I say this as a linux user and liker: if someone has computer problems and your solution is "use linux" that comes off like a mechanic just shrugging and telling you to buy a different car because it won't start, and you need to get to work. Get out of here with that. You're making us look bad
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well written
will take this into consideration the next time someone has pc issues
if your car is broken
telling them to get a new car by whatever means is not the help that was asked for
a baseline ubuntu gnomw install w
open office
firefox abp ublock origin
clipgrab
clam av
krita
gimp
audacity
will allow most ppl to get along fine wo windows especially when the tell you your device is too old
thunderbird
biggest downside to old machines is the power consumption
It's better to help fix the problem while still offering an alternative solution for later. Not everyone can upend their setup like that.
Maybe a better spin on this analogy is "buy a manual transmission, because they're 'better'".
A stick shift may have advantages, but people are gonna grind gears *a lot* while learning.
(2024 roughly 50% of the new cars were manual shift)
Telling people, "Just use Linux" is essentially blaming them for not already having done it and signalling that they're on their own if they try it.
I can't stand working on Apple products though.
But I don't really care what people use, it's not my computer!
Bash maybe familiar to Linux users, but PowerShell has more than a few modern advantages ( and runs on Linux)
Not asking you to get a new car.
Asking you to consider upgrading the tape deck.
learn how to compute properly and you won't have that problem.
and sometimes cars are a piece of shit. 👀 at jetta.
I can load windows on ten machines from probably the 90's to current day, and it works. Linux can not do that... even today.
There are, however, instances where Linux or any kind of Unix shell at least makes life so much easier. Case in point, my partner had a bunch of (100+) .txt files to rename to .lua.
I got him to install Git Bash to get a working bash console without the full WSL installation and showed him:
$ for i in *.txt; do mv -v "$i" "${i%txt}lua"; done
Get-ChildItem *.txt | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.Name -replace '\.txt$','.lua' }
or
Get-ChildItem *.txt | rename-item -newname { [io.path]::ChangeExtension($_.name, "lua") }
Command Prompt:
ren *.txt *.lua
Get-ChildItem *.txt | rename-item -newname { "$($_.BaseName).lua" }
Or
Get-ChildItem *.txt | rename-item -newname { $_.BaseName + '.lua' }
Never knew about the cmd option though - definitely simpler. Every day something new. Even if it's quite old 😅
ren *.txt *.lua
become possible?
No one should be seriously suggesting it outside of the edge case like a Steam Deck or something.
You’re a hobbyist so tinkering and futzing with stuff is half the fun. Linux desktop is made for hobbyist by hobbyist with zero input or consideration for non-hobbyists.
I’m telling you straight up that your mindset is very out of date.