we end up with much more - a truly snappy system, without bloat, without all distractions, automatic updates, and corporate shit pushed on.

As that same brother said to me: “It’s such peace and quiet. You turn on your PC - and you’re all set to do whatever you have to do”

Also, Linux with reasonable modern DEs doesn’t ever require a normie to go terminal. Like, at all. It’s just that Lemmy users are more techy, and they’d need such advanced features in Windows too.

If you ask me, one of the primary reasons normies don’t regularly use Linux is because they don’t know what Linux even is. For them Windows is computer. Then there are some who know of Linux, but think “it’s more of a server thing”. Then there are some who played around with it in VM, but saw it more as a toy. And then there are brave souls who actually did a switch.

For all I know, most of the latter never looked back.

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Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
So your brother could not install it themselves because they were unable to.

Which wouldn’t have been the case with Windows on any new computer.

Thanks for proving their point.

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- Sanyanov@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Well, it’s not a Linux problem, it’s adoption problem.
  
  Linux is easier to install than Windows, it takes 5 minutes of your time without any special knowledge to install any distro through Calamares, which is now a standard for most of them.
  
  Normies are just afraid of the procedure and think they can “break their computer” with this. They can’t.
  
  Solution? Preinstall Linux! A few laptops actually are now shipped with Linux preinstalled, and that’s a good, even if humble, beginning.
  
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Default_Defect@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What does he use his computer for?

Every time I do a deep dive and look into switching to linux, I look to the comments on post to see how the other normies are doing and I always see past the people that clearly either 1- Know what they’re doing and exactly how to fix things and 2- the people that do very basic stuff with their install and look for the one that have specific hardware or use cases. They are the ones that talk about having an issue with this or that and having to search forums to find a solution or distro hop for one reason or another.

I don’t have the patience to fix the issues and learn the quirks that I know I’ll run into. Linux just isn’t quite there for a lot of people and I’m one of them.

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- Sanyanov@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Mostly browsing, document processing, and gaming.
  
  I recognize the arguments you have, but, being more on a power user side, I rarely have to fix anything either. But maybe that’s me.
  
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