You can’t do as much damage with a GUI that tells you what you’re doing in regular language vs commands.

sudo rm -rf /* means nothing to a newbie

“Reset to factory settings” is pretty freaking clear

The difference is that the touch screen stuff was a more dumbed down experience, not an increase in difficulty and options.

Then you have the security issue that comes from teaching users they should just trust whatever random people tell them to do when facing an issue with their computer.

I wonder how many will realize it’s not just a cassette tape to listen to music…

I’ll never excuse Tesla of being managed by competent people 🤷

That’s the number they sent, we don’t know the sales dates on those so maybe they were just super bad at submitting the paperwork…

In Canada the federal government ends up having to hire contractors for anything IT related because the pay is crap when on the inside, in the end it costs more than just increasing IT’s pay to be somewhat competitive

People elected on a “the government is lying to you” platform are saying that their electors trust the government…

Wasn’t social media necessary because the government blocked SMS? We now have plenty of alternative solutions that aren’t under the control of billionaires…

I’m just saying that struggling isn’t much of an excuse. You think Egyptians weren’t struggling before the Arab Spring?

French Revolution happened while people were starving…

Funny how it’s never been an issue on all my AMD setups even the ones where I fucked around with the Windows install to make it lighter.

I’ve been using Windows since 3.0, so you’re the one who can fuck off calling me a kiddo.

Sounds like the problem is between the keyboard and the chair because I’ve never had issues installing AMD drivers on Windows 10, never had Windows update issues and so on.

Maybe you would be better off getting a iPad.

The difference is that the average user won’t face those problems in the first place on Windows while they’ll have them from the first boot on Linux because driver development for Linux isn’t a priority for manufacturers.

Then the user has to figure out the solution that applies to their version of Linux (when the average person can’t tell what OS they’re using in the first place) and the solution doesn’t come from the manufacturer but from a random GitHub project or people on a Linux forum that they just need to trust even though basic computer security starts with “don’t just trust random people”.

The “What about the registry? And people have to use the terminal on Windows as well!” argument falls apart when you realize that it’s not something that will be required for the average user while it is for the average user if they use Linux. Unless you’re trying to make Windows do power user stuff you don’t even need to know that it has a terminal.

There, happy?

Yeah, I run Linux as my main OS and am able to say that it’s not ready to go mainstream, biased as fuck

All AMD hardware, Bazzite was killing my GPU as soon as there was load on it and WiFi that worked intermittently, Mint had non working WiFi on a USB antenna that is supposed to be 100% Linux compatible.

So yeah, I would love it if Linux fanatics stopped pretending that Linux is just as plug n play as Windows, it isn’t and solutions rely on trusting random people on the Internet.

The difference is that if you’re using hardware that’s compatible it just works. My current experience on Linux is that you have 100% hardware that’s supported based on what people are saying, you install one distro and your GPU shits the bed the second there’s load on it and WiFi works when it feels like it. Install another distro and the GPU works but WiFi doesn’t. In the end you spend hours troubleshooting and you’re applying solutions by trusting that people aren’t doing anything malicious when they tell you to input such and such in terminal.

On Windows? Install the OS, everything works, so no, there’s no issues with the hardware itself.

And the “small subset” of hardware it supports is anything made after 2017 and it’s only Windows 11 that doesn’t support hardware made before that.

Try to make Linux work without any outside intervention with all the hardware that Windows 11 is just compatible with out of the box, I dare you.

More user friendly doesn’t mean you won’t have to spend hours troubleshooting driver issues that you will never have on Windows, that’s a real problem…

(and when you find the solution you need to input commands in terminal that you can’t tell what they do, that’s a huge security concern as it teaches users to just trust anyone who tells them to do things they don’t understand)

Different laws, Microsoft is more limited in what they can push to UK users. Works with any European countries really…

That was never mentioned in an official Microsoft communication.