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Linux and the Fear of Change (a video for the normies in our lives) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 20 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Many of us are notorious fence-sitters. This video attempts to explore some of the psychology of our profound hesitation when switching operating systems. I will share my personal experience, talk about some of the fears we face when making big changes, offer some warm encouragement, and do it all without a whiff of the elitist technobabble that tends to rear its ugly head in Linux discussions.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Fear of change? Hahahahaha

No, I just know what's involved, with the unpredictable "gotcha" a year from now.

Not to mention the knowns. Holy hell switching from Windows to Linux is very problematic for typical end users. Yes, the UI is that different, even with "friendly" distros.

You say your grandma made the switch? OK, so someone who uses a browser for everything and doesn't actually use office.

Let's see Libre office open an excel spreadsheet with tables.

Or edit a word doc and send it back and have it not be screwed up.

Not migrating is practicing risk mitigation. Hell, I can't change a single setting on work systems without validating that change in the lab first. And you want people to switch entire operating systems. For what?

So stop this fear projection nonsense.

(And I work with Linux every day on multiple distros).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

Or edit a word doc and send it back and have it not be screwed up.

It will be screwed up.

And it's normal. Things get screwed up.

Thinking that abusive monopoly is better than things screwing up a bit here and there is just plain dystopian madness.

I'm so fucking tired of people around not caring about any deep issues, but suddenly becoming perfectionist in cases where that has been advertised to them as norm.