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.
@lordnikon They say “I don’t want to code to download an app”, but there’s actual app stores now on many of the most popular distros.
TBF I for one want to code to install an app. By which I mean use Ansible.
Linux and BSD had package managers before Mac did!
“not polished enough” when comparing to widose
Sounds like they’d like gnome
there’s a meme i’ve seen a few times about how it’s “an operating system for coding”
Some years ago, mentioning Linux for daily non-gaming use:
Guy: “Installing Linux is complicated though”
Me: “It wasn’t bad 10 years ago, and now it’s as hard as clicking Next a few times, even faster than Windows”
Guy: “Well duh, you have ten years of experience installing it!”
Difficult to argue with this non-logic.
My almost 70yr old mother installed mint herself. Her tech literacy level is Word Processing with a dash of Solitaire.
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“I could install linux, but what am I gonna do on Linux?” (Note: Some people just think OS is an amusement park)
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“I could install linux but then I have to type commands into a terminal?”
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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.
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.
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.
My friend said they didnt want to try linux on their laptop because they wanted to buy a new laptop.
I wish I had that problem, I’d jump at the chance to save $2000 and preserve my current device by switching to a free operating system.
Is there some agency out there that I am not aware of that stops you from buying new hardware if you are a Linux user?
One of my favourite things about Linux is that it runs so well on old hardware. I have some pretty old kit that still serves me well.
Bit it runs even better on more powerful hardware. No reason not to upgrade if you have the means.
“it’s not for desktop use”
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.
“I wanna try out this FreeBSD thing.”
Why are you using that shitty kitchen sink that came with the house? You can get a much better sink and install it yourself. Also, the audio system that came with your car sucks. Just install a new aftermarket one, it’s not that hard bro.
Except this is free
That helps, but switching to Linux often is much broader in scope than just the OS. People have time and money invested in software that doesn’t work in Linux. For example, it’s not trivial to switch from Photoshop to Gimp or Krita. In my case, I detest Windows and have many years of experience with Linux, but still begrudgingly dual boot to use Cubase because I haven’t gotten around to learning something that does work on Linux like Reaper. I also have expensive mocap software that only works on Windows, in addition to using MetaHuman Animator in Unreal Engine that still does not support Linux. I’ll probably get around to getting completely off Windows at some point, but even for me who is a die-hard Linux enthusiast, I have to prioritize my limited free time, so I can see where someone who isn’t would be like meh, I’ll just use Windows for now and not bother dual booting.
I also haven’t been successful getting my spouse to switch to Linux, who has only ever used Macs and thinks everything else is overly complicated. My father uses an iPad and a Windows machine for specialized software that won’t work on Linux and has zero interest in dual booting. My kid, on the other hand, has only ever used Linux and has no desire to use anything else.
I feel like most people don’t buy software anymore. Everything runs in the browser.
Like, nerds and enthusiasts and game playing people sure. But most people? Nah. It’s all Instagram, Facebook, tiktok, Reddit, YouTube. Maybe like roll20 if they’re a dnd nerd. Most people aren’t doing Photoshop or blender.
Only if you have a lot of free time and skills.
pretty much every widely used distro has a user-friendly installer and it takes less time than windows does to get installed in my experience
So? People just prefer to use something else. None of my business.
It really doesn’t require much aside from backing up, I can have a linux system up and running with a complete beginner in 30 minutes or so.
Me too. But I’m not going to bother people telling them what they “should” use. And I was talking about the “sink” example anyway.
Sure but these things are not remotely comparable.
Some dude just posted that he’s not going to Linux because he can’t play Rust on it…
These reasons are always the dumbest to me, they act like they can’t dual boot. I think most of the time they just can’t be bothered which is fine, but just say that.
To be fair, dual booting is not really for people that aren’t very tech savvy. Just thinking about trying to explain partitions to some people I know is giving me a headache
I have a dual boot set up, and even I find it annoying to reboot into a different OS just to play an unsupported game. Especially since I use Windows so rarely now that the first thing it wants to do is install a dozen updates.
“It’s old tech”
for alot of people their relationship with windows is like that of an abusive partner. which is why you see alot of the same excuses pop up
Mostly I can’t be bothered, or Roblox won’t run, or some stereotypes about Linux being difficult.
