Don’t get me wrong. I love Linux and FOSS. I have been using and installing distros on my own since I was 12. Now that I’m working in tech-related positions, after the Reddit migration happened, etc. I recovered my interest in all the Linux environment. I use Ubuntu as my main operating system in my Desktop, but I always end up feeling very limited. There’s always software I can’t use properly (and not just Windows stuff), some stuff badly configured with weird error messages… last time I was not able to even use the apt command. Sometimes I lack time and energy for troubleshooting and sometimes I just fail at it.
I usually end up in need of redoing a fresh install until it breaks up again. Maybe Linux is not good for beginners working full time? Maybe we should do something like that Cisco course that teaches you the basic commands?
It’s not that Linux is hard, it’s that people are used to other stuff and have very little interest in learning something new for no good reason.
Unless you really convince someone that there is a good reason to put in the work, how little it may be, to get used to something new, they won’t do it and complain.
Meanwhile, Windows changes its whole-ass UI (possibly a slight exaggeration but it’s enough that they complain every time) every time a new version’s out yet somehow “something new” doesn’t apply, all of the software people would actually be using is just the same anyway, and the removed/forced “features” don’t count as “good reasons.” Bleh.