Linux in a Bit

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👋 Hi, I'm Aaron, nice to meet you!
🍿 Most of the time I just post about whatever I find interesting.
📸 I do various higher quality projects every once in a while.
🦣 I’ve been somewhere on Mastodon since April 8th, 2021 :)

⛵️ Alt: @Linus_in_a_Bit
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No matter how much you try to convince them otherwise, people generally can't care about very many things. 
Rolling release  
Fully independent  
Actually usable  
Doesn't fall apart when you update  
https://getsol.us
Solus

 What's the most common complaint I've heard about Linux?

Not the installation process.
Not finding a distro.
Not getting programs to work.
Not troubleshooting.
Not hardware compatibility.

The most common complaint about Linux I've seen is this:
For a normal computer user, asking for help is just about impossible.

They ask a simple question and:
People respond "Did you Google it?"
People complain that the question wasn't asked "correctly".
People respond "RTFM"
People get mad??? at them for making an easy mistake.

We can't expect normal people to know to, or even know how to deal with any of that stuff.

Search engines these days are awful, manuals are hard to read for most people (especially stuff like ArchWiki), and normal people make mistakes we think are easily avoidable.

The solution to making Linux more popular is not ruthless promotion. The solution is to actually help the people who are trying to use it.  

#Linux

It will only be "the year of the Linux desktop" when people can use it without knowing what Linux is. 

I've been using my phone with animations disabled in the accessibility settings and everything is just so fast and snappy.

I love it!  

Note: This is on Android; iOS's "Reduce Motion" setting doesn't disable most animations, it just replaces them with crossfades.

 Just realized how good it would be to have an Android-like 'Bedtime Mode" on my desktop to tell me to "Go to bed!" by making my computer go completely grayscale.

Sad to see that KDE doesn't have the option, and Gnome requires an extension for the functionality.  

KDE Feature Request: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474826
Gnome Extension: https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-bedtime-extension-greyscale-mode/

FOSS developers, hard at work saying "no excuses."
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/adobe-creative-cloud-linux-wine-patches

If it's a bubble, why is it still growing?

- Some investor; during a bubble