The pushback has always been strongest among technologically semi-literates, the same type of people who bitch about Macbooks having the ⌘ key (it's literally just the alt key with a different symbol printed on). Technologically illiterates by and large are as equally clueless about Windows as Linux (and MacOS). They do not know how to install programs the proper Linux way of using package manager or the shitty Windows way of hunting down individual exe files, being more amendable towards the MacOS way of doing everything in the app store. They do not understand basic troubleshooting outside of "restarting the computer," they don't know what the task manager or event viewer is, they don't know what explorer.exe is, they don't even know what ad blocker is. Having said that, I would say actual technologically illiterates don't need a desktop PC anyways and are better off with a tablet like an iPad.
Semi-literates vastly underestimate the amount of knowledge that is completely unintuitive to an actual illiterate. No, pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open up task manager and ending explorer.exe because the display is being glitchy isn't remotely intuitive at all. No, using regedit to edit random shit isn't remotely intuitive at all. I've seen gaming forums recommend editing the hosts file. If you can handle editing host, you can handling editing fstab Semi-literates also vastly underestimate the amount of time they spend in cmd. What, you never once ran ipconfig or ping google.com as rudimentary network troubleshooting? You never once ran a chkdsk because your Windows has been acting funky?
Yes, learning how to use Linux in at least a semi-literate fashion is going to take an investment of time and energy. So why would you bother learning new shit? Beyond the technical merits of Linux relative to Windows, the main reason is that Linux has a wide variety of distros that allows you to hop to different distros if the distro you're currently using begins to suck. You can't do this with Windows (or MacOS). Whatever pigheaded decision Microsoft comes up with is something you have to live with. You can delay the inevitable, but at a certain point, you'll have to upgrade your OS to the shitty version with the pigheaded decision. There's no escape. When Microsoft took away the start menu in Windows 8, your only options at that time were holding out with XP/Vista/7 until Microsoft stopped supporting them, installing third-party software which at the time was completed closed software and taking the risk of malware, or getting on your knees begging Microsoft to re-add the start menu, which they eventually did with a crappier version.
Linux is another story. If some distro is making crappy design decisions or cannot stop shitting on itself (current distros in the hot seat are Ubuntu and Manjaro), you can simply hop to another distro. Manjaro not getting their shit together doesn't impact people who use Ubuntu or Fedora or Debian or any other non-Arch-based distros and they mostly don't affect other Arch users. If a desktop environment is beginning to suck (current DE in the hot seat is GNOME), it's a relatively simple matter of just picking a different DE.
The pushback has always been strongest among technologically semi-literates, the same type of people who bitch about Macbooks having the ⌘ key (it's literally just the alt key with a different symbol printed on). Technologically illiterates by and large are as equally clueless about Windows as Linux (and MacOS). They do not know how to install programs the proper Linux way of using package manager or the shitty Windows way of hunting down individual exe files, being more amendable towards the MacOS way of doing everything in the app store. They do not understand basic troubleshooting outside of "restarting the computer," they don't know what the task manager or event viewer is, they don't know what explorer.exe is, they don't even know what ad blocker is. Having said that, I would say actual technologically illiterates don't need a desktop PC anyways and are better off with a tablet like an iPad.
Semi-literates vastly underestimate the amount of knowledge that is completely unintuitive to an actual illiterate. No, pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open up task manager and ending explorer.exe because the display is being glitchy isn't remotely intuitive at all. No, using regedit to edit random shit isn't remotely intuitive at all. I've seen gaming forums recommend editing the hosts file. If you can handle editing host, you can handling editing fstab Semi-literates also vastly underestimate the amount of time they spend in cmd. What, you never once ran
ipconfigorping google.comas rudimentary network troubleshooting? You never once ran achkdskbecause your Windows has been acting funky?Yes, learning how to use Linux in at least a semi-literate fashion is going to take an investment of time and energy. So why would you bother learning new shit? Beyond the technical merits of Linux relative to Windows, the main reason is that Linux has a wide variety of distros that allows you to hop to different distros if the distro you're currently using begins to suck. You can't do this with Windows (or MacOS). Whatever pigheaded decision Microsoft comes up with is something you have to live with. You can delay the inevitable, but at a certain point, you'll have to upgrade your OS to the shitty version with the pigheaded decision. There's no escape. When Microsoft took away the start menu in Windows 8, your only options at that time were holding out with XP/Vista/7 until Microsoft stopped supporting them, installing third-party software which at the time was completed closed software and taking the risk of malware, or getting on your knees begging Microsoft to re-add the start menu, which they eventually did with a crappier version.
Linux is another story. If some distro is making crappy design decisions or cannot stop shitting on itself (current distros in the hot seat are Ubuntu and Manjaro), you can simply hop to another distro. Manjaro not getting their shit together doesn't impact people who use Ubuntu or Fedora or Debian or any other non-Arch-based distros and they mostly don't affect other Arch users. If a desktop environment is beginning to suck (current DE in the hot seat is GNOME), it's a relatively simple matter of just picking a different DE.