I had nothing but problems with Manjaro, but I’m having a better experience on Kubuntu LTS.
Well there’s your issue. You work in IT and picked a distro for someone with your knowledge. Car guys cause themselves hours of work all the time. Someone who just wants a computer to work can generally pick something like Linux mint and be good to go, with pre-installed applications that cover the major uses. You’ll have to learn where things are, but it’s relatively similar to windows. The issue would be if they happen to search online for how to do something that they haven’t found in the UI yet, often they’ll find terminal commands instead.
I’m not one saying that EVERYONE needs to use Linux, I just got a new pc, and I’m giving my old one to someone, and i ran the windows 11 iso through microwin and installed that for them. But when someone hits an issue and starts considering other options, there are simpler ones out there. Like when BMW tried to charge a subscription for heated seats. We don’t need to learn to put together the whole car (arch), we can just get a Honda.
You might not be saying that but I’ll quote the smug OP who said:
But… but… then you’d have to think about what you’re doing and gasp develop a basic understanding of the technology that runs your life! Who has time for that nerd shit?
This attitude will keep people away from Linux way longer than will make sense as it grows.
That’s fair and there’s a huge range of opinions from people who currently use Linux regarding moving people to Linux. I see comments when I watch YouTube videos around Linux from people who literally don’t want people to come to Linux unless you’re full in to the open source belief, fully in to learning the terminal and os, and all those -insult- people who just want it to work can stay in windows and Mac.
There are absolutely others who considered Linux, see a comment like that, and abandon the idea because “fuck those guys”.
Well there’s your issue. You work in IT and picked a distro for someone with your knowledge. Car guys cause themselves hours of work all the time. Someone who just wants a computer to work can generally pick something like Linux mint and be good to go, with pre-installed applications that cover the major uses. You’ll have to learn where things are, but it’s relatively similar to windows. The issue would be if they happen to search online for how to do something that they haven’t found in the UI yet, often they’ll find terminal commands instead.
I’m not one saying that EVERYONE needs to use Linux, I just got a new pc, and I’m giving my old one to someone, and i ran the windows 11 iso through microwin and installed that for them. But when someone hits an issue and starts considering other options, there are simpler ones out there. Like when BMW tried to charge a subscription for heated seats. We don’t need to learn to put together the whole car (arch), we can just get a Honda.
You might not be saying that but I’ll quote the smug OP who said:
This attitude will keep people away from Linux way longer than will make sense as it grows.
That’s fair and there’s a huge range of opinions from people who currently use Linux regarding moving people to Linux. I see comments when I watch YouTube videos around Linux from people who literally don’t want people to come to Linux unless you’re full in to the open source belief, fully in to learning the terminal and os, and all those -insult- people who just want it to work can stay in windows and Mac.
There are absolutely others who considered Linux, see a comment like that, and abandon the idea because “fuck those guys”.