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[–] pachrist 2 points 1 year ago

Good God that was infuriating. Watching the prompt pop up when he was installing Steam or whatever asking him to confirm if he really wanted to remove the GUI was awful. He just said yes and felt like Linux was the issue. Nope.

In the years I have spent IT adjacent, the primary difference I have noticed between Windows and Linux has nothing to do with drivers, OS, UI, or anything like that. It's that Windows has long conditioned users to hit OK on anything that pops up. Linux expects you to read it and make a choice, and it's usually not that difficult of a choice. Linus pulled up a web page, blindly followed instructions without reading, and borked his install. Predictable. It's the same behavior that gives grandma a computer virus.