Comment by johnnyanmac 4 days ago
Not much else to do. You either convert people, convert the companies to support Linux, or convert the government into cracking down on whatever makes it difficult for Linux to be supported. The latter is highly unlikely, and the 2nd only cares if people shift their habits.
So there's only one channel left.
How so? My impression is that Ubuntu is the biggest distro and it's philosophy is pretty much trying to replicate the Mac experience. I don't think the base UX can get easier to use at that rate.
Things that don't work out of the box tend to be proprietary stuff, like GPU drivers. That falls back to converting companies.
Ubuntu has done a decent job for normal installs but take it from me, if you want to dual boot it, it still doesn’t make it easy. It’s too easy to mess up your whole system if you don’t know what you’re doing, not to mention bootloaders are all still stuck in the 90’s, and are even worse to configure nicely than they are to use.
Dual booting is one of the best ways to introduce someone to Linux in theory as they’ll feel safe trying that without having to delete their whole old system… except it’s also the scariest and most difficult way to install it and no installer makes it easy. It’s a real foot gun.
I mean, the community could be less hostile to newcomers, and some of the bigger distorts could focus more on the user experience of inexperienced users. Those things can be done without any of those.