• KptnAutismus
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    941 year ago

    a good product is the best advertising. make linux usable as a daily driver, and people come flowing in from the shithole that is windows.

    • @MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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      411 year ago

      Linux is a usable daily driver if you’re tech savvy enough. Some distros are even kind enough to be daily driveable by non tech savvy, at least for the normal stuff.

      At this point, it’s possible, but no normie is ever going to know what distros are easy and won’t be getting through an OS installation anyways.

      • Brayd
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        201 year ago

        I disagree while agreeing. The biggest reason people use windows is simply because its pre-installed. That’s the same reason people use Edge on Windows or Bing as their search engine. They get it preinstalled and don’t know how to change it.

        If you install anyone Linux and give them a simple and easy distro preinstalled they’re usually fine with a few words about how to use it, update it and install stuff. Especially if they’re not tech savvy because in this case they wouldn’t know exactly how to use Windows either. I mean look at companies: how many employees use Windows in their daily work but still don’t know how to actually usw windows? They get teached to use their software and tools but not the OS itself and have to figure things out on the OS level if they would want to change something on Windows too.

        My observation was that people that are not tech savvy find it easier to understand some beginner friendly Linux distros than Windows.

        If on the other hand a person is used to use Windows and knows how to actually use Windows it’s harder for them to switch because things are just different on Linux. For me it’s hard and annoying to use Windows which I have to do at work since February. Before that I used Linux in private my whole life, I used it in school because my school never used Windows as one of the few schools in my country and my last employer also used Linux. And from that perspective I can say that Windows is hard and not intuitive. It’s just being used because it’s being used. I guess you could compare it to Whatsapp vs Signal. From an objective standpoint Signal is better but most people still use WhatsApp because others use it and because it comes preinstalled on some Android phones.

      • @Contend6248@feddit.de
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        61 year ago

        It won’t get more normie than SteamOS, it is literally console kind of simplicity with the option to switch to a full blown DE.

        • @MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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          Is it really really easy to install? Several distros are extremely smooth experiences if you don’t have completely weird hardware to support, but their installation is still an actual OS install procedure. As easy as Windows to install, but almost no one HAS to install their Windows like with Linux.

          If steam OS is coming with Wine et. al. already set up (and it’d be silly if it didn’t) that definitely gives it a leg up on most distros for normies, at least.

          • @Contend6248@feddit.de
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            Normies don’t install any OS, they buy devices with it pre-installed and if they fuck their installation up, they search someone who does it for them. Which is (almost) impossible for them to do when the OS has it’s root partition as read-only, like the SteamOS

      • It’s also really difficult to get into if you don’t already have an “in”. Yeah, some distros are pretty easy to use but others aren’t and figuring out which is which is pretty impossible for an outsider.

        • @MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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          21 year ago

          Hopefully they make some in roads. KDE is what I’d recommend for Windows users for sure. XFCE is great too but it feels a little… raw? compared to KDE. Definitely an upside for efficiency, but I think normies would much more appreciate the full-featured feel of KDE.

        • @MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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          21 year ago

          It is after the right distro is installed. The only reason you have to be tech savvy at all to do the basics is because it has to be installed.

    • @Poopmeister@lemm.ee
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      121 year ago

      After I bought steam deck I installed linux on my desktop as a daily driver. Really happy with the results

      • KptnAutismus
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        21 year ago

        i currently run linux mint on an old laptop and try to use it every once in a while. it really is getting more competitive everyday. not ready to switch just yet, but i’m already mostly using open source software which could run on linux natively.