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[-] SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Do you ever feel tired of having to type 55 lines of commands into the console just to open Wine to actually use your pc?

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Not really because I just use the stuff. I only use the command line for very basic stuff, usually.

Linux is really nowhere near as hard as you're making it out to be, 99% of the time.

Yeah, there are times when you run into edge cases that are frustrating. Although I've had that with windows once in awhile.

I've used Mint for about 10y then ran into a situation where AMD gfx card was too new for the kernel and switched to a Fedora based distro. Which is kind of outrageous to have to do that. But that's the first time in a decade.

I try to stick to hardware that is fairly mainstream or which implements mainstream standards.

It helps a lot if you're comfortable with bash. Otherwise if you run into issues and some website gives you a bunch of commands they look like line noise.

I mean, *nix is kind of arcane. But once you know about command format, pipes, redirects, and maybe a couple dozen commands, it gets a lot better.

I learned all this stuff back in the late 80s so it is second nature to me. But it was a learning curve back then. But then, so is powershell or dos.

[-] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Linux isn't hard, I just have 30 years experience and know my way around a console.

Linux is really nowhere near as hard as you're making it out to be, 99% of the time.

The general populace are nowhere near at competent as you're making them out to be, 99% of the time.

3% desktop marketshare. Linux won't be seen as a viable solution until it is capable of handling an idiot half as well as Windows.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I don't disagree with the bit about general users... but I don't know that Windows handles idiots all that much better, based on how it's handled me (an idiot).

Sometimes issues come up in an OS which require some intensive searching or a help desk (H4B grrr). Although I haven't had to reinstall Win anytime in the last like 15 years or more.

I think software availability plays significantly in terms of viability of Linux for desktop.

[-] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Windows is still a middle ground of functionality and user safety. Better for corporate tasks than a Mac, better for gaming than both, and benefits from massive marketshare making their systems better knows though osmosis, superusers still know their way around windows as well as any knows theirs around Linux.

Developers aren't going to go after a 3% desktop market share of Linux users so most software development is still Windows and .net based in the corpo and developer spaces.

Linux as a desktop OS lacks both usability and compatability still. I don't have to emulate shit in windows to do anything. No wine, no Proton, nothing. A normal user never has to touch a console in windows. Until you can go the lifetime of a PC for a regular user not needing the console then Linux will not be as viable as Windows for 'regular' users.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

*typetypetype*

*3D printed arm connected to raspberry pi opens wine bottle on desk*

*glug-glug-glug*

Now I'm ready to use my pc

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