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Do people really try Linux after you suggest it?

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Feb 26, 2025 at 12:21pmBuffer
Show threadMartinFeb 26, 2025
@itsfoss
And it's better this way.
Because, if they do, you would be personally responsible for every real or perceived flaw in any software.
I had friendships nearly broken because of that.
I don't suggest anything, it's "use your brain or pay in money, data, dependency".
And there is no support to be had from me.
Show threadMek75Feb 26, 2025
@itsfoss tried getting a friend to use Linux, they said they couldn't handle it and windows was better, any windows issues they had I no refused to try solve.
Show threadElisa3Feb 27, 2025
@Mek75 It is weird, but nowadays I feel like Windows is harder to use for beginners than Linux... I would advice Linux Mint more than windows to them... But issue is that everyone uses windows, works ask for windows, software are on windows, and knowing nothing they believe it is simpler.
Show threadElisa3Feb 27, 2025
@Mek75 Also, they are not conscious about the spyware things and don't want to have control, avoid online account, etc... like we do...
They are told if their computer doesn't work anymore with win11, it is because their computer is too old, like "you can't do anything" and believe it... I am speaking to people who don't even know that onedrive is online, so....
Show threadElisa3Feb 27, 2025
@Mek75 and Microsoft seems to use that ! I asked win10 to not connect to my online account (I already used the trick to get a local account, and was mad it was so hard). According to parameters, it should have been fully offline. and yet, when I changed my online account password, I got a "critical security error" in windows that it couldn't connect anymore !
Show threadElisa3Feb 27, 2025
@Mek75 I was like "how is that a critical security error ?" but the beginner will believe that, panic, reconnect... And when I migrated to win10, microsoft support told my my screen was too old, my graphic card too and I had no solution but change hardware (false, you can use generic driver, I made it work in win10) +
Show threadElisa3Feb 27, 2025
@Mek75 they even told be that AZERTY was not supported at all anymore in Chinese IME (false again, but you need to go in register... it is supported in the same way it was on wn7). But all of my friends, not knowing that, where typing Chinese in Qwerty (on AZERTY keyboard) on purpose... (also I was chocked to hear "oh we decided to not support Azerty anymore" :o )
Show threadElisa3Feb 27, 2025
@Mek75 However this makes me think that that part was harder to set on linux (needed documentation and harder install/setting than on linux, also the microsoft IME is quite good)
Show threadBack To AnalogFeb 26, 2025

@itsfoss

I got my elderly mother to use linux. I do help out sometimes.

Show threadMarioFeb 26, 2025
@itsfoss no they don't. They think is a "conspiracy". But after they see themselves with it on their computer, they wake up.
Show threadDrinkerFeb 26, 2025
@itsfoss Honestly i don't think so XD
Show threadelgregorFeb 27, 2025
@itsfoss They can't install it. But when I gave people devices with Linux on it, they were perfectly happy. They only use Firefox and LibreOffice anyway.
Show threadElisa3Feb 27, 2025

@itsfoss Sadly, no. I had a lot of "I already tested it (like 15 years ago) and I don't like terminal/I didn't like that distro/I had one bug with Ubuntu and gave up".

I really get that "I already tested it" a lot, like it wasn't changing over the years....