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Windows VS Linux (part 2) (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've been a Linux user on and off since 1996, and there are still times when I give up trying to install software because of cryptic error messages.

Yes, I had my parents using Linux Mint for about 5 years, but eventually my brother who lived near them switched them to Windows because if there was a problem with Linux he couldn't help.

Don't worry, this is definitely the year of the Linux desktop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Perhaps its just gotten better, but I've been on it for a year or two now, and I haven't come across an error message that didn't bring up solutions when copy/pasted into google. Definitely varies by distro though, I was on EndeavourOS for most of that time, and being Arch, it has like infinite documentation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I haven't come across an error message that didn't bring up solutions when copy/pasted into google.

Yeah that's more effort than like 95% of people out there can exert.

Thinking about googling a computer problem is what separates the sheep from the goats.