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Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA (ostechnix.com)
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[–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I have not found that to be the case.

Try and tell them that your average user cannot, or will not, use the command line , and you'll both get called morons.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Okay but I've been using Linux for several years and I've never had to use the command line. I have used it a couple times, but it was by choice, not necessity.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Who is this mythical average user I keep hearing about?

    I've never had a problem forcing people at work - even those with very limited IT knowledge - to run things from cli in windows.

    For years in one place I worked the IT support first line solution was to tell all users to force a gp update from the windows cli. They'd point to a nice little how to guide with screenshots and everything. I don't know if any of the thousands of people working there were the all important average user either though, probably not.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yep, there it is.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Haha, Don't offer people windows 11 , even in jest. It's clearly the opposite of "being excellent" to them ( rule 3).

    Gotta love mods.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    The folks who show up looking to genuinely learn something, who have a goal to accomplish, I'll gladly help them out. I'll go learn something I don't know yet so I can teach it to them. Willingness to learn is the most respectable thing I can think of. All that "EAUGH Linux isn't user friendly enough" shit is unwillingness to learn. "Why doesn't this perfectly conform to my bad habits?" Because you haven't died in a fire yet. Common mistake for people like you.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Windows 11 is nowhere near as terrible as people here make it out to be.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Its not terrible, objectively speaking, but as someone who uses it for work - I don't care to use it at home at all. The only Windows instances at home are VMs running W10 LTSC, and they are strictly for specialty software (vehicle diagnostics stuff) or legal reasons (my lawyer requires Adobe Acrobat for PDFs). I have zero physical Windows machines otherwise.

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