boy was that a mistake. If there's a hobby you like, ,its always best to keep it niche, lest the mainstream completely ruins it and the hobby's communities as well
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I think some kind of extremely user friendly normie distro would be very helpful for the linux community and also help fight teh evil microsoft but I do get people who want normies to stay away lol. I don't want them ruining alt-tech as an example the way big tech has been ruined.
Linux getting big meant professionals at big companies started developing Linux, and with that came HR and PR departments taking an interest in Linux development.
And with that eventually came Codes of Conduct.
I don't think that distro can physically exist, particularly since it's all spawned out of the framework Linus Torvalds created. Dude's just too much of an unlikeable fuck for anything he built to be user friendly.
I tried to get into Ubuntu back in the mid 2000s when it was being pitched as exactly the kind of user friendly distro you want. I had a full blown Linux guru as a roommate and it was a bunch of Computer Science majors in that appartment, but even with all of that going for me I ended up switching back to Windows after a couple semesters. Linux is just unfriendly by nature.
That said, I'm happy to see people driven away from it, so maybe you guys can keep ahold of that one after all.
Fyi I'm not a Linux autist in the slightest it is possibly the most unintuitive and anti-user friendly piece of software I've ever come across. I tried so hard to like Linux but just like you I couldn't do it. I do programming and 3D artwork, when I have my down time I do not want to be fucking around and troubleshooting bullshit constantly just to be able to play a video file nevermind play video games. I also like playing classic video games quite a bit so I hated having to deal with constant compatibility problems.
Modern Ubuntu basically is that distro now and has been for at least a few years. It's not 100% problem-free as Windows but it's like 80-90% of the way there and you can run basically any Windows program or game without too many bugs or hassle trying to find an answer on Stack Exchange now.
The ironic thing about Linus is his disagreeableness used to be something people in his position aspired towards but is no longer "HR approved", and he had to recant a lot of it to stay in the good graces of his tribe.
Imagine being a self-made man in a way most of us can't possibly comprehend (in the sense that he has achieved immortality through his work) but still having to comply with arbitrary HR dictates made and enforced by useless people far beneath him. Well that's Linus.
"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"
His problem is his daughter is full blown woke