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this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2025
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Could you be more specific about exactly what about Linux makes it so difficult to use that a typical person would not be able to use their computer at all if it were installed on it?
I think one thing that was trickier for me on linux than windows was mounting a network share from my server to my laptop. I had to search online what to do, after I figured out how to edit fstab it was pretty simple but if I didnt already know how to edit a file with something like nano or how to change directories in the terminal it would have seemed way more complicated, then again the fact that Im mounting a nas share is already well beyond most peoples use case and already means I have the knowledge to look up what I want to do. I think in order to jump to linux you have to be wanting to not deal with enshitification so you are willing to put a little effort to get away from bigger annoying problems, or if they are just handed a linux machine and all they really need is the browser and you are there for any questions then it works
I don't think that editing fstab is a necessary step in this process, going by the first set of instructions here.
I'll have to check that out. I remember it was like that on popOS but for whatever reason I ended up doing it the fstab way, I think it wouldn't stay after reboots or something and after I learned about fstab I just copy pasta'd the same thing over instead of looking more into it
I wonder if the GUI steps are Gnome or Ubuntu specific. The same steps in KDE work, except half or more applications won't recognize it.