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cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Linux transition difficulties are real though. If someone isn’t mentally prepared to face the learning curve, then you better be ready to be the one on-call all the time for their tech problems. My wife shall remain on Windows as her tolerance of tech hiccups is almost zero.

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Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There are two types of linux transition:

Oh no, this thingus broke, how was it that I did this specific things on my other OS? Oh I need to go to terminal to fix this, and get this thing from git…

Firefox instead of edge go brrr. I don’t even know what an OS is.

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KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This was the biggest hurdle to me making the switch - I didn’t have a support network, and while I’m tech savvy enough to research my own solutions, it was scary to potentially be out a computer while doing so. In reality, it was a non-issue. Answers are easy to find and even CLI solutions usually just amounted to copying a command from a forum post and pasting it into the terminal. Obviously not the best security to be running terminal commands you don’t understand but it was a good way to learn (for me).

Point being, if it’s someone who isn’t completely helpless, teaching them “Just type ‘debian’ + ‘problem’ into Google” will probably solve 90% of issues a non-power-user is going to have.

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J3N5T4R@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The hardware someone has also needs to support it. Mine doesn’t. Can’t afford anything else.

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Bullerfar@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yep, and this is the majority of computer users unfortunately. However, I got my mom on OpenSUSE from winblows. Since she almost only uses browser for everything. This transition was pretty easy. I am only have to visit once in a while to make sure the machine is up to date, otherwise she is happy.

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