I’m all for welcoming and teaching everyone, but I’m getting real tired of all the “Linux will never catch on because grandma can’t instantly VM-passthrough her NVIDIA card and remote in with Wireguard” or “changing the wallpaper requires terminal-ninja skills” rhetoric.
Some common things could use simpler on-ramps but people act like mega-corpo you're-too-dumb-let-us-do-it-for-you -ification is some kind of “good thing” for tech adoption , when the strategy is really to create dependent customers without a fundamental understanding of how anything works.
Everything I selfhost was easily setup with a simple compose file and various env files for each resource. What the heck was he trying to setup? I haven’t used Windows in a long time, but I doubt they have anything as easy as a declarative file like compose.
I have a coworker who went from windows only to “i want to try self host a bunch of stuff”
Ran into lots of learning curves and problems
Conclusion? “Linux sucks! Too difficult!”
Oh well at least I know when something is over my head.
Technically difficult thing is technically difficult, let’s blame John Linux for not making a big red “host server” button.
Man. THANK YOU.
I’m all for welcoming and teaching everyone, but I’m getting real tired of all the “Linux will never catch on because grandma can’t instantly VM-passthrough her NVIDIA card and remote in with Wireguard” or “changing the wallpaper requires terminal-ninja skills” rhetoric.
Some common things could use simpler on-ramps but people act like mega-corpo
you're-too-dumb-let-us-do-it-for-you-ification is some kind of “good thing” for tech adoption , when the strategy is really to create dependent customers without a fundamental understanding of how anything works.Skill issue.
Everything I selfhost was easily setup with a simple compose file and various env files for each resource. What the heck was he trying to setup? I haven’t used Windows in a long time, but I doubt they have anything as easy as a declarative file like compose.
A more accurate Conclusion: “Just learn sincerely”