Just sharing this really well produced video on Linux’s public perception (since this channel has suprisingly not a lot of subscribers)
Just sharing this really well produced video on Linux’s public perception (since this channel has suprisingly not a lot of subscribers)
Can you tell us what you find difficult while using Linux? (After the installation).
PS: Not a rhetoric. Just trying to understand the friction.
Just annoying things like missing video codecs in fedora. Why the heck do I have to install something just to watch a video online?! Or the fingerprint reader in Ubuntu only works for the one session, after that it forgets all my prints again. Or using proton and missing dx11 drivers in pop os, I know they are crappy Microsoft software, but are required for some games. Or that Ableton, fusion360, affinity are not available for Linux. I know it’s not Linux fault, we need big companies to invest in Linux in order for it to gain more traction. Or all the package managers. Which should I use? Snap comes with Ubuntu but people say it’s bad and flat pack is better. Or that there is no sound output selection or mixer in the gnome top bar, I need to install an gnome addon for that. There are just little things compared to Mac or windows that Linux is missing or has difficulty with. Don’t get me wrong, I use Linux full time on my laptop now and try to move to Linux on my desktop as well. Those are just things that tech savvy people would struggle with, and I can’t blame them form calling Linux difficult then
MPEG-LA licensing or the legal hell of USA-based organisations is a risk to small projects like Fedora, so where possible they cut the risk and lay it on users decision to use propriatory licenses.
At least that is how I understood it. I don’t know how Arch Linux and Debian (i.e. pacman and APT) don’t have that problem.
Uugh I’m so sick of proprietory licenses and software… all this licensing shit… I’m just fed up
Part of the problem also has to do with corporate-backed distros. Fully community-driven distros don’t suffer from that nearly as much, if at all.
I like Fedora, but stuff like that makes me worry about how it’s going to be as time goes on.
This is why I’d steer clear from Fedora. Even as an experienced user, it’s quite a pain to setup.
I’d go with Linux Mint instead.
I use Ubuntu at the moment. Where are the differences?
More comtrol on how you want to install your packages.
Last night I took an old laptop off the shelf to experiment with Linux gaming. I installed draugr, rebooted, and no operating system found. Fine, it’s an old machine without UEFI, let’s try pop os. Installed, rebooted, no os found. Boot from the USB, turns out the installer didn’t set my drive as active, this was probably the problem with draugr too. Fix it, boot, connect to wifi. It successfully got a DHCP address, right gateway, right DNS, no internet. Can’t traverse the default gateway for some reason.
Now, I’ve been using Linux on servers since 1999. I can probably fix this too. But 2 show stopper issues affecting basic bare minimum functionality within 5 minutes of a fresh install makes me wonder what comes next, and wonder if I should bother continuing because I know win 10 would work on this hardware out of the box and I could do what I want to do instead of futzing around to get to that point. This is why Linux will continue to fail on the desktop. I’m a professional and I don’t want to deal with this. How would a noob feel about it?