There might be a very simple explanation for why the masses have yet to adopt Linux as their desktop operating system and it's one the open-source community won't like.

I’m curious to hear thoughts on this. I agree for the most part, I just wish people would see the benefit of choice and be brave enough to try it out.

  • db2@sopuli.xyz
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    10 months ago

    What is your point? That you’re more enlightened than us plebs or something?

    • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 months ago

      you keep saying that the average user can do this or that. when the point isn’t whether they could, but whether they want to. The average user does not want to choose. Look up the paradox of choice.

      It’s hard for a system to become mainstream when techy people keep boasting to them that its biggest feature is the one they specifically do not want

      • db2@sopuli.xyz
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        10 months ago

        Maybe that’s just another feature. Eternal September sucks, as evidence by this very interaction.