Let's be real for a second. A normie would appreciate that there is a login that have saved their favorites and how their desktop is setup. A normie would appreciate that it remembers they are giving you localized news and weather and traffic.
A normie does not put privacy that high as a priority than you.
Trying to suggest that Linux is now ready for normies is a disservice to normies that try it and will never try it again for another 15 years.
If you hand someone a computer and powered up terminal and ask them to install an app like Tailscale. Watch them struggle without searching a forum on how to do it.
A normie will have zero clue what is a app get. A normie won't know you have to use a dash for app-get on some operating systems vs another one.
I don't want thousands of solutions. I need 1 that works out of the box for the OS I just installed. Also, why are there thousands of tiling solutions? How do I parse through all of them to know which one to install? Out of the thousand of solutions, which one will become abandonware or already abandoned?
I don't disagree with you. I'm 100% onboard with your assessment on someone like me. A normie.
The argument here is that this meme suggests that Linux wasn't ready for normies 15 years ago and is ready now(2025). My argument is it is not. Normies do not use terminal. We want intuitive UX. We want a smart decision tree of options we can take. What we don't want is entering a script in terminal that could fail because we forgot a dash or transcribe a forward slash to a backslash.
Also, what you consider "basic" is relative. Your knowledge of computers is vastly different across the world.
I had a forum member on Reddit call me an idiot because I didn't know what sudo was. Does that make me "basic"?
I'm obviously going to be downvoted for this, but the second you ask me to use the terminal is the second the OS is not ready.
Last week I reinstalled Windows after trying MintOS. I have a 54" Ultrawide screen monitor and I wanted the windows to snap in 3 sections.
I spent a few hours in terminal trying to install something after trying everything in flatpak. Windows 11 split screens out of the box. It can even tile. You can even use hotkeys to snap left and right.
In order for normies like me to switch, you have to make the OS at as easy to use as Windows. Don't make us use terminal like I'm on DOS.
First time I went to Greece as a stupid American. Went into thinking bullfighting was like the cartoons. Bull gets mad at red and attacks the matador.
I ended up watching a bull murder. They stabbed the bull with a fucking sword before the "fight" even began. So the bull is basically bleeding out. Then the matador got onto the arena and did his thing.
At this point, the bull didn't care about the color red. The only reason the red cape was used is to hide the blood from the bull. The bull was in fighting to survive. It doesn't matter who was in front of him.
It was one of the grossest and inhumane thing I have seen in my life. I'm glad they banned this.
This will be my 3rd. But the first one mostly influenced my parents. We just felt shitty when our parents couldn't afford anything for us during Xmas. That was also the time my parents told us Santa wasn't real which made sense why the asshole in class always got the good shit.
Some of us have older processors that is more powerful than some current gen processors yet Microsoft decided that it's too old and won't let you install it.
Tiny11 is a community driven OS. I have been using it for years and has never given me any problems. If your computer is not able to legitimately upgrade to Win11, you can either spend money to buy a newer computer or install Tiny11.
Let's be real for a second. A normie would appreciate that there is a login that have saved their favorites and how their desktop is setup. A normie would appreciate that it remembers they are giving you localized news and weather and traffic.
A normie does not put privacy that high as a priority than you.
Trying to suggest that Linux is now ready for normies is a disservice to normies that try it and will never try it again for another 15 years.