Maybe it’s because the survey respondent hasn’t used an OS worth recommending.
I have been using Linux for 30 years. Never recommend anything to anyone. It’s their decision to make. I will answer questions if asked but I try and be conservative. Lots of people don’t need computers and would be better off without them or only need something simple to do their jobs or play games. Also my experience doesn’t translate to normies. Inlaw was asking around for laptop recommendations and I just shut my trap. They can buy a Mac or a box store Windows laptop and it will do the job and I won’t be on the hook for support.
I am not a preacher and Linux is not a religion. It is an effective tool for technically minded people to get shit done. Nothing more. If companies want to turn it into a product and an experience like Valve or Google then it will end up in more or less polished consumer ready products but that is nothing to do with why I use it.
I only suggest it when someone is complaining about windows.
Exactly.
It’s not “randomly recommending an operating system”
It’s noticing when people have problems, and providing a solution.
Talked about Linux so much my 14 year old niece installed Fedora by herself on her computer and loves it.
Uncle goals
That’s quite different from what I learned from my uncles growing up…
This is how you pour a beer!
If I were still drinking, I’d have tought mine both skills.
Drunken linux installs are always the best. It’s the side effect of installing gentoo while drinking some wine.
That’s how we got a Mars Rover clone on a FedEx box
Just buy her a MacBook if you want to be a good uncle
No thanks, I endeavor to pass on independent life skills, not dependent ones.
People who understand computers use macOS exclusively
Linux is not good outside server or embedded applications
You should join the 21st century. That is a very outdated notion.
Apple have only been clearly the best the last 5 years
Best at what exactly?
Extraction of wealth from the lower classes
I found the Lemmy Daring Fireball account.
Hope you are justo trolling
Hahahahahahahaha…dude…hahaha
Bless your heart
LOL
I’m willing to recommend Windows 10 to someone who considers “upgrading” to Windows 11.
Since Linux transformed my 8gb Lenovo 11th gen laptop from e-waste to daily use I became like a jw, I need to convert everyone
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No matter how bad the content is, I don’t think anything deserves the terrible fate of being put on Facebook.
Fucking hilarious because just recommended Linux to a customer over the phone. This 100% spot on.
I tend not to recommended Linux to anyone because I always end up their tech support.
Quite. Oh you are using Windows? Sorry, I don’t know anything about that.
That’s an improvement over always being the dedicated tech support anyway, no matter how often you explain to them that you have not bothered to take a look at Windows and all its specific issues for a decade or more…
And then I get called in to diagnose why they’re locked out of their Facebook account…
My friends want me to shut the fuck up
Have you heard of the gospel of our lord and savior, Linus torvalds? Do you have a minute to discuss salvation from the eternal fires of surveillance capitalism? /j
Bro we get that you’re joking.
someone recommended to me the other day to try FreeBSD. After spending multiple hours this morning trying to get the Wifi to work I now want to punch them in the throat.
Ethernet/phone tethering works like a charm though.
Don’t forget to see if SMT is enabled… Good chance it is not. Had a buddy go down that rabbit hole earlier today playing around with various BSD flavors.
Honestly, OpenBSD often works better out of the box on laptops and workstations.
No ZFS in the box though.
Try Zorin. Very easy transition from Windows.
I’m already on NixOS and have been on linux for a few years now. I just wanted to try something a bit different.
It’s an unspoken rule: if you’re a Linux user, you’re obligated to mention it in every conversation, even if it’s not about Linux. I use Debian, btw. :3
Yes darling, we may have a cocktail; but may I suggest rather than a gin tonic we take a mojito? It’s made with mint, which is also the name of a Linux distribution.
It’s so hot outside, I wish I could go to Antarctica to cool off with penguins… Did you know Linux logo is a penguin?
Smooth, like the way she left.
No one I know but me even owns a computer to install it on.
Wait, hol’up, please tell me it’s because of some socioeconomic reason, not because everyone around you just defaults to phones and tablets. Please.
The… second one.
Entire fam and friend circle is okay with paying for things. They have no sense of privacy to remove, and believe any alternative would be too conveluted for a bunch of mobile users to reliably depend on, and they’re complerely right.
With zero computer experience, there is no way out. The learning curve is a sheer cliff.
Nothing, not even TOR or i2p would help, their entire OS is backdoored, as is anyone’s on stock software.
When I moved from the Midwest to Los Angeles, CA c. 2013 it was a bit of a culture shock to learn that almost no one had a computer.
I still don’t know anyone who owns one that doesn’t have to work with one.
And it is totally about phones and tablets. I don’t even think the kids learn to type in schools anymore.
