Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Jul 12, 2023

XDA claim they're a "leading tech publication".

They published an article titled: "Why I like Linux on my Steam Deck but not my desktop"

-> Uses tiny and basically unsupported obscure Linux distribution to make a case against it on the desktop.

-> Also thinks somehow Proton is only on Steam Deck?

Please, if you're going to publish a Linux article, get your writers to do more than 1 minute research into it.

Show threadLiam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Jul 12, 2023

There's this weird repeating problem of people expecting to instantly know how something works, despite basically never using it.

I see this everywhere, not just Linux. In this case though, I see articles like it still *all the time* and the big issue is just to get clicks.

Show threadAlan TwigzJul 12, 2023

@gamingonlinux I do think the point of Linux being hampered by its very open, user-focused and custom nature is true, but it's not really well put forward.

Windows is the standard because folks use it at work, and they use it at work because Microsoft has huge enterprise contracts and marketing teams. That will never happen for Linux - even if folks use enterprise Red Hat at work, for example, they're not going to be instantly proficient with Arch at home

Show threadDakki Reads

@Quisley @gamingonlinux As, like, the opposite of a computer guy (in the sense that I just want software to get the hell out of my way and let me do the thing I want to do)

Linux (Ubuntu Studio) has actually been really good at letting me do my thing once I got past a very short initial learning curve, and I feel a lot more confident I can fix things in Linux after a couple years of using it as my daily driver than I ever did after 20+ years on several flavors of Windows.

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Show threadDakki ReadsJul 12, 2023
@Quisley @gamingonlinux I think what I want to get at is that there's a certain sense of "sunk cost" developing expertise as a user in Windows that people just don't want to give up on
Show threadAlan TwigzJul 12, 2023
@DakkiReads @gamingonlinux Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking - folks will spend an hour a day wasting time on a broken system forever rather than a few hours a week learning a new one for a year. The waste is already built into their day, people are busy, and learning things on your own entails feeling stupid a lot. I don't know how it works everywhere but my education gave me a deep aversion to feeling stupid