People go to computer stores?
Comment on [deleted]
Mio@feddit.nu 8 months ago
As long as you can’t see Linux machines in normal computer stores it will not happen. Users never get the opportunity to experience it. Today there is no killer feature really like the other OS have.
Plopp@lemmy.world 8 months ago
silva@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Yes, non-linux users
Plopp@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t think I remember the last time I heard about someone, Linux user or not, going to a computer store. In fact, I don’t even know if there are computer stores around here anymore.
jj4211@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Most likely Best Buy, Office Depot, or Wal Mart for the typical brick and mortar. Apple Stores too, but that’s a bit beside the point.
Office Depot gets benefits like a workspace where “hey, a laptop broke, we’ll get it warranty repaired, but in the mean time hop over to Office Depot and charge whatever because we need a replacement right this minute”. Strangely, even after all this time, there are folks that still need to touch and poke and ask questions before they settle.
Online is great if you are very particular and know what you want and can afford to wait a day or two because you want a somewhat less popular model. If you aren’t too particular, want some in person reassurances, or in a great hurry, then brick and mortar still wins.
silva@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
I don’t know about where you live, but in Switzerland there are still stores where you can buy computers. In fact, all computers my parents ever bought are from computer stores.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Plenty of big box stores here carry computers. There are also also electronics megastores like Mediamarkt, Saturn, and others.
m3t00@lemmy.world 8 months ago
here i was thinking i must be doing it wrong my last 5 rrigs from newegg. latest build
Stegget@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m people, does microcenter count?
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Maybe if framework gets big?
Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
The killer features(for me) are: Privacy(by Default), Opensource, Decent performance on old hardware, looks pretty(variable), basic software compatibility(else i would just use TempleOS)
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Not once you get on the Web.
I don’t know what you call old. Also not once you get on the Web.
Yessir, and for me that could be a sufficient reason alone. Sad that conkeror is no more usable for a browser.
Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Atleast i am acutely aware of what is phoning home(Unlike M$), I avoid G services like the plague, but whenever i am forced to use them they sit in a separate FF profile, I know what links what and who are in kahoots with whom: If you take the approach that going on the web is equivalent to waltzing in a big public market square, and apply the appropriate precautions, you can ensure you’re late night pillow searches are never linked back to your G account.
My hardware is atleast 13 Yr old at this point, and it runs the latest Linux kernel and the Gnome DE just fine, Video playback and the general Internet is just ‘fine’; you can equate it to providing a mobility scooter to an old grandma who is mentally fit
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Going on the web is equivalent to waltzing into big port city’s cheapest and biggest brothel.
OK, so it’s 13 years, I was imagining c2d.