• Prethoryn Overmind@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    143
    arrow-down
    102
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Fuck Libre Office and Open Office.

    I really hate the, “we should all use Linux” mentality and I see it on here a lot. Let me tell someone who barely knows how to send a fucking file over the internet how to fix their broken repository that decided to randomly break during an Linux upgrade.

    Linux and Windows do different things in different ways that make sense in both ways for different reasons. Not everyone should hate Windows or vice versa, Linux, because this entire Lemmy community thinks it is superior in every way.

    I get pissed off by office as well but you know what it has some pretty damn good features. It works in the cloud it’s easy to sync across my decides.

    Windows updates break things but at least MS and Windows has a massive catalogue of fixes and ways to go back.

    I love Linux but holy mother of fucking God it is an absolute pain in the ass to fix when it breaks and you expect me to tell my Mom to understand that.

    No, we should not all be using Linux because Linux does not work for all models needing to be met. I hate to be that aggressive asshole but Jesus Christ I keep seeing this on Lemmy and it’s just a god damn stupid fucking statement. Oh and for fucks sake. If I see, “what kind of Linux system are you using that breaks.” Dammit, I have literally seen Linux break in the middle of a college classroom demonstration of just installing it and wouldn’t you know it just like Windows it isn’t perfect. Get off your high horse people. You don’t know something more than the average person because you use Linux or Windows or hell even Unix.

    • loutr@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      80
      arrow-down
      6
      ·
      1 year ago

      People who “barely knows how to send a fucking file over the internet” can’t fix shit on Windows either. I spent a lot more time fixing my mom’s Windows install than her Ubuntu.

      • Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        48
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        I spent a lot more time fixing my mom’s Windows install than her Ubuntu.

        Small anecdote, roughly in the same line as yours:

        As W7 was close to end of life, I asked my mum about it, as her laptop used W7. And after highlighting the privacy nightmare that W10 became, she decided to try Linux out. So I installed Mint in her machine. At the start she asked for help often, but the amount of “pls help” decreased over time. The last time that she asked for help was because she wanted to access “her computer” from her phone, just like I do with mine. (i.e. local network.)

        My neighbours though? I often get some spare change from them, by helping them out with their Windows machines. And they’re in the same level of tech expertise as my mum, you know, those folks who can download and install a program and not much else.

        So I believe that it reached a point where, in certain aspects, Linux is actually easier to use and maintain than Windows. Linux is still full of rough corners, unintuitive design and stupid shit, but at least it doesn’t get on your way on purpose because it benefits some business out there.

        • Zink@programming.dev
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          10
          ·
          1 year ago

          Linux Mint really impressed me when I decided to try it in a VM earlier this year (was already using fedora in VMs for build environments on a Windows company machine). It installs quickly, runs smoothly, and the updates have been painless.

          I like having a terminal open constantly, and learning about technical workings and power user features I may not have known about. However, for non-techie "email and web browsing” use, I would put it in front of my parents no problem. Right out of the box it even looks a bit like windows (cinnamon version, didn’t try others). It even has an “app store” like experience with the software package manager.

          If a power user has trouble because they’re used to configuring windows, they can probably learn how to do those settings on a user-friendly Linux distro.

          That does not mean it would work for everybody, and that does not mean it won’t break in frustrating ways. It was programmed by humans, after all.

    • subtext@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      52
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      I’m not gonna comment on the Linux portion because you seem quite passionate, but both Libre Office and Open Office are cross platform apps. So they’ll work just fine with your OneDrive / Dropbox / Backblaze / whatever to give you the wonderful fully cloud synced experience on either Windows or Linux.

    • Richard@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      24
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      Linux is just the kernel and infinitely superior to anything Microsoft has ever produced by itself. Stability and usability issues arise from the distribution that is being used, there are many that are tailored for the average consumer and that are just as simple to use as Windows. People like to forget it, but Android also uses the Linux kernel and is the most successful operating system in the world, with the amount of installed instances dwarfing the amount of Microsoft Windows installations.

    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      16
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Windows randomly decided to break for me many more times than Ubuntu did for my parents. Every time a sudden new update is pushed on the background, stalling anything I would be doing to a halt, it’s a roll of the dice if it will still function properly when it’s done.

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        8
        ·
        1 year ago

        Sure, and how easy was it to fix those issues?

        Usually it is nothing more than either reversing an update or waiting for the next update in Windows.

        While in Linux you’d have to re-import the correct repositories through command line and it might still not work, explain that to your parents.

        • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          9
          ·
          1 year ago

          How easy? Not at all. I’ve had to format the whole computer several times that reversing updates failed. At which point using Linux wouldn’t have been any harder.

        • Thoth19@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          1 year ago

          Poke about in registry, Google problems where the solutions are for the wrong version of windows, wade through driver problems, find that the issue is in a toggle that used to be easy to find in control panel but now is buried under layers of crap

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          7
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Usually it is nothing more than either reversing an update or waiting for the next update in Windows.

          …Waiting with a non-functional computer until the next update?.. Really?..

          While in Linux you’d have to re-import the correct repositories through command line and it might still not work, explain that to your parents.

          Why would a non-technical person ever need to use 3rd-party repos? Besides that, “reimporting” a repo is just adding 3-5 lines of text to a file, which can be done via gEdit, or, in most cases, through the settings in a distro’s package manager UI.

    • Thoth19@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yeah … No. Ubuntu is way more stable for me than win10. And much lazier to use. This argument was true ten years ago but Ubuntu and friends are really just install and click browser just like most people use Chromebooks

    • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      arrow-down
      6
      ·
      1 year ago

      I mean…if you’re installing Linux and having a “normie” use it, if they’re just using the GNOME Software Center or the dkstro’s equivalent…they’ll literally never have an issue.

    • DingoBilly@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      18
      arrow-down
      11
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yep… Moving to Lemmy it’s quite surprising how much of an echo chamber the Linux group has on here.

      It’s a good OS, but being honest Windows is likely better for almost everyone as it’s a lot simpler to understand with good support. Don’t have to worry about comparability as much or other things either.

      • kklusz@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        It’s such an echo chamber that you’ve gotten a number of downvotes just for providing your perspective here

        • Krauerking@lemy.lol
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Honestly, I’ve noticed that really only select communities really ever moved from reddit to Lemmy and it’s full of people who are sucking their own dick on superiority complex.

          A lot of this stuff (Linux requiring command line and root knowledge and Lemmy needing multiple instances to shuffle through) is just absolutely going to keep people, that I struggle to explain a URL to, from using any of this stuff.

          I get that they like the privacy and the control and all that of this but telling people to just get good and use this stuff is like a basketball star being confused when you say you struggle to get a point because you should just run up and dunk it. Missing some steps and skills.

    • parsiuk@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      What broken repository yiu talking about? My mum used Linux for over 10 years and she never saw Windows in her life. Email, YouTube, eBay… Never a problem. I can’t even imagine leaving her with Windows.

    • yumpoopsoup@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      On Lemmy I see people raving about Linux all the time like it’s the second coming of jesus it’s so annoying. Really fits the stereotype of Linux users always letting you know they use Linux