"guys installing apps on linux is way easier all you do is <insert 3 or 4 worded command here>"

we literally have a ton of really polished gui app store apps that act as a frontend for flatpak and binary package managers, did we just forget those existed?

kde discover? mint software manager? gnome software? pop shop? appcenter? thats what you SHOULD be talking about, not this unintuitive command line shit -.-

do you really expect a windows user to install linux for the first time and think "ah yes time to open a terminal" so they can install their favourite web browser? get real. theyre gonna click on the shopping bag

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if you sit 2 people in front of a linux computer, one of them having the perception that linux is hard and windows is easy, and one of them having never really heard about it before, they will go about using the desktop *completely* differently. the one that thinks linux is hard will feign difficulty and do things incorrectly on purpose, and the one that has never heard anything about it before will use their actual intuition to figure out how to do things on their own

"WHERE ARE MY FILES. WHERE IS FILE EXPLORER. THIS IS SO DIFFICULT"
vs
"oh i guess i can browse files with this folder icon!"

"HOW DO I GET APPS. THIS IS SO COMPLICATED"
vs
"oh theres this shopping bag icon, maybe thats where i get apps from?"

"HOW DO I CHANGE THE VOLUME. ITS SO FUCKING LOUD. HOW DO I MAKE IT QUIETER"
vs
"oh theres a speaker looking icon down there, thats probably my sound controls"

this is 100% a psychological thing

windows users plug their samsung phone into a monitor and instantly figure out how to use samsung dex because its exciting and they actually care

but when presented with a linux desktop theyre somehow totally lost and immediately give up, or they try their best and act like its the most complicated task theyve ever done

i feel like "linux is hard" is a psychological thing and not actually real

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