Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community

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Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community - Lemmy

a good product is the best advertising. make linux usable as a daily driver, and people come flowing in from the shithole that is windows.

Linux is a usable daily driver if you’re tech savvy enough. Some distros are even kind enough to be daily driveable by non tech savvy, at least for the normal stuff.

At this point, it’s possible, but no normie is ever going to know what distros are easy and won’t be getting through an OS installation anyways.

Linux is a usable daily driver if you’re tech savvy enough.

A daily driver shouldn't need you to be tech savy. There should just be an added benefit for being tech savy.

Windows is not usable if you aren’t tech savvy. See young people who grew up on iOS/Android.

I think Linux is very good already and only improving.

Pretty sure those users you're talking about don't understand desktop controls in general, and would be even worse on Linux. Because when we talk about tech savy we're not talking about basic controls.

I don’t agree in a broad sense. Windows is much harder to use in some ways, like drivers are a mess compared to Linux (sans Nvidia). It’s harder to maintain over time, less robust, like immutable OSes are much more simple.

There are very few days I use windows and think “wow that was straightforward”. Maybe that’s just me though.

Nah, it’s not you. In their efforts to make Windows more dummy friendly, they’ve SOMEHOW managed to make it worse and keep it that way over several major versions.

We STILL have two different settings schemes in Windows, but don’t worry, they’re still ‘innovating’ with ads in to the start menu!