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    [–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

    Not knowing how anything works

    I mean, that's how you start learning stuff - not knowing how something works

    Being scared by errors that you don't know how to get around or deal with

    Isn't that the case for every OS in existence? When something breaks, you don't know how to deal with it. Enter google/ddg/whatever

    Not knowing alternatives for your former favourite apps to do things quickly

    See point 1 - and yet there are Linux apps that let you do things quicker than Windows stuff. I can't imagine myself at this point having to use frigging photoshop to crop or add a border to a image when you could do that with a ´magick -crop´

    Wondering if you get the peripherals you currently own to run?

    Wasn't that the whole point of live images? Not that they will charge you for downloading them. And hardware support is infinitely better today than back in the day. Just look at what the folks at asahi did - that's nothing short of incredible

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

    My brother in penguin computers, that wasn't a negative post. I just mentioned all the things to point out that switching OS can be really hard and the first time getting to Linux ain't all sunshine and rainbows. 😉

    Really just needs one problem with some necessity you can't fix to screw up the whole experience. Doesn't even have to be Linux' fault; just thinking about god damn printers…