Many people here are using Linux desktop as their normal PC without any issues, for years. I have been happily gaming on it for about 8 years. You probably donāt know how Linux desktop is for an average user nowadays. Our retired parents are using it too.
What part about normal did you miss? The folks on lemmy are about as far from the average user as you get.
My kids use Linux. They are 5 and 7. They do just fine. They are ānormalāā¦ as in just beginner users.
The 5 year old only cares where Steam is, and where the games are in the menu.
The 7 year old is a master at it all already. Heās installing Minecraft mods all the timeā¦ downloading, unzipping the modsā¦ running java -jar XYZ from the terminalā¦ yeah I had to show him the first time, but TBH, I didnāt show it all to him. He read up on how it works and watched YouTube videos on it.
Itās all about what youāre used to and if youāre actually interested in learning the bits. Normal is what? Someone who treats the computer as an appliance? Yeahā¦ with those users as long as the machine actually worksā¦ they donāt care what the underlying OS isā¦ OSX? Windows 11? some Linux distro? Itās all the same to them. The computer is a magic machine that does things and they have no clue how or why.
Exactly!
Iām gonna get my 4 year old onboard as well, soon. Heās still too young, but slowly, he will grasp the basics.
Linux desktop nowadays is not a matter of having above average computer knowledge, itās a matter of habit. People/companies used Windows because they are used to it so it seems easy, but itās not actually easier than noob friendly Linux. As an illustration many of us made our children or parents use Linux, it shows how easy it is.
I know, I know, itās stupid easy unless you do something like buy an Nvidia card or use flatpack. I was dumb enough to use xdotool to get my track pad in unbusted, but dumb ass me had to use YDOTOOLš¤¦āāļø because Wayland!
You are getting downvoted, perhaps users donāt like to be called āun-normalā.
It is very clear that by normal you meant average.
Lemmy and Linux users should be intelligent enough to understand the context of your initial messageā¦
This particular user seems to be a corporate shill. I hope they are getting paid for their advocacy of the malware infested OS that steals private data of paid users. At least then they wouldnāt be dumb. This user is consistently arguing that piracy is theft in other threads but will go bat for corporations. Companies that have stolen a lot more from tax money, environment, wage theft, lobbying politicians to artificially stiffle competition, lying to congress about data theft, etc.
Edit: I meant LemmyIsFantastic not you
