• emax_gomax@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Well installing it. That alone requires a challenge most folks probably couldn’t overcome easily. People are accustomed to just getting a computer with a working os on it. Changing that os would be pretty hard for them.

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        3 months ago

        And let’s be real, you at least need a degree of tech savvy to deal with the inevitable issues that will come up. Even on the simplest distro.

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          IDK, only times when I broke things on Debian were when I made the unwise decisions to do things I don’t fully understand (that doesn’t really happen now). And my elderly mom uses Mint with less problems than she did Windows.

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        3 months ago

        Depending on the distro, its generally no harder than windows… infact it probably easier since you dont have to go make an MS account.

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      It’s a different paradigm for windows users. “Why won’t this exe/msi install on my computer?”

      But also, once you realize the unlimited potential to customize it’s pretty special. I, for one, hate using anything without a tiling windows manager.

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          3 months ago

          Red hat based? Install the RPM. Debian based? Install the deb, generally? Install from the repository. You can also install from source if you’d like

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              You don’t generally download the file like you would an exe or MSI on windows. Rather you enter a command line that tells Linux to connect to the repository (like an app store) of that particular type of Linux, pull the latest installation file and install it.

              You can still download the file and install it directly, but it’s not a straightforward double click like on windows.

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                  3 months ago

                  There are GUI wrappers that issue the equivalent commands for you, but a lot of Linux users would just write something like this on the command line:

                  sudo apt install vlc

                  That’s how you would install VLC (media player) on Debian linux without any prior file download or browsing. It connects to the Debian repository for you, downloads and installs.

            • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net
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              3 months ago

              Well yeah this is like asking an oboe player how they control pitch, and they respond “different embouchure is the universal way to do it, but adjusting the reed is the best way”

              Go look it up if you don’t know what the terms mean