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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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I'm really surprised at how much people are ripping on Linux here at lemmy. It's completely justified, I agree that Linux still needs some polish in a few areas before it can REPLACE windows, but I would've figured lemmy to be a bit more... I dunno red pilled and biased towards Linux.
I daily Fedora for ALL my games pretty much, save for Metro Redux: Enhanced Edition and SteamVR titles. Games with anticheat that don't work on Linux? I don't play them anymore, if they don't wanna play ball that's fine.
I mean OP is trying to paint Linux as the more user friendly system and I think we can all agree that's BS.
Linux has many advantages. User Friendliness is not one of them
The Linux installer is more friendly towards installing your thing on your system. Windows seems to lack many things and don't even give you choice except for the install location.
But I wonder, if a stupid Windows forward installer is "user friendlier" than a Linux mint installer or Fedora one. I found the partition thing always confusing but on Linux you get automated and fluidly explained what you can do.
It can be, depends if you need proprietary software on a regular basis.
Or if you install one of the distros that have sane defaults for laymen.
Something like popOS is definitely more user friendly for regular use, it just has the usual limitations with ( insert random windows only software ), but that is another problem entirely.
noone is ripping on Linux, they are ripping on an angry shitposter
Linux already replaced windows for any serious task