That's the toxic attitude Linux is known for; if you struggle with it, it's because you're dumb.
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2026
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yes... very user friendly...
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It was a gift, over 20 years ago. I married her
Windows pretends itβs friendly, but in reality itβs just there to sell you Copilot 365 subscriptions.
I once knew someone who became an insurance salesman.
When hanging around, after a while all conversations drifted towards stuff he could insure against.
This is what using windows feels like
OneDrive secretly changing all of my save paths to OneDrive and not adding the cloud symbol to show that it's beed saving my files to Microsoft servers, even when OneDrive sync is turned off.
I wish I could drop Microsoft completely.
I think the issue is Linux users think user friendly means 100% freedom to adjust and configure as desired (the system is friendly to users), and most other people think user friendly means a single obvious green path to getting things done.
These are not strictly incompatible, theyβre just difficult to balance.
I think KDE does it well? "simple by default, powerful when needed" works a charm on their applications
KDE was a nightmare for my wife since it has the configuration right in the desktop bars and dialogs. Misclicks and drags meant she was making changes she didn't want to. GNOME was a better choice, 100% simple and no surprises.
That's stupid. We do not design cars such that it's impossible to crash if someone starts yanking on the wheel randomly.
Expecting an OS to do as much is ... just beyond pathetic.
I like Gnome too, and I think their settings done via terminal is genius. I know Apple has it too. I have no idea who invented this first, but I love it. The pro user can tune the things they like, but an average user donβt need that many configuration options.
There can't be single obvious green path for a lot of complex things and most of the things that we do on computers actually are complex like that. I would think that user friendliness is more of an indicator of a sane default behaviour or something that people already are taught to expect. Balancing that is even harder i think.
Recently been playing around with Mint. For the most part it's user friendly. Where it falls apart is it's not intuitive, it took me hours of googling to try to figure out how to add windows specific drivers (because the manufacturer didn't create Linux drivers) for a Bluetooth mouse so I could program the mouse buttons. There were community created drivers on GitHub but no direct way to get them, I would have had to download and configure several support files before I could even try to install. I eventually gave up and just bought another mouse.
Most people would have given up in the first 5min and tossed their PC out and kept the mouse.
It's not that Linux doesn't work, it's that it takes work to get it to work.
If Linux worked in the sense of clear step by step instructions and the developers/legacy users didn't expect everyone to be experts or expect everyone to spend hours trying to figure out world peace just to perform a mundane task, then it would probably replace windows pretty quickly.
meh, we already have an option for the first (KDE Plasma) and for the second (GNOME) as far as I'm concerned, so what else is missing
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