Jason LefkowitzFeb 23
I occasionally help an elderly neighbor get stuff done with their computer. And every single time, I walk away in incandescent rage at how hard we have made this stuff for people who have not spent their entire waking lives marinating in it
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@jalefkowit I'm at the stage now where I'm starting to think that giving someone a 20 minute primer on Linux then letting them get on eith it has to be easier than constantly fighting with their firewall, antiviral, and shifty OS every week.
Personally, ive found several problems with Win11 recently that require opening Powershell as admin just to do something that used to take a couple of clicks with a mouse - something that the Windows evangelists always said was stopping people moving to Linux.
I'm now seriously considering a 2nd SSD for dual booting into something, possibly Mint.
Feb 23 at 9:18pmWeb
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@mancavgeek @jalefkowit https://aus.social/@stib/116117883536605111 ... Anecdotal data on your assumption being correct
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My son bought a second-hand Windows 11 PC for games, and has been having BSOD issues with the graphics card since he got it. Out of desperation he tried installing Bazzite on it, which I encouraged, but was also trying not to get his hopes up, telling him that the some things might not work. But he reports that "absolutely everything works better than Windows". I suggested he use KDE for the desktop, and he is blown away about how good everything looks, and how easy the user experience is. He has used Linux for a bit probably 7 or 8 years ago when he used a salvaged laptop at uni that had Ubuntu on it, and he remembers that being a bit janky and frustrating, but now he's decided that he'll wipe the Windows partition and stay with Linux. So keep it up, clever people that are making Linux distros and software, you're winning. #Linux #Bazzite #KDE #Steam

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@mainec Crikey!
Show threadJennifer Moore 😷Feb 24

@mancavgeek

Yeah, I've got my laptop running LMDE now (Linux Mint Debian Edition) and it's mostly pretty nice.

I did run into some things while installing that you'd have to be techie to get past. There was a thing with Secure Boot and a thing with a WiFi card, where I had to resort to trawling forums and blogs for other people's solutions.

But since it's actually been up and running, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to an ordinary person for all the normal kind of stuff.

Dragon (speech to text) had been the last thing keeping it on Windows, because these days my fingers get iffy if I type too much. I did think beforehand that I might have to keep that going on top of a virtual machine. However, Talon seemed worth a try, in its dictation mode. And after a couple of months of adding to my corrections file and getting used to its conventions, I reckon I'm just as fast on that as I used to be on Dragon.

Still need Win or Mac if I want to run Dorico (sheet music creation). That's not an everyday task for me, so doesn't have to be on the laptop.

#Linux #LMDE #Dragon #Talon #software