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diffcalculus Nov 27, 2023

Some of you sound like the annoying stereotype of vegans pushing their diet lifestyle.

Communist Nov 27, 2023

That’s because like vegans, there is a moral imperative that most ignore or don’t care about, we have a genuine emotional attachment to foss, and because you are ignorant of the topic, you don’t care to listen.

What he said is harmless, true, and there is a moral imperative to say it, and ontop of that it isn’t like a diet, it’s better software that respects you for free and the only downside is a 15 minute install process (and the use of a flash drive). Why do you care enough to fight that?

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shrugal Nov 27, 2023

I’m all for Linux and have been using it for years, but saying a 15min install is the only downside is disingenuous. For most people there are a few programs they rely on that won’t work on Linux, and the hardware support is still not quite where it should be.

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Communist Nov 27, 2023

the vast majority of hardware is supported, and as someone who works IT and gives linux to the elderly, I don’t agree at all with the user unfriendliness, provided you use mint and kde.

If your software doesn’t run that does suck, but the vast majority of usecases work perfectly with the breif explanation of "use the app store for any software you need to install. Do you have any examples of user friendliness issues, or is it just that there are choices to make at all?

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ZenbyBosatsu

Honestly true. At the very most you have to make certain switches to some software. For elderly people these switches are pretty minor since often they aren’t needing something like industry software for their work and at most will need to switch to like… LibreOffice, OnlyOffice or something of the sort. Not hard. For people in a job that may need design software like any Adobe product, there are Plenty of alternatives that work pretty well. Main thing is just spending a few days to get used to it and learning the differences. Only big thing I’d say that would be very hard to switch to Linux is if you make Music. Because if you use FL Studio, the closest alternative is LMMS… and it sorta sucks and at times is very uncomfortable to work with. You’d probably have to switch to Ardour or Reaper which would be a pretty massive change… Overall though, those account for a small number of people.