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And somehow every single time the problem was so easy to solve, but apparently crying about it is the better solution.
Then ask why no one has patched this well-known bug after all these years, and get flooded with ‘anyone can contribute’ comments.
I just watched that Linus tech tips video where the guy uninstalls critical system components by accident while trying to install steam.
First the GUI for the package manager refuses to do it, then apt gives him a warning that he's going to break his system. It even makes him type "Yes, do what I say!" but he's too much of a clown to read the warning messages all over his screen. He even smirks at the camera about how silly it is that he would need to type such a thing before he proceeds to mess everything up.
People were trying to defend him, saying that the system shouldn't have allowed him to do it or that the warnings should have been flashing and shooting rainbows out of the monitor or that a robot arm should have come out and started honking his clown nose to let him know he was doing something stupid.
Why switch to second person in the last panel?
Because I wrote this while in class.
I used to do some linux training for new hires at my old job. The company had a training room with a rack of servers for lab work.
It was a training on how to deploy the product on a customer server. I personally wrote the instructions and tested them on the lab machines after a fresh install.
I had others test the lab instructions. I even had people from non-tech roles verify that they too could do the labs by following the instructions.
Still I get a guy in the training complaining that "this doesn't work" and I can see from the error on his screen that he must have skipped one of the steps in the lab instructions.
He's not even trying to figure it out. Even though others are finishing, he just decided that it doesn't work and gave up.
So many times I see junior Devs (or not so juniors) and normies seeing an error message and, visibly, static plays between their ears on their mental TV set, then they just click the first button that looks appropriate and complain it didn't work.
The text of the message does not get read or parsed.
"You need to close the program to continue". Doesn't work.
"Unexpected X at line N" Doesn't work.
Drives me insane.
Honestly best way to solve problems
I've been in the comments section once or twice. The solution was "RTFM."
RTFM in this case means: Read the fucking man-page
Sometimes I get confused with man pages and have to go on other sites with different explanations and examples. Maybe that's just me
No, that's the state of documentation on Linux.
In OpenBSD, bad or lacking documentation is treated as a release-critical bug in the package.
The good old ways. I miss them.
Nowadays, it’s more "User Manual? You mean the Manufacturer’s Opinion?"
Been there done that...
Sure, this applies most of the time. My big rendering workstation and Asus laptop run Mint so flawlessly, I was kicking myself for not trying this sooner. My brand new Dell G16 7630 has been a special kind of hell with over two months of forum diving. The keyboard backlight is being a crackhead. The video drivers are a chaotic mess that I'm wary of updating lest my machine completely freezes/bricks for the ~20th time, necessitating a Timeshift.
So, yeah, Linux is great, but that is not everyone's experience. For me, it's only fully usable 66% of the time. I'm still going at it, but those are shitty numbers. We FOSS evangelists need to acknowledge that usability, end-user support, and compatibility are an utter shitshow for the average schmuck. Also, this meme is glowing radioactive evidence of the toxicity undermining the FOSS movement.
When we start taking ownership of all that AND fixing the experience, then we can finally have the Year of Linux on the Desktop. Or we can sit here, say "hurr durr, look at stupid end-user," and wonder why normies refuse to switch to Linux.
I started using Linux for real this year and your comment couldn't be more right. Linux community thinks that what is 'easy' for them is easy for everyone. "Just go into the terminal and type X" you just lost 95% of Windows users, specially when that command fails because of permissions. Same think happens kn Windows and the person just needs to click allow in that modal. Linux isn't easy enough yet, but it could be, but first we need to stop denying this problem.
I gave up on switching to linux after losing 2 entire evenings setting it up (linux mint) just for my games not to run and not a single solution I could find working.
I'll give it another try once I buy my new PC and set that up, but Linux is not as plug and play as windows and I totally understand that non-IT people want to stay away from it now. The community makes it sound as if everything is almost out of the box simple but that is not the case at all.
Don't give up before you have tried using memes to get support!
The only way to actually get support with linux issues huh 😂
Your plan sounds good, then you can take your time working on the old PC and re-install as needed, especially because the newer windows versions are happy to kill a dual booted Linux.
Thanks, here's to hoping it works out
This is just a variant of the "Ask question, use an alt acc to answer it incorrectly" method of getting help.
Harness the OCD of the internet (https://xkcd.com/386/)
Truth is, windows has plenty of such small annoyances just as well, it's just that everyone is used to the windows way of doing it, so it's not even worth joking about it.
People just don't want to have fewer annoyances that are solved differently and most often more easily. Change bad.