Is there something like Reddit "mademesmile" group? This really belongs there.
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He will be remembered and revealed by the people who received his wisdom about how to spew sceptic tank around.
His death will inspire all the other sceptic men, and women.
I put that in quotes because geeksquad sometime gets called to literally just connect cables and show the client where the power button is.
And my point is not to blame the clients. My car mechanic may be laughing about me taking the car to do things I can do my self in 5 minutes.
The point is that windows isn't easier. It just has more readily available support and people who start using windows are OK calling someone.
People starting with Linux think that if they find an obstacle, "that's it, Linux bad", instead of paying someone to solve it.
On your last point about it being easier to do a side task while in a meeting. It is annoying that when someone is talking about something important and then they ask someone else in the meeting:"What is your team doing about it?", invariably the response is "doing about what? Can you repeat the question?" Delaying and extending meeting time.
Or later asking questions about what was said in the meeting. Really annoying.
And by the way, probably all of us have at some point been the distracted one.
No, I'm trying to understand why someone would store so many pictures. 20TB is enough for 330 4K movies or 10,000 1080P movies.
"Just in case I need it" is the principle of hoarding.
The real question is:
How do people have so much media to fill up those drives?
Followed by: how do people have so much time to watch that media?
Followed by: human driven climate change is real. How can people waste energy just to hoard media that they rarely ever see again?
I understand somehow if you are torrenting and contributing to the sharing ecosystem, but just hoarding?
Again. Have you used Fedora, Mint, Ubuntu?
Regular people get help with basic stuff in windows All the time. That's why there is a Geek Squad in best buy. That's probably the only thing missing for the non technical Linux users.
If people are paying someone to "install" their printer, why would it be different with Linux.
In fact, in Linux they'd need less tech support as many windows users calls are for slowness, virus and obsolescence.
Let's not compare usability using different standards
Tell me you haven't used a Linux desktop recently without telling me.
"I remember". Using that phrase tells me it wasn't recently enough. And "using it inside windows" tells me you tried to fit a round peg into a square hole or that you don't know what you are talking about.
You may be a MAC fan and that's OK if that works for you, but I haven't needed to use anything else but Linux since 2004 (initially there were always pickups, though) and I've been runing it without issues since probably 2010.
"Microsoft testing new ways to lose customers".
It's well known that piracy was what made Word (.DOC) and Excel (.XLS) the de facto standard.
If the kids at home can't use windows, they'll find something different. And when enough of them find if, when they become decision makers they'll stay away from Windows.
Imagine how different the landscape would be had MS cracked down on Piracy for their flagship programs.
I'm pretty sure even Communists. But your political system and the leaning of most of the US people means that they will never be able to have any impact.
People shouldn't wait to get to that point when all the historical signs point in that direction.
You start with any mainstream distro. Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse, Mint and the like.
The differencea between them aren't relevant to a new user.
You install whatever you are comfortable with to be able to help them.