• Julian@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    #1 is just not being the default for 99% of devices. If someone gets a new computer, why would they go through the effort of installing a new os when the one it comes with works fine? Hell, I bet at least 50% of people in the market for a pc don’t even know what an OS is.

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    1 year ago

    New user: I have a problem 😊

    Everyone:👍

    • are you on xorg or wayland?
    • pulseaudio or pipewire?
    • what WM/DE are you using?
    • amd or nvidia?
    • what distro?
    • systemd?

    New user: Nevermind 😮‍💨

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      1 year ago

      if a new user is using a distro that doesn’t use systemd they fell for a meme

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        1 year ago

        if a new user is using a distro that doesn’t use systemd they fell for a meme

        Or they hate fridge art like systemd and are on something like PCLinuxOS or Alpine.

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          1 year ago

          That’s what I mean though, why would a new user be running alpine as a desktop os?

  • smoothbrain coldtakes@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The main issue is that easy problems that should be solved baseline by the OS crop up far too often for the average user to want to have to deal with day to day. Also, whenever you go to ask on a forum, you’re usually told to just do something entirely different or use another distro. Every time I go to fix something on this machine it sends me down a rabbit hole of shit I don’t care about because it doesn’t solve my problem since it introduces a brand new one to solve. If I want to use solution X don’t tell me to go install program Y that’s your favorite program to use but is literally not what I’m trying to accomplish.

    Today I installed Manjaro onto an old laptop and for the life of me I could not figure out why it wasn’t connecting to the internet. It wasn’t a network issue, it was the fact that the time was out of sync. It took me a while to realize that was the issue and not that I had fucked up my router config or something. It just couldn’t validate any cryptography because the time was off. There were like four different solutions that all attempted the same fix and eventually I was able to connect with ethernet and restart timesync, which only worked after a restart.

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    1 year ago

    It breaks. And I cant imagine anyone who wants to spend time fixing it, much less how long it would take tech illiterate people. Cant explain how many times ive gotten some random error downloding a package, and even ill have a hard time finding what tf the cryptic error message means

    That and permissions, though they could be lumped into the first point