I feel like 75% of Mastodon are people talking about Linux. If you don’t care about Linux you feel alienated. I enjoy Mastodon and Lemmy, but the lack of more diverse subjects gets to me if I browse for too long.
Update: I took your advice and purchased a laptop for Linux, and now I care about it! Problem solved.
Linux users brainstorming on why the operative system they jerk off, it’s only used by knowledgeable nerds instead of the general public, because “user experience” it’s not a word that exists in their vocabulary.
Honestly, I think the user experience is better on Linux. Windows is “easy” because people are used to it, not because it’s good. It’s also has the most Google results and is the default results if you don’t add Linux to your search. Other than that, the UX of Linux is better I think.
Updating applications is done in a centralized place, not each application checking for updates when you open it, which is also when you want to use it not wait for an update. You can customize the desktop and window decorations to be more usable for you. Its got all kinds of things that make it easier to deal with after only just a few days of using it than Windows does. Windows just has money for marketing and a captive user base.
Linux users are the vegans of tech.
It’s more like the people that avoid food contaminated with pesticides and questionably safe additives, but a select few like gnome and *buntu users add it all in anyways either by choice or cluelessness.
Consider this stolen!
Steal away, he didn’t come up with it. Linux users stole the joke “how do you know someone is vegan” a long time ago to meme ourselves, we’re self aware.
“It’s easy” actually translates to “I already know this one and have an unwillingness to learn the other,” which you find out when you realize linux is actually pretty easy too, just different. Gentoo or Arch or something like that excluded, but for distros like Mint, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, etc, that actually does ring true. There is a learning curve, yes, but so too is there one when learning spanish as an english speaker, that doesn’t mean spanish is actually necessarily “harder than english” though, it’s just “harder than speaking the language I already know.” Especially when windows comes preinstalled on most PCs due to corporate contracts, and one has to seek out an alternative.
Also “get good scrub.”
I’ve used Macs for work for a good while but Mint feels nice and light.
I give kde to the elderly and have no such issues
IDK, if both my very-much-not-so tech savy siblings, mother, and even an idiot like myself can all pick up and use it with very few, if any, hiccups, then “user expierence” on Linux is…
Not hard. Or, well, in general as well. The more I hear people go “Learning Linux is hard” and hear them out, the more I’ve come to realize they’re actually trying to say “Unlearning Windows is hard”. Which is absolutely true, considering 95% of people use Windows basically out the womb…and then they keep using it/put up with it no matter what unless you’re like one of my old professors who didn’t “need windows” for his work (and used Mac all the way), or like me and several others who got tired of Windows constantly messing up on me–or being invasive of your privacy, bloated, all of the above. Take your pick–enough where I just said “you know what, no. I have options besides basically throwing dice at the wall with this. They can’t be that bad.” (spoiler alert: they weren’t bad at all).
And again, unless you’re throwing yourself off the Linux deep end from second one and trying to build the system from scratch or compile Gentoo by yourself, learning it isn’t this grueling, impossible task. Plus there’s free resourses that can make it even simpler for you if you want to more than learn as you go. There’s growing pains, yeah, but no different than learning anything new in life