A few hiccups here and there, but I think of it like growing pains that will eventually go away.

Yeah, once you learn the Linux way of doing things or the KDE way of doing something, after some time, it’ll just be old hat. Just like how it was learning the Windows or MacOS way of doing things.

That same user, Oh I need MacOS so I can edit pictures of my kids. I’ll have to buy all new hardware, $2000 dollars for a MacBook no problem. When they try Linux, What the heck, everything works except my cheap Wifi card. This is unacceptable, all of Linux has failed and is completely unusable by 100% of the computing world. Buying a 20 dollar USB dongle that is Linux compatible is completely out of the question for them.

It’s great that there is overlap in hardware support between the three Oses, but lets not lose perspective. Imagine a Windows user complaining that MacOS had failed because MacOS doesn’t have full support for all the hardware in their Windows machine. Or vice versa.

If what you want is Windows. Just use windows. For the few times I’ve had to use Windows over the decades, while frustrating and laborious, I don’t expect it to be like my Linux distro. If a Linux distro has the features, utility, software, or ease of use you want. Then by all means, buy a Linux compatible machine. Most distro’s install in 5-10 minutes or buy a prebuilt Linux machine. Nobody expects MacOS to be Windows or Windows to be MacOS. And why would you? Just use the OS you need. Imagine expecting MacOS to be a “free Windows clone”. I’m sure the MacOS users would be screaming bloody murder if Apple thought that was a good idea.

Get out of here. “Everyone”??? Well then, “everyone” can put their effort and their money behind the solution they want. Nobody is stopping them. If they do nothing, then they made their choice. That’s how FOSS works. If other people are paying and doing the work, while you and “everyone” does nothing, you have no room to complain.

“Everybody’s adopting other solutions. Our idea must be bad. Let’s consider other other solutions and decide if we want to continue with our current implementation.” /FTFY

I’m ded.

That’s actually a great feature. Not suggested near enough. Unfortunately, as easy as it is, it’s still well above the average user who just wants to open a browser and check their web page. I think average users need to be encouraged to just get help from a friend or a LUG, just like the late 90’s and early 2000’s for Windows.

That’s how FOSS works. Good ideas get adopted, bad ideas lose adoption. Even I dropped Gnome because of their bike shedding. This is the way.

You got me. Average FOSS user here. Be the change you want to see or make the changes you want to see. Stop whining and complaining. Pretty simple.

You have the opportunity to be the change you want to see or make the change you want to see. Whining and crying about it doesn’t help anybody. It’s time you learned that.

Sounds like a good opportunity to add the features in the way you see fit.

If’s FOSS, don’t cry about it, implement the feature the way you think is best; just like every one else.

haha, I’ve told people to just google around for over a decade now. Sounds like that’s bad advice now. Is Geek Squad still a thing?

yeah, when I had a Win2k or XP machine to play video games, I would run into issues all the time. Fix Windows on my machine helped me fix other people machines. After a more than a decade of not fixing a Windows machine, best I can do is google around. Same thing they can do.

LMAO, back in my Slackware days (3.4, 3.6, 4.0, 7.0), If I had to build from source, which was most things, step1: ./configure step2: install the missing package step3: goto step1 until no missing packages identified step4: make step5: make install

Sometimes my packages were too old, So I would just go to step1 for each package that also needed to be newer. I’m not even a Linux Expert, and I definitely wasn’t a Linux Expert then. All the building from source helps me jump into software projects and become productive real quick though.

Exactly, it’s just people finding an excuse to complain about. It’s more like an extension of the Unix wars or the editor wars or the browser wars. People have to find a reason to justify their choice.

It’s LTS only. If you moved off of LTS, you wont’s see it again.

It’s only LTS. Desktop users rarely use LTS. Great to have live kernel updates on a developer workstation and servers though.

If you have pro enabled on an LTS version of Ubuntu, then you get live security updates, too include the kernel, as well as security updates for 10 years. Handy for developer workstations though. These people are whining and crying when desktop users rarely use the LTS version.

That’s awesome. This is why Linux is king. The Linux inertia is building.