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Andre Louis Sep 6, 2025

'Everyone can use Linux. What do you need Windows/MacOS for? Some stupid game you barely play anyway? Stupid MS office apps that your company makes you use?
I even got my granny to use Linux, one day I just swapped out her stupid windows and she never even noticed.'

I see a lot of that around here. It's blatantly not true, and no not *everybody* can just 'up and use linux' so easily.
Screen-reader users for example.

I'm happy some can be so blazé about it, but when a screen-reader is your gateway to the world of computing, jumping on the Linux bandwagon is neither simple nor as easy as pie.

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Hell's Kitchen Bitches! 🦮🔥Sep 6, 2025

@FreakyFwoof OK wanna place a bet on how many reply guy blind techbros are going to hop in here and explain to you in great and exhausting detail how it is actually possible? lol.

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Andre Louis Sep 6, 2025

@Pawpower I'll virtually fuck'em and chuck'em. I have no time for it honestly, and just don't care. I'll piss around with Linux in a VM or whatever, but I'll not be using it as a primary OS any time soon. lol

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Sarah Russell

@FreakyFwoof @Pawpower I will say that yes, it is possible, if you want to spend several man hours figuring it out, using a windows VM for certain stuff if you need to use MS Office specifically or other stuff, but yeah I don't have the patience or the time myself. I know at least one person who uses Linux exclusively, and he is awesome, but when Ido so much on Windows I just don't have the time to fuss on my main machine. Maybe someday. But yeah, nah.