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    Linux is too hard (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
    submitted 1 week ago by Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    The indoctrination of windows is extreme. Windows is just as hard as linux, harder even with all the layers of obscurity.

    And yet... linux is hard, and users decry RTFM as "not growing the userbase"

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    [–] Limonene@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Windows is just as hard as linux, harder even with all the layers of obscurity.

    Windows used to be easy. Now, it's so obscure and locked down that only Microsoft can maintain your computer. And they maintain it for their own benefit, at your expense, with mandatory ads and lockouts.

    [–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    I disagree about how it used to be easy. And agree with everything else.

    Ive used Windows since the 3.1 days (MSDOS as well?). Its never been "easy". You just learn the magic spells on how to fix a printer, get the right drivers installed in JUST the right way, or which hardware magically doesn't work for some reason and avoid it.

    With Linux, at least we get good logs most of the time.

    [–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

    i remember my first family pc was a tandy sensation which had it's own built in ui - winmate - because windows 3.1 program manager was so frustrating.

    [–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    As a kid using XP, never had a single issue.

    [–] jim3692@discuss.online 1 points 1 week ago

    As a kid helping his family's XP and 7 computers, I had faced plenty of issues.

    My favorites:

    • One computer (I think XP) didn't use the correct resolution on Intel's driver, and needed Windows's fallback driver
    • One computer (I think 7) required Windows's fallback driver for audio, and Windows Update was installing VIA's or Realtek's drivers