I’m curious as to what everyone’s reasons are! The Linux desktop has came quite a far ways in the last few years and is improving every day. I’d say for most people, Linux could easily replace Windows as their daily driver nowadays.

  • fetter@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    I have tried many, many times in the past, and intend to try again in my next build this next summer. However, Linux just did not work for me.

    Biggest issue for me is quite literally any use of terminal is too much use of terminal. If I have to open up terminal at all, windows immediately becomes the preferred OS. I don’t care how easy it is to copy / paste some lines of text that someone else wrote (I have no idea what those commands I’m pasting in do), I just do not ever want to open a terminal.

    I have a steam deck too, and I somewhat enjoyed using it as a desktop with a dock. It seems to run fine! However, I have some issues with apps not updating and whatnot.

    Also, there’s just the issue of learning a whole new os. I did it 5 years ago when I got a new job and it came with a MacBook, and now I honestly love Mac OS. Way better than windows imo, which is promising for me to like a Linux distribution as learning wasn’t so hard!

      • CantaloupeAss [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Not op but it’s just a pain in the ass to learn esoteric, poorly documented commands and navigate a string of cryptic error messages just to access my slop when I’m too tired to exist after work

          • CantaloupeAss [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            2·
            8 months ago

            You are doing your handle justice lmao, respect

            Idk I just can’t be arsed to learn what sudo rf | -m --po "pigpoopballs" -f does, sudo is gibberish, rf is gibberish, | is gibberish, - is gibberish, -- is gibberish, m might as well stand for “meaningless”, and I don’t want to spend an hour on stackoverflow reading a five-way argument written at a technical depth that is several university-level classes beyond my understanding, just give me a gui that works and has nigh-universal support. I look at my computer and I’m like “English mfer do u speak it???”

            If I was setting up a hardcore coding environment or like doing a project with a raspberry pi then I see the utility, but not to connect to my projector at 11pm

            Just my ignorant ass opinion tho

    • Zvyozdochka [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Referring to another reply I made here earlier, it might be worth looking into something like Linux Mint when you get around to your next build. It’s should feel fairly familiar if you’re coming over from Windows and it has simple to use interfaces for all the common day to day things like handling updates, installing packages & drivers, and changing all your settings which is a huge plus for someone who doesn’t want to mess with the terminal.