It's legitimately staggering to me how much easier to maintain Linux is for the average use case than Windows. No messing with drivers; has preinstalled what's essentially a GUI app store to manage literally all of my applications; updates that don't require a restart; no bullshit with licensure; a trivial install process with zero dark patterns; no malware; and I could just keep going. Linux has faults with the UX, but having switched to it from Windows about a year ago, it's extremely evident why this stereotype is perpetuated in spite of Linux being the sort of OS I would recommend to my grandma over Windows: nose blindness.

When Linux genuinely improves the ease of use over Windows, Windows users don't even recognize it as a problem. Like imagine if the roles were reversed where on Windows I could just click a button, type in my password, and update every single one of my applications at once, but on Linux, I had to individually open any given app and check for updates manually. Windows users would rightfully be bemoaning that as too complicated for a lot of users and bitching about how tedious it is to maintain (in the case of Windows, updating is a bizarre patchwork whose difficulty depends on the application's developers). But since it's a problem they've become nose blind to, when Linux actually fixes this obviously ridiculous issue Windows has, it's seen as "not a big deal anyway".

Get thicker skin. You've no problem criticizing windows, so have some humility and realise Linux is not perfect. And it's a joke. Learn to laugh at yourself

Hardware doesn't need to be too weird. Back when I bought my laptop, it was a kinda recent model so most of its features didn't work in Ubuntu (I say Ubuntu because it's the distro that worked best. Tried many others and they had even worse support). After a year or so it worked mostly, except some things.

To this day, 4 years later, the display brightness control still doesn't work correctly.

I don't think hiding the problems do any good. The Linux desktop/laptop experience is not good, specially for non-programmers. It's usable, but not good.

It is 5 years okd, bro

Linux: i punch myself in the face because it's free

Windows: i pay this guy to punch me in the face, but he sometimes decides to punch me in the nuts, and also tries to sell me stuff

I like the part where your every move is screencapped definitely not at all "uploaded"

When the same belittling joke is retold thousands of times, it tends to lose its edge for all but a few people.

Some people just don't have a sense of humor 🤷‍♂

I spent the day yesterday trying to get kubuntu to update to the new LTS on a friend's laptop. All because plasma5 was being slow at login. Well, after a few hours, it was finally updated and we spent another 2 trying to find out why plasma6 was now slow.

The whole time I was thinking "why the hell did the update require the command-line" and "this feels like punching myself in the face". I wanted a quiet, productive saturday and spent it on linux instead.

Ubuntu is not ready for non-technical folk in these cases. Without me as support, my friend would've been lost on the "most user-friendly distro".

Linux is amazing tech and the ecosystem built around it is better than windows and mac for many things, but still fails at random, supposedly simple tasks. Yes, windows and mac too, but it's much more visible on linux.

Matt Parker also wrote a linux driver himself! Much respect.

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It's tempting to crank things up to 11 with virginity jokes. That one always gets the linux spaces roaring.

Its because Microsoft has a fully automatic gun pointed in your direction lol

all while they clockwork orange your eyes and show you nothing but ads

I feel like a torturer wants to spread the pain over time, so he's there using a Bosch mini chainsaw, slowly carving flesh away.

Yeah. He must be talking to a crowd that he figures can take a guess, but I wouldn't think that such a crowd would find it very funny. A normie crowd would just have no idea wtf he means at all.

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If you tell this joke in a linux community, its funny. If you tell it to someone who doesnt know what linux is, its not