Normioe chucklefucks will continue to use whatever came with their $499 best buy computer.
For more tech-conscious people:
The thing is the world operates on incentive/disincentive. The average tech user who could use linux does not have any real incentives to do so. Your tech-aware normalfag doesn't care about privacy because they don't have any unkosher opinions. There are no usability advantages to linux for most users. There are many disadvantages.
-some software won't run/doesn't exist -getting free software that isn't part of the package tree to run can be a pain in the ass -Getting some hardware to run is a pain in the ass -shitty ideosyncracies like screen tearing/other open source driver nonsense are still not a thing of the past -some open source alternatives really are trash tier, stuck in the early 90s -total lack of self-awareness means that many distros are so aesthetically bad that you have to spend 20 minutes to unfuck your desktop environment. Retarded default color schemes. Retarded default wallpaper. Retarded default cursor. Absurd non-standard way of doing UI things, not because it's better, but because the project lead is an autistic faggot.
All of these are no big deal for the average imageboard user, but the reality is that most users don't have the time or inclination to deal with all the bullshit linux entails.
Ubantoo has made efforts to simplify the experience with some new desktop environment. It was a 6/10 effort. Now they've decided to switch DEs again. This is a cardinal sin. Microsoft released the 9x shell in Windows 95. The UI of every version of windows since then works in generally the same way. OSX works basically the same way since the first beta appeared. Your average linux distro has changed desktop environments 17 times in 10 years, meaning a non-tech user has no fucking chance in hell of learning how to use it, and won't put up with the frustration either.
Nathan Powell
The operating system as a whole is technically the GNU operating system. Linux is a component of the operating system known as a kernel.
Since the term "linux" has better name recognition due to marketing from big corporatiins, it's useful to include it in the name, so a compromise is to call the system "GNU/Linux".
The term GNU was coined in the early 1980s. The name come out of an old naming convention that followed three rules. 1) it is a recursive acronym that is 2) a real word and 3) gives attribution to its predecessor. GNU's predecessor is a proprietary operating system called Unix. GNU was made to eliminate Unix and to replace it with a fully compatible system which respects the user's freedom.
GNU stands for Gnu is Not Unix.
William Howard
I hate to say it but image boards after the fappening and mobile became dominant have filled with "normie" idiots. Most of /g/ is windows 7 desktop animegirl threads and "ironically" discussing how great iphones are.
Not only that but they switched to a harder to use DE. At least KDE or Cinnamon are windows like enough that your average person could use them without much effort. I think this is indicative of why linux will never become mainstream (barring some sort of sudden microsoft meltdown): linux devs are insistent on telling users what they want and not the other way around. The average user doesn't care if the desktop metaphor is inefficient, they've been using it to browse the facebooks and they don't want to change.
why the fuck can't people use computers? even my fucking 23 year old peers at university who grew up with them can't seem to grasp basic concepts despite spending 10 hours a day on facebook/reddit/twitter
Cameron Russell
Meanwhile my mom was on Windows 95 until windows 2000 came out then on windows 7 after they stopped updating windows 2000 and now macos so she can more easily message the rest of the family and share photos.
Is my mom gonna start dicking around with desktop environmants when all she wants is to look at cat videos on youtube and type her recipes in MS word?
The point is, linux will always be a fringe OS until it can satisfy a large swathe of users. KDE3 was good, why did they give KDE4 med resistant aids? It's contrary to the unix philosophy to begin with.
What you're missing is that you shouldn't have to learn how to type commands into the terminal in the first place. When my mom switched to a mac everything felt alien to her too. But intuitive in its own way so within a week she was good to go again. Linux is lightyears away from being this way.
package not found:
or how about: >apt-get install unmet dependencies, go fuck your dog
Lincoln Garcia
because they're not reading about hardware/software. they're reading about new genders under development and more self-flagellating ways to check their privilege
Hunter Reyes
Good luck trying to install Win7 on Ryzen, they expect you to do it with a PS/2 port and from CD. Intel doesn't even want you to install Windows 7 natively with 6th-gen i-series, you have to use PCI passthrough to relive the glory days.
It comes down to the distro, how much fat they trim, and their FOSS policy. For example, installing Lubuntu on an old AMD Toshiba laptop is a bad idea because of skimming too much on obscure laptops. Likewise, some laptops come with shitty Wifi cards that blacklist FOSS replacements (like Thinkpad) either from stupidity or malice. When you start seeing the patterns, Linux isn't that hard to switch to. At least Linux gives you the opportunity to improve/make drivers for peripherals you like.
Henry Flores
This x1000. If you autists can't understand that neck yourself.
Carter Cruz
What about busybox/Linux though
Bentley Cook
Bullshit. Here is how it goes: Instead what happens is:
Luke Peterson
jesus fucking christ kill yourself. typing the name of a program in and what you want it to do is not difficult. its not more difficult than a GUI. your mother adjusted to macOS because its interface is basically the same as windows, just a little different. its the same kind of user interface, just implimented a little differently. using a command line is a different kind of interface. its not actually any fucking harder. why the fuck does every single retard like you seem to think that whatever you/people know already is the best because people know it, and that inasmuch as anything else feels any harder at all its because it must just be inherently more 'complicated'? Its not even any harder to skim a manpage than to bumble your away around menues and buttons until you figure out what does what. plenty of normies seem too oblivious and timid to manage the latter anyways.
