I wish the Linux community would get their thumbs out their arses and make some kind of easy to use normie distro.
You and me both. I use linux all the time for work and it is always a pulling teeth experience to get things working the first time. Microsoft gets a lot of shit for Windows, but they have always hit the sweet spot between configurability and usability. Linux is always to the far end of configurability and OSX is idiot-proofed waaaay too far toward the usability side.
Like the saying goes: linux is only free if you don't value your time.
I'm not going to hold my breath that this will ever change though. Linux die-hards are too proud to cater to normies, so it will always be relatively niche. And with the way normies have ruined everything else they have invaded, I can't say I really blame them.
Like the saying goes: linux is only free if you don't value your time.
I'm sorry but this is bullshit. I haven't done a Linux install in 15 years that wasn't just "boot from live USB/CD, click install, answer 5 questions, wait for installer + reboot, now everything just werks."
Quit trying to install Gentoo and Arch for memes and just slap Ubuntu / Mint in your shit.
And if you like Arch for the rolling-release basis on which it gets software updates, there's Manjaro which is basically Arch for people without the time to fuck around.
I don't know anything about Gentoo. I have used Ubuntu a bit, but mostly RHEL. If you think either of them are easier to install and setup than Windows, then you are the one talking bullshit here.
Linux has its place but that place is in an enterprise environment as a server running some shit that end users never know about or interact with. Anyone who thinks Linux is a remotely viable desktop environment is out of their fucking mind.
You and me both. I use linux all the time for work and it is always a pulling teeth experience to get things working the first time. Microsoft gets a lot of shit for Windows, but they have always hit the sweet spot between configurability and usability. Linux is always to the far end of configurability and OSX is idiot-proofed waaaay too far toward the usability side.
Like the saying goes: linux is only free if you don't value your time.
I'm not going to hold my breath that this will ever change though. Linux die-hards are too proud to cater to normies, so it will always be relatively niche. And with the way normies have ruined everything else they have invaded, I can't say I really blame them.
I'm sorry but this is bullshit. I haven't done a Linux install in 15 years that wasn't just "boot from live USB/CD, click install, answer 5 questions, wait for installer + reboot, now everything just werks."
Quit trying to install Gentoo and Arch for memes and just slap Ubuntu / Mint in your shit.
And if you like Arch for the rolling-release basis on which it gets software updates, there's Manjaro which is basically Arch for people without the time to fuck around.
Manjaro:Arch::Ubuntu:Debian
I don't know anything about Gentoo. I have used Ubuntu a bit, but mostly RHEL. If you think either of them are easier to install and setup than Windows, then you are the one talking bullshit here.
Linux fanboys gonna Linux fanboy.
Linux has its place but that place is in an enterprise environment as a server running some shit that end users never know about or interact with. Anyone who thinks Linux is a remotely viable desktop environment is out of their fucking mind.