• fidodo@lemmy.world
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    Pros of Linux: does exactly what you ask it to do.

    Cons of Linux: does exactly what you ask it to do.

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      Reminds me of my first day of a computer programming class. My teacher told us to write down instructions on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Then he would follow the instructions.

      “Put the peanut butter inside two slices of bread.” He’d grab the jar of peanut butter and put the whole jar inside two slices of bread

      “Grab a knife and scoop out the peanut butter.” He’d start stabbing the lid.

      Beautiful analogy of what it’s like to deal with technology

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        that’s good, but real computer programming is more like

        Error: file “PeanutButter.h” not found

        Exit status code 1

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            What language is this capital I If acceptable and how do I purge it from my brain.

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          Exit status code -3736228494

          In a Java program that isn’t supposed to be able to break like that

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        Modern operating systems question you and ask you to input —no-preserve-root, unfortunately

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    “I can actually control and issue commands by myself instead of relying on shady installers and other type of automated-related stuff?”

    “Whoooooa, whoa now buddy… that is too much.”

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    It does exactly what the people on the internet are telling me to make it do. There’s a big difference.

    I know it’s hard to accept, but Linux (no matter the distro) requires external help a lot more than Windows or OSX, even for people who are tech literate.

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      External help on linux: actual people responding, explicit error messages and commands, everything transparent.

      External help on windows: try reinstalling drivers/vc redist, bro. marked as solved, OP and a bunch of other people still saying it didn’t do shit

      Also just disagree on needing any more help. Not my experience at all.

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      Preach. I love Linux. I run PopOS and have tried several distros. I ran Linux only from 2008-2013. It’s gotten so much better than it used to. But there is still so much to do if we ever want to reach mass desktop adoption.

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          A good goal to have. I’m super happy with the work Steam has done to make more games compatible. 5 years ago I’d say less than 5% of my library would have worked in Linux and now it’s closer to 60-70%!

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    I got a new pc so I started messing around with linux on the old machine after 10 years or so from last using linux. The pc has an i7 from 2009 16g ram and gtx1060 and a ssd for os. Running popos. Going in and playing some steam games natively made me very happy with experience on that machine.