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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Month and a half into using Mint Cinnamon... frankly it's hard to feel like I'm not still using Win10. What comes to mind immediately is that file management dialogs in apps are less consistent with how the file manager itself works, whereas in Windows it's all more uniform. But IMO that's very minor. Overall UX feels the same to me.

Note: I am not a computer gamer so can't comment on how games work on Linux, and also I've used Ubuntu and BSD in the past. Just had Windows at home to be consistent with work. I retired several years ago and it still took me this long to switch over.

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I switched 15 years ago. It was ready then. It is ready now. I was in my teens and have used it ever since.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (13 children)

Most people's measure of whether it's ready is "How soon until I have to type into a console to get something done".

If it's within the first three months - then it's not ready.

[–] Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

By that definition Windows 11 isn't ready for people too. You'll need the command line at installation to circumvent the mandatory MS account requirement.

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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

Fits but hurts. Like Linux is ready now

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (11 children)

So long as you need a terminal to do anything on a Linux machine it's not gonna get any mainstream appeal, most people can barely install a app on windows where they just have to click next a few times. Also if the laptop you buy comes pre-installed with windows what would motivate a regular joe to go out of his way to install Linux on it and risk messing things up by making a mistake. Also people don't want to replace their windows only software and gaming is another reason to stick to windows for now. I'd rather use Linux, but I'll wait till Steam has made most games compatible with Linux, and Nvidia and Amd give proper driver support for linux

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dude tbh I had to install chrome on a friends laptop last week (not because he couldn't, just because we needed it and I happened to be the one on the keys), and I legit couldn't do it for a sec. I had to go to google, google "google chrome," get the DL page, dl, run installer, etc.

I literally said "goddammit why can't I just type 'flatpak install google chrome' in the terminal?!" (Would have gone with apt/dnf, but I wouldn't know his sudo password, though he could have just entered it had it been needed).

I can barely install an app on windows (anymore), and I think linux is actually easier as long as you don't have to compile from source. Less likely to get Gogle-Chorme.exe too..

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah when are comfortable typing commands it's obviously much easier to just pull up the terminal and do that and since dependencies are shared between applications in Linux it prevents your drive from becoming bloated and it's so much easier to update everything using a few commands, but most people are not comfortable typing even basic words let alone commands, every time I've seen my manager who apparently used to be a programmer once, struggle to type a sentence making spelling mistakes in ever word, I'm glad he doesn't code anymore, cause most of the time when he runs a command he makes some mistake and screws things up and then I have to fix it.

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Also if the laptop you buy comes pre-installed with windows what would motivate a regular joe to go out of his way to install Linux on it and risk messing things up by making a mistake.

Being able to boot to a flash drive to make sure it will work?

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