This is the correct mindset to have when trying to push Linux as a viable alternative to the big two.
If you make more things easy for newcomers and just anyone in general, you’ll eventually get more users, and a larger base that then correlates to higher overall usage of Linux. You know, like those screenshots of the Linux install base we see every now and then?
You don’t have to keep Linux behind arbitrary lines, but for some reason, that’s all we like to do.
“Unfortunately” most of the higher user base comes from the Steamdeck where most users never use it as a desktop PC. While many people are now trying Linux for themselves due to lots of good reasons, it remains unnecessarily complicated to use for many reasons. Abundance of bad advice being one of them.
This is the correct mindset to have when trying to push Linux as a viable alternative to the big two.
If you make more things easy for newcomers and just anyone in general, you’ll eventually get more users, and a larger base that then correlates to higher overall usage of Linux. You know, like those screenshots of the Linux install base we see every now and then?
You don’t have to keep Linux behind arbitrary lines, but for some reason, that’s all we like to do.
“Unfortunately” most of the higher user base comes from the Steamdeck where most users never use it as a desktop PC. While many people are now trying Linux for themselves due to lots of good reasons, it remains unnecessarily complicated to use for many reasons. Abundance of bad advice being one of them.