Am I the cops or the guy smoking?
You after telling your friends for the 179004th time today that they should just stop complaining about Windows 11 and just use Linux
Submitted 1 day ago by Beep@lemmus.org to [deleted]
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Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 23 hours ago
TheLamb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Always the guy smoking, never be a cop.
But in the meme you’d be the cops lol!
Bullerfar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They will also complain about linux when the things they want to run doesn’t work right out of the box.
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.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
There are two types of linux transition:
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.
J3N5T4R@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
The hardware someone has also needs to support it. Mine doesn’t. Can’t afford anything else.
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.
taiyang@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Weirdly, nothing so far with my latest swap has needed extra attention, but having to manually mount drives every boot (or adjust the config) might confound a former Windowsian. At least with my distro, anyway.