Technology

TIL there's a name for this

it can be absolute pain for those expecting things to just work without any interest on why they experiencing issues.

I think that describes computers.

Windows does the same thing, only worse because it is harder to trouble shoot, and harder to fix if you find yourself at the point where a reinstall is the only way out.

I am dealing with a laptop like that now for someone else, and it would be simple if it was linux, but of course its a pain in the ass because its windows.

it can be absolute pain for those expecting things to just work

Linux Mint just worked.

As someone who tried it for a few months then switched back for several years before returning permanently two years ago: Linux has long had the problem that it's completely ready for different people at different times.

In 2017 it was in pretty good shape if you weren't a gamer, didn't mind tinkering a fair bit, were prepared to learn a completely different two ways of installing software, and didn't rely on proprietary apps (I couldn't get Netflix to work). I was only ready for the tinkering. Also I'd used Ubuntu and gnome just added more changes.

Five years later a lot had changed. I wasn't using Netflix (especially not in the app) for one. But Proton had come around and made gaming just work. My wifi drivers just worked unlike before. Years of mobile app stores and a few months of lemmy had prepared me for repos, even though it still took some getting the hang of to switch from just downloading and double clicking an exe file. But also the software options are increasingly available rather than having to learn to use old school wine while in the middle of a massive change. I still think I should switch away from garuda at some point as I dislike some of the choices it made (no flatpak support for one), but I love aspects of it. And all throughout that time that Linux was getting more accessible to someone like me who isn't a coder, but was tech nerd curious, windows was increasingly getting in my way and becoming anti user.

I think adoption will continue to increase as Linux continues to get easier for more people

I’m too lazy to troubleshoot in Wine.

I've been daily driving Linux for about 3 years now and one major tip I can give is to avoid using non Linux apps as far as possible. When I started with Linux I also tried to get windows apps running on Linux, but this, at least as far as I remember, never worked the way I wanted ans always caused more troubles. Currently I'm at a point where I dont even know when I used plain wine (I am not counting proton) the last time. It has been 2 years at least. I Am using native Linux apps for everything I do. Much less trouble shooting, no need to learn wine additionally to the command line and much less prone to breaking because of an update.