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The real problem is people refusing to learn a new workflow. Which is why anyone would need Windows and dualbooting. Yes you can't tun every software on Linux that you can on Windows and vise versa; which is the whole damn point. There is software which lets you do the same thing just in a different way - but no one wants to explore the option, if it doesn't look and work exactly the same, people run away.
I play on Linux. I can count on one hand what games won't launch. One of them was my main game and their decision to drop Linux off a cliff last year has just grown my hatred for them and Microsoft, which I think is a much healthier and normal response than to submissively bend-over backwards and rush to install Windows which is exactly what they were counting on like we're some kind of sheep; like all the dual booters out there licking boots.
You know most people play games as a fun leisure activity. Telling them that they need to do a ton of work just to participate is going to be a hard sell except to a relatively small group of people. That is a large factor in why so many people buy consoles.
Not to be a contrarian, but this notion that what people need is a frictionless existence, and anything but. Could and should not be expected. Has already led us to a situation were the new generations, in the first time in history, are dumber an less technologically adept.
We need to change this idea. And start asking people to put in some effort.
You have missed my point. People are already putting in effort at their jobs. When they do get time to relax they don't want to be required to do a second job.
If this was a car community you would be telling me that everyone needs to know how to do their own oil changes. If this was a baking community you would say everyone needs to make their own bread. A gardening community would say growing vegetables.
These can be valuable and rewarding skills, but just because it is important to you doesn't mean it should be required of everyone.
Haven't you seen the folks on linkedin? They are bragging about letting AI do their job.(Im not talking about the manual labourers and such.) Just today I learned that doctors using AI to identify cancer are getting worse at identifying it themselves. And yes you should know how to change your oil, bake your own bread and grow your own vegetables. You should also know why the sunset is red and that snails don't die from eating poisous mushrooms because a liver is required to metabolise it.
You do know that there is more than one other person on the internet?
Yeah, you are a hero who knows it all, gotcha.
Oh no, I have to tinker a bit to play video games, the HORROR!
Being a contrarian doesnt mean you are correct by default.