• jaschen@lemm.ee
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    17 hours ago

    If you hand someone a computer and powered up terminal and ask them to install an app like Tailscale. Watch them struggle without searching a forum on how to do it.

    A normie will have zero clue what is a app get. A normie won’t know you have to use a dash for app-get on some operating systems vs another one.

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      9 hours ago

      Watch them struggle without searching a forum on how to do it.

      Wow, you mean someone wont know how to do something if they’ve never done it before and are forbidden from looking for help? Astounding, get a research team on this.

      A normie won’t know you have to use a dash for app-get on some operating systems vs another one.

      But a single search will return dozens of results of the correct answer and then they’ll know, because it isn’t actually difficult and your argument is based in “I don’t want to learn” dressed up as “it’s too hard”

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        2 hours ago

        But why do I need to do a search? Why isn’t it already installed and ready to go? Why must I find drivers for a hardware when I can just plug it into a Windows computer and 99% of the time it starts working?

        This meme advertise that Linux is in equal footing with Windows. Yes, Linux has better privacy. But you can’t deny the usability of Windows. Until Linux has the same feature set prebuilt in, Linux is going to never be ready.