This popped up on my work laptop yesterday. Very annoying.
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2024
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That is nonsense. I am not an IT professional by any means, but I am savvy enough to make my way through an OS and I still had a hard time getting Mint to work the way I needed it to without looking up a bunch of tutorials and entering in a bunch of terminal commands, something that most people would find a huge challenge.
And that doesn't even go into the problems I had installing it in the first place. And Mint is supposed to be the easiest one.
I like Linux, but suggesting it's so easy anyone can use it is ridiculous. My 82-year-old mother would not be able to figure it out very easily, nor would my 13-year-old daughter. Could they figure it out? Potentially. But easy? Definitely not.
I don't think you realize that the average computer user doesn't know much beyond how to go to their favorite websites, write email, play a few games, etc. An OS with a learning curve is not something they would find easy.
i guess you're right about the "average" user. i forgot the nanny.
integrating every aspect of the customization to os itself is tricky but i think distros in general already have pretty good customization settings natively. you can do themes, icons etc.
you should explain the word "customization" a bit more.
Customization = getting it to do what you want, which can be a pain in the ass even for basic functions. Here's an example I had to deal with: hot corners in both Windows and MacOS let you turn off the display so you can do things like play a YouTube video at night to listen to as you fall asleep, but also not lock the screen or put the machine to sleep entirely. I had to look up how to make it do what is a simple thing to achieve in the other two big OSes.
There really should not be a learning curve for "if you put your cursor here, the display turns off."
yeah, i get it, but it´s the same thing if you´re switching from windows to macos or the other way around. you loose searching capability [which is cmd + space] if you switch to windows, and you need a seperate app for window tiling in macos. lots of people agree that linux is the most customizable os in the market compared to macos and windows, they even have a seperate subreddit in reddit just for "ricing" which means customizing linux, you can look them in r/unixporn. btw, you have the option to run a command while using hot corners, it´s directly in the system settings. here´s a screenshot that i took just now.
I know you can run a command in hot corners. That was the problem. I had to look up the command I needed. That's the sort of learning curve that is a barrier to many people.