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I'm Not a Programmer, but Here’s Why Linux Is My Daily Driver (www.howtogeek.com)

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Linux doesn’t demand technical aptitude or computer science knowledge for normal day-to-day use cases.

Bullshit.

Tell me how to turn off the print monitor in Mint? (Guess what, it requires a command line, in the 21st century!)

How to get a Logitech wireless mouse to work? (in windows, they just work, no software required, since Win95).

The average person has no idea how to do this stuff.

It the above statement were true, why do they have to write an article trying to convince people?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

I have no idea what turning the print monitor off means in either Windows or Linux, I use my Logitech wireless mouse on Linux by plugging in the USB receiver and never thinking about it again, I use my Xbox controller by hitting the Pair button and clicking the Bluetooth icon on my desktop

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Seems like you used a Linux long time ago. Or, a "libre" distro without drivers, and you went on trying to use hardware that wasn't ~1 year old or more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

So I have no idea what you are talking about and I've been on Linux for a long time. There are legitimate issues but I have no idea what issues you are talking about. Mice have worked on Linux since it got support for GUI apps and desktops which was back in the 90s. I don't know what a print monitor is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You'll always get downvotes for this from Linux apologists who didn't have the exact problems you're describing, but you're 100% right. There are loads of things you might reasonably want to do in Linux that require a command line, or just don't work well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hello, yes, I'd like to use my fingerprint sensor please.

[–] jelloeater85 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, those have always been tricky to get working right. I just don't bother.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I mean it's probably computers in general. The amount of Windows support requests I get from relatives.... They also don't get how to fix file associations, their printer stopped working for the second time in a year or they clicked on "update" and now they're on Win 11 and having massive issues with it. I'd say computers are just difficult to deal with, sometimes... Maybe an iPhone has lower maintenance. But I don't think it has anything to do with Linux. Some people refuse to acknowledge that. I've used both. And a Logitech mouse definitely works.