They ALL come on live bootable distros(useable to test and play with) and install to harddrive partition in under 15 minutes. Fedora KDE, or Mint or similar. There are "app stores" too(flatpaks), the worse thing you need to do is maybe use terminal commands, which honestly you'll mostly google and copy paste.
I could/should probably go with "learn" in this case as I really only need to have it operate at a basic level if I want to play a handful of games that came out well before 2015.
They ALL come on live bootable distros(useable to test and play with) and install to harddrive partition in under 15 minutes.
This was the case twenty years ago.
People need to stop overselling the convenience of Linux. It has improved every year but still isn't ready to be a serviceable desktop operating system. Linux is for servers or autists with lots of free time.
Its a powerful operating system, at the cost of having every option exposed to the user.
To someone with enough knowledge, this is a powerful thing.
To someone who doesnt care, or want to learn, its never going to happen. If all people need to do is launch their web browser, netflix, steam and it just works, thats fine. But the moment something needs to be manually looked at and fixed. Good luck.
Part of the problem with Linux is that it's not normie friendly enough to really challenge Windows as an OS. Until last year when I downgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 11, I never had a reason to even look anywhere other than Windows because it was simple enough to use that I didn't need to watch a youtube tutorial. I learned basically everything about Windows through just clicking through settings, etc. to see what they did. Everything runs on Windows as well, and if you play games you basically don't have a choice.
Linux on the other hand is not normie friendly. It requires effort to understand and keep up with. It can't run a lot of games, especially live service games, and running other programs can require a lot more effort than simply clicking on an icon like Windows.
I pray to god that Steam OS or whatever it is that Gabe Newell is working on can function on a level similar enough to Windows that it can dethrone it as a normie friendly OS so that we aren't reliant on Microslop anymore.
I would love to see Linux get to that level of UX, but it's so goddamn far away. I pivoted to Windows 10 LTSC but that's just me buying myself some time in the hopes that Linux or Microsoft can get their respective shit together in time to not take the whole PC landscape into a new dark age.
You don't need to learn Linux much at this point.
They ALL come on live bootable distros(useable to test and play with) and install to harddrive partition in under 15 minutes. Fedora KDE, or Mint or similar. There are "app stores" too(flatpaks), the worse thing you need to do is maybe use terminal commands, which honestly you'll mostly google and copy paste.
I could/should probably go with "learn" in this case as I really only need to have it operate at a basic level if I want to play a handful of games that came out well before 2015.
This was the case twenty years ago.
People need to stop overselling the convenience of Linux. It has improved every year but still isn't ready to be a serviceable desktop operating system. Linux is for servers or autists with lots of free time.
and a lot of it's being made by the woke.
Its a powerful operating system, at the cost of having every option exposed to the user.
To someone with enough knowledge, this is a powerful thing.
To someone who doesnt care, or want to learn, its never going to happen. If all people need to do is launch their web browser, netflix, steam and it just works, thats fine. But the moment something needs to be manually looked at and fixed. Good luck.
Part of the problem with Linux is that it's not normie friendly enough to really challenge Windows as an OS. Until last year when I downgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 11, I never had a reason to even look anywhere other than Windows because it was simple enough to use that I didn't need to watch a youtube tutorial. I learned basically everything about Windows through just clicking through settings, etc. to see what they did. Everything runs on Windows as well, and if you play games you basically don't have a choice.
Linux on the other hand is not normie friendly. It requires effort to understand and keep up with. It can't run a lot of games, especially live service games, and running other programs can require a lot more effort than simply clicking on an icon like Windows.
I pray to god that Steam OS or whatever it is that Gabe Newell is working on can function on a level similar enough to Windows that it can dethrone it as a normie friendly OS so that we aren't reliant on Microslop anymore.
I would love to see Linux get to that level of UX, but it's so goddamn far away. I pivoted to Windows 10 LTSC but that's just me buying myself some time in the hopes that Linux or Microsoft can get their respective shit together in time to not take the whole PC landscape into a new dark age.