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[+] -12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

I literally use Linux in my daily life non-stop. My desktop is free from Windows and I run numerous servers for various services and microservices.

I just fundamentally disagree with the hivemind that Linux desktop of any flavor is ready for casual user prime-time. Even if they don't have technical issues with now that doesn't mean they won't have technical issues with it ever. In my personal experience, I have only ever had successful long-term rollouts of non-gui cli-only servers. I have always had issues of some sort crop up with desktop Linux eventually.

Further, depending on the DE, getting things set up properly for someone who has, say, vision issues so everything is easily visible for them can often be a fucking nightmare of numerous different config files for different parts of the GUI. Linux accessibility options are notoriously bad.

If you want to pretend Linux is a perfect solution for grandmas, go ahead, but as someone who is a Linux heavy user who doesn't even use Windows anymore and hasn't in a while I think that this attitude from Linux evangelists is deeply rooted in a rose tinted view of the OS and it's user friendliness. And yes I use the term evangelist for a fucking reason, and that is because you people are as fucking pushy about your ideology as evangelical Christians.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I always hate it when people talk about "eventual issues that people will encounter on Linux".

    As if Windows doesn't have those of varying degrees. Usually because Microsoft pushes out an update that breaks things.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    When I used windows, I would have issues every other update.

    With Linux it's like once a year, unless I do something stupid to my own system with sudo.

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