• helenslunch@feddit.nl
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    4 months ago

    It’s really a matter of would you rather:

    1. Deal with MS relentlessly jamming their garbage down your throat

    2. Become a sysadmin

    • Log5J@infosec.pub
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      4 months ago

      I became a sysadmin, I like being able to learn to get around problems. But an outsider just sees someone spending all morning fiddling with winetricks when it ‘just works’ on windows.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      4 months ago

      The thing is it’s the same base linux as decade(s?) ago, windows is changing how stuff is done all the time.

      So a one time effort or a marathon IMO.

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      4 months ago

      not that big of a deal if you choose a distro with good defaults ootb. choosing the right distro is the biggest step imo if you don’t want to debug your computer.

    • wanderingmagus@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      4 months ago

      Really depends on your use case. Like @[email protected] said, casual users that use the OS as a browser and email client can use practically any distro. Users that do a bit more, like casual gaming on gold-rated Steam games, generally do fine with something like Pop!_OS or Linux Mint.

      It’s when you start going towards the more hardcore users, like really hardcore gamers that play obscure titles or have unsupported Windows-specific hardware, artists that need very specific unsupported programs for editing or recording, engineers who need to do CAD specifically in a Windows-specific proprietary software, or a tinkerer that’s used to the Windows environment, that “become a sysadmin” starts being a reasonable complaint.