• Asetru@feddit.org
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    18 hours ago

    So “the year of the Linux desktop” is just around the corner? Again?

    … and all it took was to wait for windows to become unbearably shitty?

    • lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Linux will never become popular till it’s as easy to use as something like VLC. Download, install, and it runs everything. Until this happens, Linux will never take over no matter how unbearably shitty Windows becomes.

    • MotoAsh@piefed.social
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      18 hours ago

      It was always going to. People are fundamentally lazy. Until something becomes a need, far too many are going to sit around and whine instead.

        • Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          7 hours ago

          The primary reason I do not want to move to Linux is because I do not want my home PC to contain homework problems for basic usage. People can say it’s gotten better all they want but not by enough. I have to google constant shit to figure out the basics. But the secondary reason is that Linux fanboys are typically unbearable. It’s just hatred and bickering. Either they’re bitching at Windows or they’re bitching about another Distro or bitching about something else. I don’t want to deal with this shit everytime something goes wrong in Linux and I have to go figuring out what happened. If I use Windows the only shit I’ll get are from Linux bros whining. Anyone else using Windows will just shrug. Linux bros feel way too culty for me to ever engage in the operating system.

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          16 hours ago

          I’m not shitting on “people moving to linux”. I’m shitting on people in general, and you know I’m right, so get out of here with this accusatory misreading trash.

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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        14 hours ago

        It is true, and it’s how I got pushed toward Linux after W10 update turned my wife’s laptop into an unusable OS, and my work update made our CAD software noticably slower. Linux on both machines brought life back to them.