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And here I am at 58 years old still having to fix millennial and zoomers issues.

Doesn’t mean all millennials or zoomers are technically illiterate. Means that they had to focus on other things to live in their lives.

Want people to learn how to research and grow? Meet them where they are on their journeys.

Not pretending anything. Saying they’re both acting silly. Eos.

Have a nice day

we should all be extremely well versed in how our government works, how to make meals , how to fix our clothes, how to grow our own food, and how to spot a person who’s scamming us, as well be able to do all of the other specialized things humans need ti stay alive

guarantee neither of us knows everything on that list as well as we should, I a double damn guarantee those re all far more important than a PC .

not that hat you do, or your interest aren’t important to you, and I am not making light of then, but I think you get where I’m heading

took over 55 years for me to stop assuming we all have the same 24 hours we don’t , so we prioritize learning different things to survive

They can and should. But they don’t. They really only cater to the techie, because that’s who uses it

Then they got pissed when their “marketing” efforts fall shorts.

Stop acting like non Linux users are dumb. They aren’t. they’ve used the time others spent learning other thing, while others spent their time on techie things . Their priorities were different. Or maybe their poor and don’t care about that as they need a PC but have to work 80 hours to feed their family.

But no. Instead of making life better through foss for those who need it, you’re making Linux some unattainable nerd toy.

We can tell ourselves we don’t care. But we do. Or the thread wouldn’t be here

Or, maybe yo will understand when you grow up that people are good at different things.

Garuntee there’s some pretty easy things for me to do that you would get left behind trying to do, and not just on PC

Same for you. You know some things you’d blow me away doing.

Just because you don’t know what I know , and vice versa, doesn’t mean people are dumb.

Means they’ve learned different things.

You’re both being silly. Ones a gatekeeper, ones a name caller

Want to know what’s wrong with Linux? The community.

Are seriously that obtuse.? Why would Anyone think any better of your conversation when that is the level of discourse you bring?

"Wut? " What a classic symptom of the dumbing down of society, but you go ahead and keep feeling superior

“Wut”. Way to make yourself look less than literate.

In any case I’m done with this. Have a good day

So. We just encourage ignorance and security threats so we… can… be … better than them? I don’t think that’s the healthiest outlook …

Super glad you understand my point. it honestly is the one thing holding us back I believe

Yeah I love linux, but it’s user experience , while light years ahead of what I used in the late nineties and early aughts, is still clunky compared to others.

That being said, honestly most of linux’s issues are GUI related, when it comes to going mainstream. The capabilities and efficiency are far ahead of windows and mac os but most users don’t care.

Directions, examples and mundane work should all be seamless for mainstream consumers.

A good rule of thumb is, " if a user has to look for it to fix it, or open a terminal window to install software, then it won’t be accepted fully.

Mainstream users don’t want to type commands in a prompt. Why does everyone think windows blew DOS out of the water in sales? It wasn’t because DOS wasn’t working. It was, hell early windows ( I started on 3.11 so that’s my limit of knowledge ) still used DOS.

So bottom line. Start putting the non tech consumer first or we’ll forever be stuck in this “almost mainstream” category forever.

yeah., I think end of the day. its really about personal preference. I prefer linux because I am done with corporations controlling and ruining my life

Of course I’ve used windows. From 3.1 to 11.

I’m in Linux now. Been using that A long time as well

Additionally very very few people even know what a registry editor in windows is

Because what they want windows to do doesn’t need them to understand it. That’s the point.

They click a couple buttons, windows crashes behind the scenes then loads again , all without the user seeing it now.

Back in the day the bsod would show up but they got rid of it.

Now dos (both ibm and Ms ) that was a fun thing to play with. .

So Linux can be a pain in the Ass to set up done things, but I’d light years ahead of what it was in the late 90’s