The best one I’ve ever heard is they like the Microsoft wallpapers. Yes i told them you can use them on linux too. But they argued with me that they wouldn’t be compatible.

  • Fleur_@aussie.zone
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    2 days ago

    Here’s my stupid reason. I only play video games, I like using mods, I don’t use steam and all my games come in .exes from fitgirl lol. I’m sure it’s possible to do it on Linux. I’m certain it’s more difficult.

  • Bronzor@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    “I don’t want to learn something new”

    How tf am I supposed to respond to that?

  • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I think I made the mistake of pushing my grandfather away from Linux. He’s retired but does some professional photography; he’s used Photoshop for years, but said he’s open to leaving Adobe.

    One day recently, he told me he heard about “this Linux thing” and asked me if it would be a good fit and run Windows applications well. I told him his main issue was probably Photoshop, and that even switching, he’d still need some stable, consistent way to open past PSD files. In retrospect, maybe I should have looked more closely at his use case to see the complexity of his edits and if they might have worked well in another program that runs on Linux.

  • blackbrook@mander.xyz
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    4 days ago

    This was quite a few years ago, but a friend of mine said he’d tried Linux but had switched back because some clipboard feature he was used to using didn’t work (sorry, I forget the details). He was a programmer to, so perfectly capable of troubleshooting or finding some alternative tool. I just stared at him dumbfounded.

    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      I get him though, mouse wheel click for a secondary copy buffer is one of the main things that’s extremely annoying to me when I have to use Windows, I can never retrain my brain to stop doing it and I get annoyed that it doesn’t work until I remember why.

    • AppearanceBoring9229@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      Sadly its really hard to change habits. But it goes both ways, every time I need to use windows I find myself grunting for every minor thing that doesn’t work as expected.

  • Decency8401@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 days ago

    “Linux isn’t made for professional use” - Colleague from Work who is an Apple stan. And yes he bought the Apple™ Cloth for iPhone.

  • apostate9@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
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    4 days ago

    The whatchacallit, terminal with super cryptic commands is too hard. When I go on the internet and say my system has a problem and they tell me to type sudo pacman -Syu, I need something more easier than that. You know like-- with more steps. And five modal GUIs. And buttons.

    • TerHu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 days ago

      my motherboards drivers don’t come with windows, and so when i tried to install it and it forced me to connect to the internet, i just couldn’t. luckily i found a usb dongle to ethernet which worked ootb.

      never had a weird mono driver issue like that on any linux distro i tried.

  • hawgietonight@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Most silly excuse was my boss refusing to install Linux because he just had a friend give him original windows 98se licenses for the PCs we just bought for the company.

    Well it gets less silly thinking that getting the eprom programmer software and orcad 4 working on Linux was probably impossible.

    Then it was outright the best decision ever, because those machines never required a reinstall and worked flawless for the 5 years I was there working. Never understood the bad rep W98Se had. Never used it on my personal rigs of course.

  • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz
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    4 days ago

    the dumbest reason was that they hate penquins, but the one you can’t argue with is that they don’t need to because it does all they need it to do