By dumbing down the suite, are you talking about things like flatpak / atomic distros?
If so, I am also not a fan of those things - give me Debian stable and the software in the repos and I’m happy - but I also don’t think I will be harmed by others coming in and trying different approaches. From what I can tell, with each paradigm shift, the old approach doesn’t go away, but stays powered by the volunteers who care about it.
You know, back in the day, normies used DOS, Windows 3.1, and various Apple machines. (None of these were seamless) You’d be surprised now much non-enthusiasts can do when motivated. They did break stuff, but they tried to use it all.
Linux aside, would it not benefit the world if people moved away from non-free software?
To me, this is a good reason to encourage people to switch, not discourage them.
I think Linux has a sort of built-in failsafe for that, in that it’s so fragmented. I’m sure that if a critical mass of people start using it then enshittification and nonsense will start to creep in in places (as with everything, more people come > corporations follow trying to make a buck > they slowly poison and ruin everything) but there’s nothing to stop someone just spinning off a different distro that works only for nerds.
I don’t want normies using Linux. They’ll ruin it lol.
Good thing that idiot Pewdiepie, recommended Arch to those 12 year olds.
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This comment makes you sound like the 12 year old
Just ban them from Stack Overflow and forums. no nned to gatekeep the software.
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By dumbing down the suite, are you talking about things like flatpak / atomic distros?
If so, I am also not a fan of those things - give me Debian stable and the software in the repos and I’m happy - but I also don’t think I will be harmed by others coming in and trying different approaches. From what I can tell, with each paradigm shift, the old approach doesn’t go away, but stays powered by the volunteers who care about it.
Give me Flatpak and atomic distros, I’m too old for maintenance. Give me some of that good dumbing down, cause I’m dumb.
I’m a one man dev/support/sysadmin I use Ublue’s and Nixos because why would I do the work that’s already been done,
Imo GNOME is already pretty easy to use.
You know, back in the day, normies used DOS, Windows 3.1, and various Apple machines. (None of these were seamless) You’d be surprised now much non-enthusiasts can do when motivated. They did break stuff, but they tried to use it all.
Linux aside, would it not benefit the world if people moved away from non-free software? To me, this is a good reason to encourage people to switch, not discourage them.
I think Linux has a sort of built-in failsafe for that, in that it’s so fragmented. I’m sure that if a critical mass of people start using it then enshittification and nonsense will start to creep in in places (as with everything, more people come > corporations follow trying to make a buck > they slowly poison and ruin everything) but there’s nothing to stop someone just spinning off a different distro that works only for nerds.