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Im not doing all that work just to get linux going
I'll tell you a little secret: desktop linux is not very good and it's not getting better. Don't believe anyone who tells you they found a perfect operating system
that work being run installer and then click the install software button and install steam/libreoffice/firefox.
Nah, I'm very computer literate, built my own PC, can troubleshoot most software and hardware on Windows and sometimes Mac... I'm not a genius but my family and friends consider me the 'computer fixer guy' of the group.
I've got Linux on my little laptop - constant troubleshooting. I want a specific program? Ah, well here's this knock-off version that is almost totally functional but pretty inaccessible and the only tutorials for it are buried deep in some random forum, if at all. Oh, and you have to install these other versions and plugins, and it must be done via this specific command line. It's just not accessible for easy use yet. Gaming? Oh, just use proton, except for this particular game, where you have to... go to some niche forum and follow a 25 step guide, and then it might work, depending on your graphics card. Come on, try it, don't you have a spare 4 hours to set aside?
It's almost inevitable given that the computing monopolies don't optimise for Linux at all. It's a hostile environment, and to me it's still more hassle than it's worth.
I think if I had a day or so to set it all up with a Linux expert they'd have me on the right course, but as far as plug and load goes, in a time when I don't have any time at all, Windows just works.
Maybe I just haven't found the right Linux version for me yet.
Of course, it's being enshittified faster and faster. I'd like to jump to Linux some day properly.
You might say: 'MaoTheLawn', you're a stupid moron, its totally easy!
If it was, I would be saying it was! It just isn't a simple enough switch for someone who has a million and one other things going on in their life.
Deceiver. If Linux was so simple Linux users wouldn't constantly be posting for help to get shit running
windows users do this too people are just totally desensitized to it
I agree. I've fully been on Linux for almost a year now. Anyone who portrays Linux as being that straightforward and uncomplicated is being misleading and inaccurate. Linux is difficult. Getting it to do things you want is difficult. It takes time and energy and interest.
I'd still advocate to use it. Linux gets easier every year and long may that simplification continue. But don't jump into using Linux if you're not ready to.
I ran archinstaller, then installed plasma, and everything works. My media keys, function keys, suspend on close, all the basic tooling of userspace is there. I guess I had to read a paragraph on a wiki page to make the fingerprint scanner work but I literally just searched "thinkpad fingerprint arch" and installed fprint so hardly mystical.
Newbies would post about Windows and Mac if they didn't come pre-installed.
understandable, have a nice day