• Fubber Nuckin'@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You can install mint or Ubuntu on your grandma’s laptop these days and she will have fewer issues than she had on Windows. I game on Linux and 95% of the time i just install and it runs.

    I wouldn’t say it’s ready for your average user yet, but to say it’s the same as it’s always been is just incorrect.

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      1 year ago

      Desktop Linux distros are playing catch up. Yeah, you can finally browse the internet, cool stuff! Now go watch 4K on Netflix. Maybe your grandma would be fine today, I don’t know. But a lot of people still need MS Office, for example. A lot of people still need to play DRM protected content. A lot of people still play games with anti-cheat. A lot of people still have printers which don’t work correctly under Linux.

      Meanwhile Windows literally has zero issues. For many years now. Or MacOS. Linux will never be ready, because being ready is a moving target.

      What should happen is simple: one single distro, all proprietary tech included by default, kernel ABI frozen for a reasonably long time, and user land should have backwards compatibility for at least five years.

      • fulano
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        1 year ago

        Lost it on “Windows with literally 0 issues” lol