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

submitted 14 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] 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The irony being that some Linux users fear change (or at least fight it tooth and nail) more than any other computer user.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago

unix is about doing one thing and doing it well, which is why systemd, baaad

...what do you mean ditch x11 in favor of wayland? no no, we need to preserve x11, the famous one-thing-well-doer

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I was a windows fanboy for more than 20 years. Going back every couple of months feels strange. Windows has changed, feels intrusive and uncandid to me. Linux is still new and sometimes a little strange to me, I miss my perfectly customized music player but apart from that, it's so much fun to use. I can't ever go back. Looking at Windows-user struggling makes me unconformable because i know they will never experienced how using a free OS feels like. They are so used to smartphones and computers shoving stuff down their throats instead of being the best tool you can come up with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, what was that perfectly customized music player?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Foobar! I tweaked it for years to be as simple yet powerful as possible. It counted plays, the date when songs were added and last played, which is lost now. It had a beautiful waveform-view I miss every day. And it converted and renamed files exactly as I told it to. I found some workarounds, but nothing comes close. Rhythmbox is good but misses the waveform view. Other applications are beautiful but offer too much bells and whistles, I like it simple. Feel free to recommend stuff!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

i too merely flirted with linux for years until my windows me started boot looping and then i was forced off that fence 25ish years ago and has been the biggest reason i've been able to stay employed since then.

the video is right about the reasons why people don't want to switch and part of me wishes he used a sink or swim story like mine since the worst case scenario is trying to swim again later on when it comes to linux.