I don’t care one bit about upgradability or customizability. After a year or two, I’m happy to throw it out and buy a new one. It’s not like upgradability is a bad thing, but it usually comes with tradeoffs to weight and power draw, and I’d rather it all be in one solid package glued together. And I don’t like customizability because I like when all the testing and polish work is put into one configuration.
I used to live in an apartment on a busy street and befriend some of my neighbors. One day, we were helping some other friends of ours move in to a new home. They're from a quieter part of the town.
They were absolutely baffled that we all just walked in and out of rooms slamming doors everytime.
What's in our mind? Well, honestly, we just pay no mind. Where we lived, the background noise was just so loud that the sound of doors being slammed weren't a bother.
This, exactly. As much as I'd want to recommend my personal setup, it's just easier to just tell people to install Linux Mint, both for myself and for them, because of the little amount of steps one would need to do in order to get a working system.
I do wish someone would come up with something similar but with KDE, because of how similar they are to Windows UI, especially Windows 7. Maybe that's just me.
Yeah, I honestly think that, as fun as they are, having too many those tinkering and hacking with Linux videos are doing more harm than good for this cause.
If you're trying to appeal to the common folks, you'd need to break that barrier somehow, and it's probably easier to chisel it down bit-by-bit .
From what I know, the biggest blocker for the switch is that they're afraid they can't do all the stuff they're used to. While there are valid cases, it's mostly FUD.
I think you can start by introducing popular FOSS tools that are available in Windows. With LibreOffice amping up on compatibility with MS Office, now would be good time to tell people they can try it out on Windows
If you use domain-specific tools like Krita, Darktable, Kdenlive, VSCode, Android Studio, KiCAD, or whatever, you can also go thru those. They don't have to be FOSS as long as they're available on Linux (e.g. Steam, Postman, Spotify, etc).
Yeah, he lost me in this paragraph.