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"Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?" (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 67 points 2 months ago (7 children)

The average Linux evangelist on Lemmy vastly overestimates the tech-saviness of the average person.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    I know, the average person probably only knows 2, maybe 3 distros Max

    And Mint

    Yes, of course Mint

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I work on the IT side of a non tech company. I don’t think vastly even comes close to covering how un-savvy the average person is

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    It is a miracle if the average users ever learns a new program with a GUI. And will curse the gods when even a single button is moved.

    And if anyone thinks they would be fine running any command on anything ever, they are deluding themselves.

    A black box with a single line of text? = they are being hacked and will pull the plug just to get rid of it.

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  • [+] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    This mirrors my experience as a dumb person desperately trying to seem to cool to nerds. I'd alwys try Linux and something wouldn't work, I'd spend hours trying to fix it, then I'd just stop booting into it.

    Been mono-booting Linux Mint with almost no problems for a year, the same time that Windows is the worst its ever been.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Did your 7 year old setup their own Linux environment?

    Because anyone can run a fully configured computer. Doesn't matter if it is Linux or Windows.

    And the problem with Linux is the setup. Too many incompatible or badly written drivers. The first step is already finding hardware that is supported.

    Also, did you use the out-of-the-box experience for Windows? Or try to put in too many workarounds because you didn't like how Microsoft handles things? I bet your 7 year old would have zero issues with a regular Windows setup.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Oh, absolutely. They've never had to do family tech support, and it shows.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    exactly the reason I swapped my parents pc to linux, its just stable and simple for them to use. they dont do much other than open the browser and go to youtube or just plug their phone in and copy over their photos to the pc

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Shit's better now. That's not to say that your average person could handle everything.

    If I have a normal person linux on a usb on a computer set to boot from usb, they could totally install it.

    If an update fucks over a driver or a package, they're completely fucked.

    If they need to make their own boot usb, they're completely fucked.

    If they need to configure their computer to boot from the usb if it's not setup that way ... completely fucked.

    If they're good with generic drivers, generic browsers and probably steam, they'll be fine.

    Grandma is probably fine with Linux now.

    Of course, a decent number of gen-x grandmas might have actually fucked around with linux years ago :)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Or their ability to recognize shapes

    "Press the sources button, the one with a arrow pointing into a box"

    presses the home button

    (That was after it turned out said person just... didnt plug it the hdmi cable, ofcource its not going to work both devices arent fucking on nor connected to each other)

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