Personally I haven’t. While Linux is imperfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward. And with it’s whole complexity, I find Linux more user friendly than Windows. Even driver issues, broken shadow file ownership and KDE specifics only made me more confident about my choice to use Linux after I solved everything.

OQB @pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.works

    • Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      51·
      1 month ago

      People who make suggestions like this are missing the point.

      Most people want their device and the programs on it to just work.

      Not everyone needs to or wants to code every time they’re faced with a minor inconvenience.

      I say this as someone who likes to tinker and code.

    • fruitcantfly@programming.dev
      31·
      1 month ago

      There is very little stopping you.

      You mean besides the huge time investment required to get to the point where you can meaningfully contribute?

        • fruitcantfly@programming.dev
          21·
          1 month ago

          Time investment is a barrier to entry.

          I say this as somebody who has already made the time investment required to learn how to program, and as somebody who keeps investing time to maintain and to improve their skills in that area. Expecting the average Linux user to do the same is ridiculous.

          Have you made that investment?

            • fruitcantfly@programming.dev
              2·
              1 month ago

              Let me remind you that you wrote that,

              People complain at something not working are missing the point.

              It’s open source. You spot something you don’t like, change it.

              Learn to code, contribute, fix things.

              There is very little stopping you.

              Do you think that you can fix something not working by writing documentation? Or do you think that you can fix something not working by testing? Or do you think that you can fix something not working by investing in visual elements? And so on and so forth.

              No. Obviously not. If you want to fix something not working, then you have to get your hands dirty with the source code