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Sometimes people like to complain about windows and iOS
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this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2025
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There's only so much incessant bitching I can hear about dark patterns, intrusive automatic updates, shoehorned-in and useless AI, zero user choice, planned obsolesence, and being blindsided by enshittification before I say "just try using the free thing that doesn't have those problems".
"I've tried nothing, and I'm all out of ideas." If you have to for work or something, though, I totally get it and encourage the bitching.
They literally pointed out that a lot of the people saying this kind of stuff may genuinely be unskilled when it comes to computers in general.
Why is it "trying nothing" when the other option to get up to speed enough to use Linux is to basically be taking some college-level courses on the side of their every day life just to be able to use their device appropriately?
For people who aren't tech savvy at all, "Ain't nobody got the time for that!" is a completely fucking reasonable response to being told they need to go learn a bunch of shit about some subject they could give a rats ass about.
It's like telling someone who has a law degree and works 50 hours a week at a law firm that if they want more control over their car they need to take some courses on automotive repair so they don't have to deal with an annoying repair shop. As above, ain't nobody got the time for that!
Literally every Linux nerd seems to forget that this is specialized knowledge that not everyone has dumped skill points into.
Not defending the behavior in question, but Linux nowadays is MUCH simpler to understand than Windows or MacOS. It is by far the easiest operating system to change to, and the easiest to learn if you are somehow not familiar with any. From a user standpoint it's the least "techie" OS now (aside from mobile OS of course).
What you describe about "needing to take courses" was true ten years ago, it was probably true three years ago. It is just simply not true now.
I use Arch as my daily driver and it is absurd how easy it is to use.
Updating all drivers and programs and the system updates in one command is so awesome and convenient.
Very easy to use... once up and running. But there are other distros out there (Bazzite comes to mind as a good example) that "Just work" on a level even Macs can't approach. Installation is the only "complicated" part but I'm sure we'll see some manufacturers installing Bazzite by default in good time.
yaysudo pacman -Syu
I don't really use yay much.