Asklemmy

47958 readers

429 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Why people gave up using linux? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

177 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The only few reason I know so far is software availability, like adobe software, and Microsoft suite. Is there more of major reasons that I missed?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Some of those that don't find it intimidating do find it tiring. I grew up using MSDOS and later Windows 3.1 when it came out. Most of what we did was in command line and having everything in a GUI is just a QOL upgrade you don't really want to come back from.
I've been using mint on my laptop for a few months now and it's great, but like you said there's still some things that require command line tinkering and I just don't have the energy for it.
It's the same reason I like console games, they just work. Don't get me wrong, the console modding scene is non-existent and any kind of customization is generally out of the question, but it just works, and it works the first time every time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tbh for some people there's no going back once you learn it. Navigating a GUI and clicking through several buttons vs having a nice shell with completions and whatnot like Fish and learning piping at some point just becomes faster, same thing as using modal editors.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Full agree on tiring. I work as an SRE, my job is administrating Linux machines (containers these days). When I need to use a computer, I just want it to work out of the box and Linux doesn't offer that yet. I don't want to spend time getting it to work