Paywall

Thank you! I’m a staunch believer that most of you don’t think about how much prior knowledge you need just to be able to use Linux, let alone not break things.

Of course, none of us would actually do that, but what I’m trying to say is that’s the threshold. For linux to become mainstream like plenty of users on here seem to vehemently believe, it HAS to start taking cues from windows, that means easier install methods, dumbed down and less terminal based procedures, and more support from mainstream and less open source software manufacturers. Otherwise the average person is going to look at linux and say “that looks hard.” full stop.

And I would reckon a lot of those changes would not go over well with current Linux userbase

Bet, go ahead and grab your parents or the nearest old fart you know who isn’t tech savvy and try to get them to install linux, libre Office, and thunderbird and attempt to use it.

$100 says they won’t make it through using rufus without help

This is absolutely the attitude he was just talking about, you can’t agree, then add a “but”

Linux is not the fix for all that ails you, and it’s especially not the fix for non tech-savvy people, which as a reminder, is most people. Lemmy is not a good baseline for this because we’re all savvy enough to get onto the fediverse in the first place, which in itself is very confusing if you’re non tech savvy or coming from a place like reddit, where things are so fundamentally different.( Which i know for a fact most of you have experienced at some point)

I mean does it matter if you’re frank and say "its happening because you didn’t pay? Its not like they can go to the cops or something

Can confirm, the support forum crowd are dicks

I would like lemmy as a whole to know more of this comic. Hell, the entire tech and coding space. Look, i love tech but some of you guys can be absolute bellends to people not knowing something and it turns plenty of people off from even learning.

“WhAt YoU dOn’T kNoW hOw To MaKe A fIlE? It’S eAsY, iF yOu DoN’t KnOw ThEn YoU sHoUlDn’T bE uSiNg ThIs PrOgRaM!!!”

My brother in Christ maybe they want to learn, some people are neurodivergent and they don’t pick up new information as easily the first go around

Sorry rant over

Did some digging, guess who runs bestreamwise.com? Give you a hint, it starts with C and rhymes with omcast