• @Wodge
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    910 months ago

    To add to this. Most complaints about windows from linux users are just people who don’t know how to use windows, which is kinda embarrassing considering its the most used OS by a really big margin.

    • @[email protected]
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      410 months ago

      Do you have any examples? I dont think I have seen complaints about Windows that are invalid if you knew how to use it.

      • @TheBSGamer
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        210 months ago

        I have another example from a few months ago where a guy was complaining that he couldn’t uninstall Edge without doing a bunch of registry tweaks and unofficial things to remove it, and that was why he switched to Linux. When the Chrome version of Edge came out though, there’s literally a setup.exe that you can run with an uninstall arg and it will uninstall it no questions asked.

        • Hello Hotel
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          110 months ago

          The uninstall button. The game is great and all that, but god it is hard to fully remove all the junk it leaves behind on your system. /s

    • @[email protected]
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      -310 months ago

      Linux based OSes are by far most popular globally. Windows is only super popular on desktops and laptops.

      • @Wogi
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        1210 months ago

        I’m willing to bet that 95% of the users using a ‘Linux based OS’ would have absolutely no clue, and if you put them in front of a desktop with Linux on it they’d be as lost as anyone else.

        • @[email protected]
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          710 months ago

          I’m willing to bet 95% wouldn’t care, they have their web browser there and that’s all that’s needed.

          I’d even go so far as to say most people would find a stable Linux distro with GNOME easier than Windows. The user experience for most part is closer to that of your Android phone.

          • @Wogi
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            410 months ago

            That’s kinda my point, Android is a Linux based OS. But go to any random guy with a Samsung and ask him to install Minecraft on a Linux desktop and he’ll have a panic attack.

            • @[email protected]
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              410 months ago

              I wish more distros had flatpak installed by default, so I could just say "same way as on your phone, from ‘app store’ "

              • @TheGrandNagus
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                010 months ago

                I mean, even if the distro doesn’t have Flathub enabled by default, a program as popular as Minecraft will almost certainly be in the repos anyway.

            • @TheGrandNagus
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              open app store > search ‘Minecraft’ > press install

              It’s literally harder to install on Windows

            • @bbuez
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              010 months ago

              I mean, you just download the jar installer from the website… I do get your point, but things have changed seemingly over the past few decades, as I’ve only been maining popOS for about 3 years. But I was honestly shocked I could still run so much with near negligible hassle: couple steam games liked an earlier version of proton more, web work I would argue has been easier for the most part

      • @[email protected]
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        110 months ago

        Isn’t that mostly due to Linux being widespread on servers, and by extension Android? (And if we’re talking Unix, then MacOS, too)

        • @[email protected]
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          310 months ago

          Yeah, Linux has some high 90s percent “market share” in server space. Android is a “cherry on the top” with vast majority of mobile phone markwt

        • @TheGrandNagus
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          110 months ago

          Practically all servers, Android, and ~11% of the PC market.