The best one I’ve ever heard is they like the Microsoft wallpapers. Yes i told them you can use them on linux too. But they argued with me that they wouldn’t be compatible.
A guy kept arguing Linux sucked because no games work on it and especially not Black Desert Online. Here’s the kicker: this argument took place in the BDO chat, while I and another poor soul were playing (and chatting) from Linux. I even made a tutorial on YouTube on how to play the game on Linux, he still didn’t believe I was playing on Linux because “it’s simply impossible”.
“I like Windows”
Lol, no you don’t.
You just don’t like Mac, and don’t know what an alternative would look like.
“I’m too stupid.”
People want to be ignorant about computers, they try really hard.
Lack of new viruses, malware, ransomware. /s
I have a lot of geek/nerd friends who know their way around it, but the one excuse I’ve seen, for anyone who has heard of it, is the stigma that you have to use the terminal and need to be a “programmer”. Which is why, for those people, I just call it Mint Operating System.
I have a friend in IT who spent a couple hours researching Windows 10 LTSC and then installing it, running the masgrave script, then running all the debloat scripts… instead of just installing Bazzite or CachyOS because “I don’t want to have to use the command line for everything”.
And then we (Linux users in general) get called elitists for trying to educate them 😂.
Last week I was told that someone I know was going to install windows 11 instead of Linux because they worry about privacy…
I’d like to legitimately know the possible rationalization that came to that conclusion
My thought is that they must be doing this just to get under people’s skin, it is so aggressively stupid it has to be some sort of contrarian shit.
This is the BS I came to this thread for!
They also went and bought a TPM module… You know for privacy…
I can not fathom it, they are going from windows 7 to 11… same hardware.
😓
This post is fairly problematic. Do not push people into Linux. You don’t need to go around promoting it like a Linux evangelical. People can use whatever they want.
They’re just having fun
Id like to know why CRD hates linux so much since he seems to be a really smart dude.
I don’t have a computer to try it on and I can’t be without a computer.
Oh here, take a Linux laptop from my giant box of Linux laptops!
Old laptop? Linux! I do the same thing on laptops people give me when they are done with them
People are … done with laptops? And they just… give them to you?
They think its better than throwing them in the trash and they have a misguided notion that I will actually use the computer when they give it to me
there was this person who was not using Linux because of the CAD software he wanted to use and when I asked what exactly it was, he said, “KiCad”
One guy told me he plays Mario Kart. As a reason to not install Linux.
Snerk, show him TuxKart. I haven’t played it myself yet, been meaning to.
Oh yeah, gotta love that. Some people have “Minecraft phases”, I have “STK/hedgewars/teeworlds” phases. Proud owner of an AUR package for a QoL client for Teeworlds, was dead simple to make that. Unless you mean the original TuxKart (not super), in which case that’s dead. And WarMux is dead (albeit still mostly playable), same with that one game that is also like a Worms clone but real time. I wish those were brought back…
Oh, and I forgot the name but there was this one tron clone that still mentions modem preferences and has some really really really low default graphics options but still has quite a few online players, I wish I didn’t suck at the game…
“Too many choices”…
“It doesn’t have the Microsoft store” he said; after which my friend and I facepalmed so hard that it might have caused us a concussion.
One of my favourite things about Mint is that it has a Software Center with ratings and reviews. It’s what tipped me over from installing Zorin OS.
“I deal with enough tinkering on computers at work, when I get home I just want it to work” Proceeds to spend hours getting mod packs installed on games they play for a week, month tops
That’s actually not as crazy though. Linus himself said people don’t install operating systems, it’s not what most people want to do in their free time.
We have our own version in linux too. Arch/Gentoo/NixOS, neovim/hyprland/kitty unixporn evangelists who clearly have a very different idea of what’s worth spending time on, compared to the average user. Like gosh, ubuntu, konsole and vscode work perfectly fine too!
I use Arch. I’m a beginner. It has been super easy.
You just need the right distro. Arch can be easy too.
I installed arch myself too. But i still don’t see what benefits it brings over the simple GUI installers from Debian or Fedora. Just click a few buttons and I’m done. What was the point of all the complexity of arch installer anyway? I develop open source linux programs too, the arch installer stuff has very little relation to the actual development of linux projects. I don’t see much reason for it, it’s just something unnecessary. Just use a GUI installer and be done with it.
Regarding Ubuntu, its cousin Mint is even more regular user friendly, as is ZorinOS.
Doesn’t seem ridiculous enough.
They probably expect the OS to “just work”, so that they can work on other things that don’t just work.
A little BS though, but understandable.
I recently bought a new computer and decided to go Linux only. And because it was a new computer, it’s bleeding edge. I got the 9950X3D, I got 64 gigs of DDR5, I got the 5090. And by all measures, it is a fantastic machine.
That being said, getting Linux working on it flawlessly was a several day long adventure.
The motherboard has a driver for its 5 gigabit ethernet connection and I have 10 gig in the house so I assumed that it would work flawlessly out of the box, and instead it was only working at like 100 megabits.
The actual fix involved learning a new set of commands to modprobe in the correct driver after downloading it from the site, which was much more difficult than I feel like it needed to be.
That being said, I’m not a Linux noob. I have used Linux in servers for a decade now, easily, and I’ve never run into quite this level of difficulty getting hardware to work correctly.
And ultimately what I ended up doing was installing LM Studio and an obliterated AI so that I could throw all of the errors that konsole was spitting at me into the AI and let it work it out, which worked a treat once I realized I had the ability to do that.
I have the same layout except an older 3090 instead of a 5090. I had compatibility issues until I switched to Bazzite. Seems Fedora based distros work better with new hardware compared to Ubuntu based ones. It’s worked so well I finally straight up deleted windows entirely.
If my long-shot bid on kubuntu had failed to then bazzite was going to be my next distro.
If I may ask, which distro did/do you have on it?
I can’t think of a good story from personal experience, so I’ll share a wild objection from some guy on the internet from, I think 2007. The story pops into my head from time to time. This guy insisted that it would be impossible to create an entire OS that can run from start to finish without the resources of a major software company. He argued that therefore Linux must actually be a pirated, reskinned version of Windows. https://danielandrade.net/posts/linux-windows-misconceptions-tech-story/
I checked the Wayback machine to try to find more messages from that thread because I think he kept posting and doubling down. But pulling up ancient ZDNet forum posts is slow enough that I gave up.
He’s not entirely wrong:
BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. It is based on a program called " xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. These programs are used by hackers to break into other people’s computer systems to steal credit card numbers. They may also be used to break into people’s stereos to steal their music, using the “mp3” program. Torovoltos is a notorious hacker, responsible for writing many hacker programs, such as “telnet”, which is used by hackers to connect to machines on the internet without using a telephone.
To be fair, nowadays the Linux kernel does rely quite a bit on resources from major software (and hardware) companies.
No biggie here. Just one of the pawns in MS’s FUD tactics.
If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without Windows.
The naivety.
Apple tried to create their own system for years but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.
That person can’t be real…
It was a quote from the story. 😑
I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.
Omg please kill me 😭
