The best one I’ve ever heard is they like the Microsoft wallpapers. Yes i told them you can use them on linux too. But they argued with me that they wouldn’t be compatible.
Some years ago, mentioning Linux for daily non-gaming use:
Guy: “Installing Linux is complicated though”
Me: “It wasn’t bad 10 years ago, and now it’s as hard as clicking Next a few times, even faster than Windows”
Guy: “Well duh, you have ten years of experience installing it!”
Difficult to argue with this non-logic.
My almost 70yr old mother installed mint herself. Her tech literacy level is Word Processing with a dash of Solitaire.
Why you out there telling people to install it? Those who want it will find it. This isn’t an evangelical mission.
Isn’t it?
The arguments of preference and convenience are falling by the wayside as megacorporations take more and more control over not just your hardware but your behavioral patterns by dictating what you can install and how it functions. They suck up all your personal, private data for AI training without your consent.
I get it, shit sucks. It really does, but we have to remember who is to blame here and it’s not each other. There has to be some urgency here because this is a battle and we, the consumers, the ordinary people, are surely losing. It’s not about being holier than thou, it’s about lifting each other up.
If Linux gets popular the mega corps will just follow them there and then you’ll be asking them to uninstall Dell os or at least remove the Linux recall (powered by bing) that it comes bundled with. Just look at the modern state of android.
Android is the way it is because Google is close sourcing more and more of what makes Android useful as a mobile OS. It would be infinitely harder for some megacorp to do the same thing for a desktop OS.
In my experience, there are no silly reasons. Most people tend to stick to what they’re familiar with and not to experiment. And that is just fine.
On the other hand there are also other people eager to learn something new. Take your time and invest your energy in them. Show them around. It is a win:win.
On the other hand, there are people wasting our time (relatives) and have no data in the machine which is a glorified browser.
For them I installed Linux mint, left a 200x200 Firefox icon on the desktop (which they already used) and called it a day.
If they accidentally hit the mute button on the YouTube page, that was going to happen regardless and I’ll get to it when I get to it next time I visit (if I have time). It’s kind of amazing how they can resolve it themselves when you don’t solve the issue for them quickly.
Edit: my point was: their desire for no change does not come before my desire to have an up to date secure OS for them to use (even of it’s just YT browsing)
