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  • hperrin@lemmy.catoLinux@programming.devLTT does another Linux Challenge
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    It does not matter that they don’t charge, because you don’t have to sell something for it to be a product. You only have to offer it to a market. You can sell spranglers, and provide sprangler dinchels for free, and sprangler dinchels are still considered your products.

    Since you won’t believe me, here’s the dictionary definition of the word product. I’ve emphasized the important part.

    2 a (1) : something produced

    especially : COMMODITY sense 1

    (2) : something (such as a service) that is marketed or sold as a commodity

    - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/product

    And if you don’t trust that dictionary, here’s another:

    1 [[countable, uncountable] a thing that is grown, produced or created, usually for sale

    - https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/product

    Or if you’d rather trust an encyclopedia, here’s Wikipedia’s entry (emphasis not mine):

    In marketing and economics, a product is any object, service, or system offered to a market to satisfy a customer’s need or want. Products may be tangible, such as physical goods that can be touched and owned, or intangible, such as services, digital offerings, or rights that provide value without physical form. Products are created through processes of design, production, and distribution, and they play a central role in commercial exchange, consumer behavior, and organizational strategy.

    - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_(business)








  • I definitely agree on the average user being more suited to a Linux preinstall. If they want something that just works, they should ask someone who knows. That’s what my parents did, which is why they’re happily running Fedora and have been for years. Fedora just works. I would never recommend PopOS to them.

    Honestly the only reason why PopOS is ever recommended is because rather than the “Install Nvidia drivers” checkbox being during or after install, it’s when you download the ISO. That’s a silly reason to choose an OS. I told my dad to go to the Software app and search for the Nvidia drivers after the install, and his gaming PC works great with an Nvidia card.

    The single biggest reason people don’t think Linux is easy is because they learned to use Windows when they were young and don’t remember that process. Since they don’t remember all of the hassle of learning Windows, the hassle of learning Linux seems unreasonable to them. Like seriously, no one is born with the knowledge of what the fuck C:\ means.

    In reality, people are fine making decisions about basically everything they do. If they weren’t, we would all be driving the standard car, eating the standard food, and watching the standard show. Oh and we’d all be using Mac, which is the standard OS. Mac is the only mainstream OS which perfectly implements the POSIX standard, so by the most literal definition, Mac is the standard.





  • Haha, I managed to bork my wife’s Windows 11 install so hard the other day just by resizing the partition that not only would it not boot or recover itself, but it also lost a bunch of her files for some reason. Not all, but her entire AppData folder. Had to reformat.

    Anyway, an average user would just try a different distro. He should try a different distro. PopOS kinda sucks.


  • Do you honestly think this video was not a review of Linux? Just because they call it a challenge doesn’t mean it’s not a review. But fine, we’ll call them testers. IMHO, that is the worst kind of tester.

    Multiple times while he’s talking about his experience, he’s attributing bugs in Cosmic to everything except Cosmic. Cosmic’s compositor, especially, has a bunch of bugs, and he’s hitting them, while blaming them on Valve and Linux. He doesn’t understand where the bugs are coming from, which, sure, is a bit of an excuse, but, he’s still spreading misinformation. And the best you can say is, well, he’s only spreading misinformation because he’s ignorant. But how does he not realize that it’s his distro when the other guys never see those bugs??

    The fact that you didn’t realize that what he was saying was untrue kind of proves my point. He’s spreading misinformation.




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    The average user is just average. He emulated the worst, most inept, least knowledgeable, and most resistant to learning user he could. That’s not average. It’s prevalent, but it’s not average. He’s emulating the worst stereotypes of bad users and calling it what an average person would do, then implying that the experience he had would be the experience you, the average user, would have. It’s disingenuous and irresponsible.