There might be a very simple explanation for why the masses have yet to adopt Linux as their desktop operating system and it's one the open-source community won't like.

I’m curious to hear thoughts on this. I agree for the most part, I just wish people would see the benefit of choice and be brave enough to try it out.

    • maëlys@feddit.de
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      11 months ago

      no but people kept recommending fedora (and debian). didnt know there were multiple versions of fedora. ubuntu doesn’t look as serious.

      • QuazarOmegaA
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        11 months ago

        Ah I get it, it’s really solid so I don’t think you’d have regrets, plus you get up to date software!

        Ubuntu is really just meh these days, it is still pretty reliable, but it doesn’t look like they’re really caring a lot about their users, just my outsider opinion, as I left it a few years ago now

        • maëlys@feddit.de
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          11 months ago

          i could really use a take such as yours. there necessarily should be a reason why u changed distros. now my doubts are getting confirmed

          • QuazarOmegaA
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            11 months ago

            I did it for 3 reasons:

            • hunting for PPAs, which was annoying
            • older versions of software, especially for development, I used to try out new features a lot for things like PHP and other stuff (but it’s kind of a moot point now with things like Distrobox or Nix)
            • upgrades to the latest major version often breaking because I first moved to the latest non-LTS and then, when it came out, to the newest LTS, contributed by the fact that the PPAs would break, since the devs behind them needed to push a new version for the last Ubuntu release

            Today I still wouldn’t use it for their push of Snap, I just don’t dig it, I much prefer Flatpak for my apps

            • maëlys@feddit.de
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              11 months ago

              i am no dev but also i dont like when other stuff break when i install new stuff and have to spend hours looking up guides to troubleshoot. so at least we share a common middle ground