Many of us are notorious fence-sitters. This video attempts to explore some of the psychology of our profound hesitation when switching operating systems. I will share my personal experience, talk about some of the fears we face when making big changes, offer some warm encouragement, and do it all without a whiff of the elitist technobabble that tends to rear its ugly head in Linux discussions.

  • @[email protected]English
    4•3 hours ago

    Fear of change? Hahahahaha

    No, I just know what’s involved, with the unpredictable “gotcha” a year from now.

    Not to mention the knowns. Holy hell switching from Windows to Linux is very problematic for typical end users. Yes, the UI is that different, even with “friendly” distros.

    You say your grandma made the switch? OK, so someone who uses a browser for everything and doesn’t actually use office.

    Let’s see Libre office open an excel spreadsheet with tables.

    Or edit a word doc and send it back and have it not be screwed up.

    Not migrating is practicing risk mitigation. Hell, I can’t change a single setting on work systems without validating that change in the lab first. And you want people to switch entire operating systems. For what?

    So stop this fear projection nonsense.

    (And I work with Linux every day on multiple distros).

    • @rottingleafEnglish
      1•3 hours ago

      Or edit a word doc and send it back and have it not be screwed up.

      It will be screwed up.

      And it’s normal. Things get screwed up.

      Thinking that abusive monopoly is better than things screwing up a bit here and there is just plain dystopian madness.

      I’m so fucking tired of people around not caring about any deep issues, but suddenly becoming perfectionist in cases where that has been advertised to them as norm.

  • nanook
    3•4 hours ago

    I’m not afraid of change, I just want to ensure change is for the better and that change isn’t in a direction we haven’t already tried 3000 times always ending in disaster, socialism/communism being a case of the latter, and Wayland being a change that I consider to be the former, it doesn’t network and that was the whole point of X windows. It was a NETWORKING window system. If you just need local graphics Wayland is fine but it doesn’t fit my use case.