Maybe it’s because the survey respondent hasn’t used an OS worth recommending.
I have been using Linux for 30 years. Never recommend anything to anyone. It’s their decision to make. I will answer questions if asked but I try and be conservative. Lots of people don’t need computers and would be better off without them or only need something simple to do their jobs or play games. Also my experience doesn’t translate to normies. Inlaw was asking around for laptop recommendations and I just shut my trap. They can buy a Mac or a box store Windows laptop and it will do the job and I won’t be on the hook for support.
I am not a preacher and Linux is not a religion. It is an effective tool for technically minded people to get shit done. Nothing more. If companies want to turn it into a product and an experience like Valve or Google then it will end up in more or less polished consumer ready products but that is nothing to do with why I use it.
I only suggest it when someone is complaining about windows.
Exactly.
It’s not “randomly recommending an operating system”
It’s noticing when people have problems, and providing a solution.
Talked about Linux so much my 14 year old niece installed Fedora by herself on her computer and loves it.
Uncle goals
That’s quite different from what I learned from my uncles growing up…
This is how you pour a beer!
If I were still drinking, I’d have tought mine both skills.
Drunken linux installs are always the best. It’s the side effect of installing gentoo while drinking some wine.
That’s how we got a Mars Rover clone on a FedEx box
Just buy her a MacBook if you want to be a good uncle
No thanks, I endeavor to pass on independent life skills, not dependent ones.
People who understand computers use macOS exclusively
Linux is not good outside server or embedded applications
You should join the 21st century. That is a very outdated notion.
Apple have only been clearly the best the last 5 years
Best at what exactly?
Extraction of wealth from the lower classes
I found the Lemmy Daring Fireball account.
Hope you are justo trolling
LOL
Hahahahahahahaha…dude…hahaha
Bless your heart
I’m willing to recommend Windows 10 to someone who considers “upgrading” to Windows 11.
Since Linux transformed my 8gb Lenovo 11th gen laptop from e-waste to daily use I became like a jw, I need to convert everyone
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No matter how bad the content is, I don’t think anything deserves the terrible fate of being put on Facebook.
I tend not to recommended Linux to anyone because I always end up their tech support.
Quite. Oh you are using Windows? Sorry, I don’t know anything about that.
My friends want me to shut the fuck up
Have you heard of the gospel of our lord and savior, Linus torvalds? Do you have a minute to discuss salvation from the eternal fires of surveillance capitalism? /j
Bro we get that you’re joking.
someone recommended to me the other day to try FreeBSD. After spending multiple hours this morning trying to get the Wifi to work I now want to punch them in the throat.
Ethernet/phone tethering works like a charm though.
Don’t forget to see if SMT is enabled… Good chance it is not. Had a buddy go down that rabbit hole earlier today playing around with various BSD flavors.
Honestly, OpenBSD often works better out of the box on laptops and workstations.
No ZFS in the box though.
Try Zorin. Very easy transition from Windows.
I’m already on NixOS and have been on linux for a few years now. I just wanted to try something a bit different.
It’s an unspoken rule: if you’re a Linux user, you’re obligated to mention it in every conversation, even if it’s not about Linux. I use Debian, btw. :3
Yes darling, we may have a cocktail; but may I suggest rather than a gin tonic we take a mojito? It’s made with mint, which is also the name of a Linux distribution.
It’s so hot outside, I wish I could go to Antarctica to cool off with penguins… Did you know Linux logo is a penguin?
Smooth, like the way she left.
Fucking hilarious because just recommended Linux to a customer over the phone. This 100% spot on.
Somewhat related but does anyone know the backstory on the linuxsucks guy? He’s the sole poster in that community and has a massive rage boner for Linux but seems to know way too much about it?
Man, idk, but I think the guy is also the one running the Reddit community by the same name. The usernames are different, but the Reddit sidebar links to the Lemmy community and the description and rules are almost word for word.
Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but anyone who promotes telemetry as some sort of good thing and hates on makes it their life’s work to dissuade people from Linux is either someone with too much time of their hands or an op.
That was my suspicion too but sometimes people just have hate boners for things like an autistic fixation on hating something. A good example is that CPU benchmark website where the owner has a rock hard hate boner for AMD no matter how well they do. When they kicked the crap out of Intel they used every disingenuous reason to score it lower because Intel should always be better.
Brian Lunduke
as for info about him… eh, I’ll leave you to it.
Stallman?
