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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

My brother is 12 and just like other people of his age he can't use a computer properly because he is only familiar with mobile devices and dumbed-down computers

I recently dual-booted Fedora KDE and Windows 10 on his laptop. Showed him Discovery and told him, "This is the app store. Everything you'll ever need is here, and if you can't find something just tell me and I'll add it there". I also set up bottles telling him "Your non-steam games are here". He installed Steam and other apps himself

I guess he is a better Linux user than Linus Sebastian since he installed Steam without breaking his OS...

The tech support questions and stuff like "Can you install this for me?" or "Is this a virus?" dropped to zero. He only asks me things like "What was the name of PowerPoint for Linux" once in a while

After a week I have hardly ever seen my brother use Windows. He says Fedora is "like iOS" and he absolutely loved it

I use Arch and he keeps telling me "Why are you doing that nerdy terminal stuff just use Fedora". He also keeps explaining to me why Fedora better than my "nerd OS"

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[-] [email protected] 217 points 11 months ago

I absolutely lost it the first time he called me a nerd for using Arch and straight up started doing Fedora elitism lmao

[-] vulnerability 90 points 11 months ago

Time to become a toxic arch elitist user now.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Time to replace Fedora with Gentoo.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

What your brother sees in Arch: Oh no another driver update, let me write a paragraph in computer language

[-] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

AHAHAH that is so cute

[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

"Btw i use fedora"

this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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