The indoctrination of windows is extreme. Windows is just as hard as linux, harder even with all the layers of obscurity.
And yet... linux is hard, and users decry RTFM as "not growing the userbase"
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Windows is not as hard as Linux. You're just being silly at this point. I'm not saying Windows is better, but it is engineered from the ground up to accommodate the lowest common denominator.
Case in point, installing a program on Windows? Double click the exe and you're done. On Linux? It can be that simple but usually is much more involved.
Yes. After using Linux for servers and lower end machines I switched to mint on my main desktop a week ago. And while I'm quite pleased, it was not a seamless experience. I had to use a script that fixes my Bluetooth headset that connected but wasn't showing up as an audio device when reconnecting, and apt sometimes having very out of date packages that just don't work anymore. I love Linux but i really find it frustrating that many Linux users just seem a bit out of touch, don't see that even some basics sometimes need weird fixes and that windows is just better at working out of the box. I really want Linux to get there but tbh i don't see that happening in the near future.
Honestly after using Linux for a while I greatly prefer to just enter one command in my terminal to install something like a CPU monitoring tool or a disk space analyzer. All in all I don't think Linux is any harder vs windows, it's just different and most people are used to working with Windows so Linux is "hard". Like if there's an issue with a program you just run it from terminal and it'll tell you exactly what's wrong usually, whereas on Windows I have to google these obscure error logs from eventvwr.
The fact that you're capable of using a terminal or Googling error logs puts you in the top 10% of computer users. You do not understand just how dumb the average person is.
Yes you're right, I realize all too well as I work in tech support, I just find that on a technical level that both are just as "hard" each with their own peculiarities.
If you allow me a random question; I'm new to Lemmy and made my account in lemmy.world but I can only see the context of our discussion in lemm.ee, is this expected? What I mean is the "show context" button isn't working for me except when I go to the source of your comment here : https://lemm.ee/comment/19375854
EDIT : I think it was a language setting thing which I've reverted back to "undetermined" after making that first comment. Like I can't even find that comment back on my own profile but I can find this one perfectly fine. Sorry I'm new to this lol.
Lemmy.world has a lot of censorship from what I understand. Maybe it's related to that?
On the other hand half the users I interact with on EE are Chinese propaganda promoters so it's a trade off.
I've managed to fix it. I had to set my language to the same as when I made my initial comment to you, then I could actually find it and edited that one as language "undertermined". Then changed my profile language back to "undetermined" and everything looks ok now. It's now all showing up in lemmy.world for me with full context. I guess lemmy.world is more strict about this type of stuff vs lemm.ee
Double click the exe, pending update blocks the installer, reboot, click the exe, go through a wizard that ask questions you don't know the answer to (usually defaults are ok though), be prompted for admin password, get blocked by corporate policies, fill out the IT ticket, have them remote to your box and install, reboot, find the program in the menu, run it, have it blocked by HBSS, put in ticket for that, update antivirus, reboot, manually pull group policy updates, reboot, more updates install, reboot, run the program.
Obviously silly, but also real.
Also, in Windows when you finally do run the program it just hangs with "Not responding".
It took me more time to read your post than to install a program.
Not relevant when you own the machine.
That's true! I just remember helping my troubleshoot his issues recently and it was a nightmare going into the registry and editing stuff, the UX is so bad!
I love when Linux gets complex because it makes sense. When Windows gets complex with Powershell, or any other horrible stuff in this OS, I just wish it wouldn't lol.
Again, still not the norm. But I pray for all the nontechnical gen-z players of Valorant when something bad happens on their PC lol
It depends on what you are doing
As it turns out, there are a lot of tools that work best on Linux because they were intended to be used on a Linux system. Same goes for Windows stuff that is meant to be run on Windows. You can make it work but for the most polished experience it is best to stick with something well supported.