How about a few million school kids on chrome books. My 6YO is AOK.
Can you open a web browser? Done, Ship it.
My Parents and my Ex were fine on it 20 years ago. (given back then I HAD to do the setup)
The only problem they ever had was when my mother bought bargain bin CD full of shareware and I said no, that’s not going to work. She shrugged and I pointed her to some online solitare games.
Then they’re better off with a Chromebook or tablet. The only reason to be on a pc instead is to access all of the additional functions that would be a nightmare for them to figure out on Linux.
The vast majority of people don’t need to be on a PC.
I’d argue that steam on Linux PC for casual gaming is pretty ready mainstream. Video drivers just work in anything that support non-free, Gui steam Install, the only thing you need to know is to check proton on each Windows Game you want to run. If they’d turn that on by default they’d be fine for light PC gaming.
I was pretty shocked the last few times I did a setup for someone and it needed nothing.
Hell, even NixOS works out of the box, that’s just nuts.
You’re arguing with a person that says that Linux sucks, yet also says that people should use a Linux PC because ChromeOS is a Gentoo-derived Linux distribution. That person is obviously trolling at this point.
If you go back and read through his history, I don’t think that’s the case.
He does have a bunch of spicy takes on things but he also has some reasonably based takes on a lot of stuff too.
The old I use Linux for everything but they do everything the worst possible way is a very established hill. Specifically going after cli gsettings change later in the conversation makes me think you probably actually is using at least Ubuntu/Gnome for something and felt frustrated by it.
Not knowing Windows 11 time and date settings makes me think he’s not a current Windows user. I remember you could turn date on and off in the windows tray, but I think that was actually quite a long time ago.
Could be just a random troll, could be one of those gatekeepers.
Even if they are a troll someone else is going to come along and read the conversation and it could cause them to go yeah Lennox just isn’t ready. It’s worth at least saying piss off It actually is even if they’re just trolling because someone who isn’t will read it.
How about a few million school kids on chrome books. My 6YO is AOK.
Can you open a web browser? Done, Ship it.
My Parents and my Ex were fine on it 20 years ago. (given back then I HAD to do the setup)
The only problem they ever had was when my mother bought bargain bin CD full of shareware and I said no, that’s not going to work. She shrugged and I pointed her to some online solitare games.
Then they’re better off with a Chromebook or tablet. The only reason to be on a pc instead is to access all of the additional functions that would be a nightmare for them to figure out on Linux.
The vast majority of people don’t need to be on a PC.
I’d argue that steam on Linux PC for casual gaming is pretty ready mainstream. Video drivers just work in anything that support non-free, Gui steam Install, the only thing you need to know is to check proton on each Windows Game you want to run. If they’d turn that on by default they’d be fine for light PC gaming.
I was pretty shocked the last few times I did a setup for someone and it needed nothing.
Hell, even NixOS works out of the box, that’s just nuts.
You’re arguing with a person that says that Linux sucks, yet also says that people should use a Linux PC because ChromeOS is a Gentoo-derived Linux distribution. That person is obviously trolling at this point.
If you go back and read through his history, I don’t think that’s the case.
He does have a bunch of spicy takes on things but he also has some reasonably based takes on a lot of stuff too.
The old I use Linux for everything but they do everything the worst possible way is a very established hill. Specifically going after cli gsettings change later in the conversation makes me think you probably actually is using at least Ubuntu/Gnome for something and felt frustrated by it.
Not knowing Windows 11 time and date settings makes me think he’s not a current Windows user. I remember you could turn date on and off in the windows tray, but I think that was actually quite a long time ago.
Could be just a random troll, could be one of those gatekeepers.
Even if they are a troll someone else is going to come along and read the conversation and it could cause them to go yeah Lennox just isn’t ready. It’s worth at least saying piss off It actually is even if they’re just trolling because someone who isn’t will read it.