Newbies are new users. Also the average Joe doesn’t know or even want to know that MacOS is a BSD. MacOS is mostly so successful because of marketing, walled gardening and a pretty good eco system. It has its fair share of bugs. And not just software side but also on the hardware side.
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mathlad@lemmy.world 1 year agoIt maybe better to not refer new users as newbies. People know the unixt system under the very successful product that is MacOS. Why is MacOS successful? Because it is easy to use and is a complete products with few bugs. I used to use Ubuntu, and before that kde btw.
DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 year ago
Dnn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What? Only techies know that, 99% users don’t and wouldn’t care.
mathlad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Are we being overly anal about semantics here? I never said kde is a distro. I just said I used Ubuntu, as in the pure Ubuntu from Canonical, and before that Kubuntu, or Ubuntu with the Plasma Desktop environment KDE. There, it has been a long time since I last used them so I did not remember the name Kubuntu.
Also MacOS is popular because its users don’t have to care that it is a Unix system. You basically just repeated my point. I have never been an Apple fan (my phones were all Android phones), but, well, “it just works” anyone?
Dnn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Usually not but your whole activity in this thread reads like you’re just hating on Linux for some reason: “too diverse!” “it destroyed my ssd!” (which I doubt). In that context your claim to have been a user just looks like a half-truth to give yourself some credibility.
Anyway, back to the actual topic: I don’t care about mass-adoption. Everything turns to shit when the masses pour over it. In my opinion, Lemmy has reached the critical amount of contributors to get it going, except more actual scientists maybe.