I canāt imagine walking around and just assuming everything is a magic black box and not have the slightest curiosity about how something works.
Believe it or not, not everyone is intersted in tech. Most people just live out their lives oblivious to how stuff works.
Like me for example, I have almost 0 interest in medicine. The human body is not exactly a black box to me, but I donāt usually remember deseases names and stuff like that, even though some people remember all those things without putting too much effort into it.
Medical stuff is not comparable to OS that you use on a daily basis. Everything just boils down that Windows was pre installed on such a huge amount of machines that āyou have to be tech savvyā or whatever to use Linux. And the fact that no one wants to install anything that wasnāt installed the first time, makes it that much harder to switch to Linux. But I believe that we all are slowly spreading the word of Linux more and more with each year. We definitely will have a year of Linux for sure (eventually).
Everything just boils down that Windows was pre installed on such a huge amount of machines that āyou have to be tech savvyā or whatever to use Linux.
Yes, I would agree that having Windows preinstalled on almost every brand name PC/laptop there is out there is the main reason why things are what they are.
But, Iād also argue that, from your everyday userās stand point, Windows is a lot easier to get office work done. Everything is pretty much GUI based, there is no terminal in Windows (cmd and PowerShell are not the terminal, you canāt do everything you can in a GUI in the cmd or in PowerShell, and vice versa, so itās not the same), so from a regular userās perspective, things are simpler.
And the fact that no one wants to install anything that wasnāt installed the first time, makes it that much harder to switch to Linux.
Why bother changing something that works and gets the job done š¤·ā¦ plus, they gotta learn new things if they did that, why make their lives harder.
Not everyone cares about libre softwareā¦ or even know it exists.
But I believe that we all are slowly spreading the word of Linux more and more with each year. We definitely will have a year of Linux for sure (eventually).
If this does happen, this wonāt be within a year, it will be within several years (or a decade).
But, I do agree that there are changes in a positive direction. Most software products (slosed source ones) now have at least a Debian/Ubuntu .deb package (which wasnāt the case 10 years ago, which wasnāt that long ago) and even do customer support for Linux (but only limited to that particular flavor of Linux which they provide the packages forā¦ not an ideal scenario, but itās not bad either).
So, yeah, Iām optimistic, but not too much. It might eventually happen, but not in the near future IMO.
Except for the fact, that you do that to plenty of other disciplines of life. It is simply that some people need a computer to work, they donāt need one as a hobby. They donāt want to ālearn a new thingā they want their machine to output some calculations in excel. Same as you donāt learn woodworking when ordering a table from Ikea, or learning medicine when going to a checkup.
Same as you donāt learn woodworking when ordering a table from Ikea, or learning medicine when going to a checkup.
Maybe Iām different than most, but I DO wonder how that table is made, and I do try to educate myself on how the medicines I take actually work. Thereās been times Iāve wasted almost an entire day binging Wikipedia.
Iām not saying I have in depth knowledge of fields outside my own, but I do make an attempt. Like, Iām not a gearhead at all, and I only care about cars being able to take me to work and back. But I do know how internal combustion works, and I have a general understanding of the components of an engine.
Youāre an inqusitive mind (so am I) and there is nothing wrong with that.
But, do understand that most people arenāt. Either because they didnāt have proper guidance when they were young or just have no interest in involving themselves in new things, doesnāt really matter, the fact is that, yes, most people donāt really care how stuff works.
You might surround yourself with people that are like you, so you donāt see the other ones. Trust me when I say this, most people are not like you. Iād say about 5 to 10% of people are like you, thatās it.
A day on wikipedia doesnāt get you āinstalled linux and is actively using it at workā level of knowledge. For cars, the better analogy would be āI can replace the transmission in my carā. Everyone knows how ācomputers workā. Not a lot of people know how to install a different OS.
