Paywall

Linux is pretty green at least

Of course, none of us would actually do that, but what I’m trying to say is that’s the threshold. For linux to become mainstream like plenty of users on here seem to vehemently believe, it HAS to start taking cues from windows, that means easier install methods, dumbed down and less terminal based procedures, and more support from mainstream and less open source software manufacturers. Otherwise the average person is going to look at linux and say “that looks hard.” full stop.

And I would reckon a lot of those changes would not go over well with current Linux userbase

Bet, go ahead and grab your parents or the nearest old fart you know who isn’t tech savvy and try to get them to install linux, libre Office, and thunderbird and attempt to use it.

$100 says they won’t make it through using rufus without help

This is absolutely the attitude he was just talking about, you can’t agree, then add a “but”

Linux is not the fix for all that ails you, and it’s especially not the fix for non tech-savvy people, which as a reminder, is most people. Lemmy is not a good baseline for this because we’re all savvy enough to get onto the fediverse in the first place, which in itself is very confusing if you’re non tech savvy or coming from a place like reddit, where things are so fundamentally different.( Which i know for a fact most of you have experienced at some point)

I mean does it matter if you’re frank and say "its happening because you didn’t pay? Its not like they can go to the cops or something

Can confirm, the support forum crowd are dicks

I would like lemmy as a whole to know more of this comic. Hell, the entire tech and coding space. Look, i love tech but some of you guys can be absolute bellends to people not knowing something and it turns plenty of people off from even learning.

“WhAt YoU dOn’T kNoW hOw To MaKe A fIlE? It’S eAsY, iF yOu DoN’t KnOw ThEn YoU sHoUlDn’T bE uSiNg ThIs PrOgRaM!!!”

My brother in Christ maybe they want to learn, some people are neurodivergent and they don’t pick up new information as easily the first go around

Sorry rant over

Dude what are you even trying to say here

He says, looking at a screen

It’s possible I accidentally hit the button, still made me laugh though

Nope, and I know what you’re saying, but I personally consider the times to be garbage as a source or any journal for that matter as long as they charge a subscription fee. The simple reason is that if you’re going to share it with anyone, they can’t see it because of the fucking pay wall, that greatly diminishes its value to me

Why does anyone even still link to that trash publication?

I mean for them it could be, its a huge plethora of data and they’re a blossoming tech company at the forefront of a new technology, they can probably get away with it

Couldn’t tell you the link there, but that’s just what I found out

Wrong site, its the designers fault but the site is bestreamwise.com

Did some digging, guess who runs bestreamwise.com? Give you a hint, it starts with C and rhymes with omcast

I literally just learned about Ctrl+c last week, I’ve been using terminal casually since I was 10, and always thought it was dumb that when a script was stuck hanging that I had to close the command window and redo my steps. I always thought it was weird that you had to right click to copy something and never thought why that might be the case, I have no excuses.

See that last line right there, that’s the kind of snarky shit I’m talking about, go touch grass bud

Oh screw off with your reactionist attitude, the poster asked how people felt about an action and I answered, no need to get all butthurt