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    Linux is too hard (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
    submitted 5 days ago by Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    The indoctrination of windows is extreme. Windows is just as hard as linux, harder even with all the layers of obscurity.

    And yet... linux is hard, and users decry RTFM as "not growing the userbase"

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    [–] twinnie@feddit.uk 20 points 5 days ago (13 children)

    Sorry, I love Linux and wish everybody was on it but no way is Windows “just as hard”. Maybe if you want to look behind the curtain and start tinkering Linux is easier but on the face of it I’d say Linux is somewhere around early Windows XP when it comes to usability for a normal person.

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    [–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    I know some of the issue is the manuals themselves are out of date. Ive literally had to have something explained to me via the developers Discord. I hate going to a projects Discord in order to find out crucial info.

    Sometimes manuals are in 5 different places so you don't know what applies to your specific system.

    I usually try and improve the manuals when I do come across this with a quick PR, when I have time.

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    [–] crozilla@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    I’ve used a Mac since forever. But I started using FOSS apps. Then I created a Hackintosh, until it borked. Then I installed ZorinOS and almost didn’t need to fix the Hackintosh. I did fix it, but Zorin convinced me that Linux is legit and I’m going all in on it.

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    [–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago

    As some who first tried Linux in the '90s, uses it at work, and has it on at least one device at home, I disagree. Linux got easier, but so did windows. I do t daily drive Linux because software I need just will not run on my current distro as-is and would take hours of my time to troubleshoot and maybe get working.

    When I went to upgrade that distro (Mint) it also had all kinds of stuff that required manual intervention that someone without Linux knowledge would have had a much harder time with

    [–] yucandu@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

    Linux isn't hard anymore because I have ChatGPT to come up with all the command lines for me. And they work 60% of the time!

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