Hahaha I hadn't, it looks like they're just trying to knock off the dock scheme that OS X and GNOME have had going on for years, but doing a bad Microsoft-y job of it
This will make it even easier to convince my in-laws to switch so that I don't have to do Windows tech support anymore
hah yeah, I've been trying to talk them into it for a couple years, they're on the level of "how to I get photos from my phone to my computer" or "my printer disappeared from the options how do I get it back" and that sort of thing, where trying to talk them through it over the phone is pretty hard when I haven't touched windows in over a decade. I'm sure the basics will still come up but at least that way it would just be "open the 'Terminal' program — yes it looks like you're doing hacker shit, it's fine trust me — and type these four commands:"
wish me luck that they'll let me hook them up with Manjaro when their old ass laptop finally gets too slow for them to deal with 🤞
Are you sure Manjaro is the right option 😂 This thread is old now otherwise you'll get yelled at for introducing newbies to Manjaro lol Btw they might really appreciate KDE Connect!
Oh and getting them to use these cross platform programs first might really help, this way they'll be using the same stuff :) good luck 🤞
Thanks! I've had them on Firefox, LibreOffice, and VLC for awhile so I think they should be good there 🤞 I've got to see what else they use, I think it's mostly a glorified browser/spreadsheet/mahjong console
And lol yeah that's a fair point about Manjaro I just use Arch normally so selfishly I wanted to keep things kind of consistent. I'm not the most on top of what's newbie friendly in desktop Linux land — are Ubuntu/Mint still the go-tos for beginner-friendliness? Or anywhere I should look to start becoming more of a linux evangelist when talking to my nontechnical friends?
I really don't think GNOME is newbie friendly for Windows users so I go with Kubuntu but I hear Mint is also a good option. How to become a linux evangelist 🤔 that sure is an interesting question... personally I share cool screenshots from https://libredd.it/r/unixporn/ and try to get ppl to use cross platform apps while talking about how much of a spyware Windows is but this is a great question and you should make a post about it :) we wanna be ruthless and get better at propagandizing linux :sicko-laser:
btw we've a Matrix room for casual chatting about libre and sometimes we cooperate on posts like the ones I linked if you're interested.
Hahaha I hadn't, it looks like they're just trying to knock off the dock scheme that OS X and GNOME have had going on for years, but doing a bad Microsoft-y job of it
This will make it even easier to convince my in-laws to switch so that I don't have to do Windows tech support anymore
:sicko-yes:
If they switch then you probably won't need to do any tech support so go for it!
hah yeah, I've been trying to talk them into it for a couple years, they're on the level of "how to I get photos from my phone to my computer" or "my printer disappeared from the options how do I get it back" and that sort of thing, where trying to talk them through it over the phone is pretty hard when I haven't touched windows in over a decade. I'm sure the basics will still come up but at least that way it would just be "open the 'Terminal' program — yes it looks like you're doing hacker shit, it's fine trust me — and type these four commands:"
wish me luck that they'll let me hook them up with Manjaro when their old ass laptop finally gets too slow for them to deal with 🤞
Are you sure Manjaro is the right option 😂 This thread is old now otherwise you'll get yelled at for introducing newbies to Manjaro lol Btw they might really appreciate KDE Connect!
Oh and getting them to use these cross platform programs first might really help, this way they'll be using the same stuff :) good luck 🤞
Thanks! I've had them on Firefox, LibreOffice, and VLC for awhile so I think they should be good there 🤞 I've got to see what else they use, I think it's mostly a glorified browser/spreadsheet/mahjong console
And lol yeah that's a fair point about Manjaro I just use Arch normally so selfishly I wanted to keep things kind of consistent. I'm not the most on top of what's newbie friendly in desktop Linux land — are Ubuntu/Mint still the go-tos for beginner-friendliness? Or anywhere I should look to start becoming more of a linux evangelist when talking to my nontechnical friends?
I really don't think GNOME is newbie friendly for Windows users so I go with Kubuntu but I hear Mint is also a good option. How to become a linux evangelist 🤔 that sure is an interesting question... personally I share cool screenshots from https://libredd.it/r/unixporn/ and try to get ppl to use cross platform apps while talking about how much of a spyware Windows is but this is a great question and you should make a post about it :) we wanna be ruthless and get better at propagandizing linux :sicko-laser:
btw we've a Matrix room for casual chatting about libre and sometimes we cooperate on posts like the ones I linked if you're interested.