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The real reason behind tech illiteracy is phones, with their 100% PC independent and 100% locked down ecosystems.
This gets reposted ever month
Mom said it was my turn to post it!
C64 forever!!!
I think for the past couple of decades windows and mac have had similar levels of complexity for the average user. Most people dont do anything more than going through an install wizard
But most Linux Distributions also have a Install-Wizard and even GUIs for installing softwareβ¦
I would even say installing a normal program on Ubuntu via the Softwaremanager is easier than installing a normal Windows Executable since Windows adds the extra Steps of having to search and download it and afterwards to read the software terms and mark the checkboxes
The only more complex step with Linux is downloading the ISO and booting from it
-> So just the Distribution of the initial OS is easier with Windows and macOS for Desktop, for Mobile we anyway won as Linux-Community with having Android on most phones
I wasn't autistic, I was poor and switching to Linux made old hand-me-down computers work like new. It also frustrated me a lot, but that's part of the game.
Best use of a Mac is to sell it and buy 2 computers to put Linux on.
To fix Windows problems, reboot (and pray)
To fix Linux problems, Be root.
I had a job developing software for datacenter machines' hardware and software health. And the most common automatic repair that we had was escalating 1. reboot; 2. reinstall OS; 3. check hardware. I know it's different but it was fun to see it "first-hand".
And also, "to create Linux problems, be root" works as well.
to create Linux problems, be root
Personal attacks are against community rules.
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Since when did this become an autistic trait? I joined the school computer club when I was 14. It started that year with a single IBM PC. We did not load Linux because it didn't exist for another decade otherwise I'm sure we would have. I have to believe that kind of curiosity and learning still exists without one needing to be autistic. Then again, under current diagnostics for autism, we might all have been on the spectrum since we were all geeks on some level.
The fact that you're responding to a joke in a very literal way is honestly pretty good.
Then again, under current diagnostics for autism, we might all have been on the spectrum since we were all geeks on some level.
Who is gonna tell him?
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Is Discluded a word? Isn't that Excluded?
No no, discluded is for when you exclude someone and diss them at the same time.
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The first 3 computers I ever touched were an Apple II, Apple II e, and a Powemac.
Then I spent a decade in the Windows wilderness. Back and forth... Now safely home to Linux.
Maybe not a good question by itself.
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Is the hypothesis that people in those two OS's have no clue about other OS's and the one thats looks like a fruit have a superiority complex?
Linux users are particularly notorious for not having superiority complex.
I use Arch btw
I have a superuser complex
sudo drop your complex
Changing βsudoβ to βpleaseβ on my terminal was the best thing I ever did, now all of my conversations with my computer look so polite
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i think the hypothesis is that windows kids have general tech literacy and problem solving skills and OSX kids dont. and linux users are autustic ;-]
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disclusion is not real science
It ain't real English either
but "exclusion" is, lol
ps autists will not skew the results, there are vastly more normal kids than autists, and even then only a subset of autists are into IT, making the results skew smaller. i guess you could call it cherry-picking, cuz youre picking from what is supposed to be a random set of people
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I have full time Linux users on my team. I fix their code all day and go home to use all 3 osβs.
Using Linux means you like tinkering, not that your smarter or more capable.
In my case, I used Linux because I didn't like being spied on. I also didn't like ads and I hated my settings being reverted after Windows updates. Fuck Windows. It's an OS that doesn't understand consent.
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I almost never seen Macs irl growing up, it was very much Windows country where I live. So obviously when I asked for a computer as a kid it came with Windows, in my case Vista...
Only in the last maybe 8? years I started seeing people who used Macs irl and it tends to be younger people who only have a Macbook for online school stuff.
Also yes I'm the only Linux desktop user I know, Even the servers in every office I've worked in have been Windows.
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I remember this meme from when the Berlin Wall fell and everyone in the DDR got access to Ubuntu.
people who grew dealing with classic mac are going to flip a table reading this.
Guess i'm autistic lol. I did install Linux on my laptop when i was 12, but it didn't last very long. The only reason i installed it is because i felt bored with the Windows UI, and distros like Ubuntu and Mint looked really interesting at the time. After i realized that i couldn't get my EXEs to work i just went back to Windows lol.
It wasn't until LTT made their video about using PopOS instead of Windows 11 back in 2021 that i remembered Linux even existed. I decided to give it a shot since Windows 10 had already started to freak me out for a while with their weird questions like asking if they can use my handwriting data. The rest is history. I know LTT gets a lot of flack for how they've handled their Linux content, and some of it is deserved, but if it wasn't for me seeing that video i wouldn't have given it a try.
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