Talked about Linux so much my 14 year old niece installed Fedora by herself on her computer and loves it.

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I tend not to recommended Linux to anyone because I always end up their tech support.

someone recommended to me the other day to try FreeBSD. After spending multiple hours this morning trying to get the Wifi to work I now want to punch them in the throat.

Ethernet/phone tethering works like a charm though.

I only suggest it when someone is complaining about windows.

Have you heard of the gospel of our lord and savior, Linus torvalds? Do you have a minute to discuss salvation from the eternal fires of surveillance capitalism? /j

Maybe it's because the survey respondent hasn't used an OS worth recommending.

Fucking hilarious because just recommended Linux to a customer over the phone. This 100% spot on.

I’m willing to recommend Windows 10 to someone who considers “upgrading” to Windows 11.

I talk about Linux with a lot of people. Anywhere from non-technical users, to technical users.

I have gotten a few people to try it. But ultimately in my real life circle I am the only competent Linux user. And I can't get non tech people to try it.

Since Linux transformed my 8gb Lenovo 11th gen laptop from e-waste to daily use I became like a jw, I need to convert everyone

Somewhat related but does anyone know the backstory on the linuxsucks guy? He's the sole poster in that community and has a massive rage boner for Linux but seems to know way too much about it?

I hate that we can now recommend win10 over win11 because win11 now has AI in your fucking notepad.

ITT:

Win 10 user not realizing they are self-reporting how unenthusiastic / unimpressed they are by their OS, to the extent that they literally cannot even imagine being excited by any OS.

What else would I be talking about to people?

I have been using Linux for 30 years. Never recommend anything to anyone. It's their decision to make. I will answer questions if asked but I try and be conservative. Lots of people don't need computers and would be better off without them or only need something simple to do their jobs or play games. Also my experience doesn't translate to normies. Inlaw was asking around for laptop recommendations and I just shut my trap. They can buy a Mac or a box store Windows laptop and it will do the job and I won't be on the hook for support.

I am not a preacher and Linux is not a religion. It is an effective tool for technically minded people to get shit done. Nothing more. If companies want to turn it into a product and an experience like Valve or Google then it will end up in more or less polished consumer ready products but that is nothing to do with why I use it.

My friends want me to shut the fuck up

No one I know but me even owns a computer to install it on.

Hey, it's this meme again!

This seems as good a place as any to ask. I have a shitty old laptop that ran Arch pretty good, but I'm not good enough at Linux and I managed to fuck it up. Something about the root partition being full, and discussions about the fix went over my head. So I pulled all my stuff off of it and installed Mint like my other computer has, because it's braindead easy to use. But even Mint Xfce runs like doo doo on this machine.

Is there any good middle ground that's more beginner friendly than Arch, and runs on weaker machines than Mint?

Yeah you got me

I used to like treyarch btw