There are entire distros that exist just to be a gaming desktop, they come with Steam installed and configured as a default so you just boot, login to Steam and install your games. All of the weird wine/proton stuff is handled automatically by Steam and if you have any problems, you can go to a single site (protondb.com) and see what settings you need to change.

The entire installation process is just as simple as Windows: click the drive you want to install on, choose a username and timezone, let the bar fill up and reboot.

I lost half of my system and didn't even have to rm -rf /

I still use and support the users of Windows.

I do like winget (and chocolate), but the software repo doesn't have everything and so people are still conditioned into going online and searching for executable file to run as admin.

I can't count the amount of times that I've had to reinstall Windows because a user was tricked into downloading the wrong file and infected themselves (and the rest of the network).

I'd say that if you had a brand new person who needed to learn an OS then Windows and Linux are very close in difficulty as of today. I prefer to use Linux because I like the amount of information and control that is afforded to me

But, I play video games, use VR and deal with applications that only support Windows so I have a Windows drive handy.

Sure, mapping a (Samba) network drive is easy, and possible via GUI, in Windows, but have you tried to use NFS?

You need a Professional license ($100) first of all, and even then, you can only use NFSv3. The Powershell ~~command~~ cmdlet to mount is a trainwreck: >!New-PSDrive Z -PsProvider FileSystem -Root \10.40.1.1\export\isos -Persist!<. It's so bad that Microsoft implemented an alias, 'mount', so you can pretend it's a Linux command and it translates it into Powershell-ese.

Now you gotta upgrade to Windows 11 by next year, use a Microsoft account (Yes, I know the workaround) and let your computer's contents be indexed and fed to Microsoft in the name of integrating an AI feature that's complete opaque to the user.

I'm not a frog that likes to be boiled, so I deal with Linux problems which seems quaint by comparison.

I mean, I was able to figure out how MS-DOS worked as a child just be flailing on the keyboard and reading the errors. It was "easy" because now I know it while Macintoshes may as well have been alien technology. A "mouse"?, moving windows?, you have to find programs and click on them instead of just typing?

You're just used to Windows annoyances and not used to Linux annoyances, that's all.

For example:

Installing and updating a program on Windows is a horror show compared to using a package manager. It expects average users to find, download and run executable files from the Internet and conditions them to approve elevation for anything that asks.

If Windows breaks, how do you troubleshoot it? Maybe Google knows, maybe rebooting fixes it, if not then possibly re-installing the entire OS. It's so bad that if you work with Windows clients you probably already have an image of a Windows install because troubleshooting is so much of a pain it's easier to just completely re-image the machine.

Don't even get me started on how often Microsoft changes the layout of administration tools and system menus or their tendency to change the name of various system components for no logical reason.

I don't think Linux is for everyone, but only because most everyone already has years of Windows experience and forgets all of the frustration and learning.

If you used Linux for just as long as you've used Windows, then editing fstab would seem as trivial a task as pinning an item to the ~~start bar~~ taskbar, or ~~launching a program~~ starting an app from the ~~system tray~~ ~~notification area~~ system tray.

And the fun trivia game: "Is that incoming or outgoing munitions?"

You're right, there's nothing that you can do but give in to the ghouls and take our allotted job, then spend our free time bitterly slinging shit at people who don't follow in our rut.

There's no change possible and anyone who pretends otherwise should be boo'd out of the conversation so we can all return to our miserable lives supporting the corporate boot with our collective necks.

How silly of me for aspiring to more. Thank you, wise young adult, for sharing the wisdom of your many hours looking at an-cap memes. I shall return to my spatula and mop, lest I upset the rest of the cattle.

After all, why shouldn't I use just one more SATA power splitter...

Rounded corners and no border on floating windows has inspired many hate crimes

If you can't *arr, you ain't a pirate.

They say DEI because they can't use racist or sexist slurs. It's a blatant dog whistle and everyone knows what they mean.

And the United States