If people didn’t come out of the woodwork to tell people welding was so simple that their 5 year could do it then maybe they’d be less turned off by the time and effort it takes to learn it.

Specifically? I don’t know. It would likely help if the conversation around new user distros was a bit less of an argument or if the number of suggested distros was a bit less. It would help with the decision paralysis aspect of it at least. I see enough threads of experienced users troubleshooting more than I really want to deal with, I stopped maintaining my modded skyrim installation because I was fixing when I could be playing and I don’t like the idea of my whole computer being like that because I chose the wrong hardware (I have nvidia)

I know its one of the strengths of Linux, but I can’t help but laugh that the response to “you can’t agree on one, how can I?” is for several people to suggest several distros.

The thing is, I don’t care to distrohop and experiment with this or that. I just want to use my computer. Until I see a distro that can convince me that switching will be actually painless (not ‘long time linux user painless’, but ‘casual new user that does more than just web browse’ painless) I’ll just use windows.

I’m pretty sure I’m the only person in my circle who even knows what Linux is.

Linux users can’t even agree on what distro is actually beginner friendly, so how am I supposed to pick one with any confidence?

I’ve never had the settings turned back on after an update, but no I don’t monitor my network traffic, if I cared that much, I’d already be on linux.

People keep saying this, but I’ve never had to redo any of the changes I’ve made.

Well, I deleted Onedrive a long time ago, so no it won’t.

They’ve never come back for me.

Take a picture of your screen.

/s

shut the fuck up, nerd.

Aww shit, we got one of those master debaters.

couldn’t care less*

Since I assume you mean you don’t care.

Good for anyone that lives near a Micro Center then, I guess.

Microsoft Defender

Excuse me?

MY car doesn’t know shit, I was shocked to find out it has the hardware for keyless entry.

But guess I miss the racist candy?

I don’t know it either, but I feel like when someone clarifies, I’ll be like “Oh… OHH! That.”

Oh yeah, the flat earthers, the pictures with lens flare on it being proof of “planet X” and other insanity? The best comedy I’ve ever seen.

These are the kinds of comments that never seem to come up when I’m looking for info about making the switch myself, they make it seem like everything is perfect now and there’s no issues, but these are the exact kind of small problems that end up making me switch back, because I don;t have the patience to sort it out while trying to get shit done. Like, cool, I can play my games just fine, but all of my peripherals have quirks and issues because the software that sets them up has no linux version.