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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "My kids hate the Linux challenge"
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 12:21:45 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-06-06, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
> On 2024-06-05 9:44 p.m., RonB wrote:
>> On 2024-06-05, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>> Since I'm such a terrible shill and stuff.
>>>
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS25mCLyQyk>
>>>
>>> I have NOT had a stable Linux experience.
>>>
>>> <https://youtu.be/rVmJooy5NiU?si=2D0FfhbhrXMFRwvP>
>>>
>>> Looks like the Linux community charmed Linus
>>>
>>> <https://youtu.be/fJB9fdXWiiw?si=0-JlvJROJyfG2hNF>
>> 
>> Looks like this guy has a lot of problems with Linux. He also looks to be a
>> game player. Maybe he should stick with Windows.
>> 
>> I don't have problems with Linux stability (and haven't had any stability
>> problems for about 18 years). If I did I wouldn't still be using Linux. But
>> I don't play Windows video games, so that might be the key to his (and your)
>> Linux issues.
>
> He's a professional, gaming is but one of the things he does. The 
> reality here is that if you're looking to do more than just go on the 
> web, write texts and send e-mails, Linux is just not an appropriate 
> machine. He keeps giving it a shot and getting disappointed at how bad 
> it is for everything else. However, he thought he might be biased so he 
> asked his kids to use it instead. They too can't stand it. Imagine being 
> a kid and being open to just about anything that's put in front of you 
> but even you, with an age that hasn't even reached the double digits, 
> think that Linux is lacking. As sad as this is, if you value your time 
> at all, there are but two options: Windows or Mac, same as in the 90s. A 
> friend of mine recently moved from Windows to the Mac and considers the 
> Mac Mini the best desktop he's ever owned. He tried Linux several times 
> before but came to the same conclusion as I have: it's not ready, won't 
> be ready, and isn't worth the trouble.

Bullshit. He's ONE person. He's taking a Linux "challenge." Obviously that 
means he's not used to using Linux. He's just one voice among thousands, but 
he happens to agree with your current position on Linux. Many people use 
Linux for all kinds of projects. You have a tendency to generalize, assuming 
you know what you don't know about why and how people use Linux.

As for his kids, they want to play MineCraft with him and apparently they 
can't play MineCraft Dungeons (whatever that is). So, yeah, his kids are 
thwarted in what they currently want to use their computers to do. That 
means basically NOTHING about Linux and what can be done with it. And, as 
I've said (now countless times), if you want to play Windows games, Linux is 
not your best platform.

If you search long enough you're always going to find disgruntled people 
whining about something — and you happen to be searching for disgruntled 
people whining about Linux, so you've found one. Congratulations, you can 
use an Internet search engine. Now search for people who love Linux and have 
used it for years to balance things out. You'll find plenty of those people 
as well.

I know you're frustrated because you want to use Linux because of the BS 
Microsoft is doing with Windows — but you're just going to have accept that 
Windows is a better platform for Windows video games. That doesn't mean 
Linux is not a good OS, it's just got the odds stacked against for playing 
these *WINDOWS* games.

As for valuing my time, Updating Windows 10 just two times probably takes as 
much time as updating Linux for a couple years. I've used Windows, and I own 
a couple Macs. I don't like or use either of those OSes. I like Linux 
because it's superior and makes more sense. (But it's not superior for 
playing Windows games or running bloated Microcrap Office — so if that's 
important to a user, they're probably better off using Windows.)

Good luck with whatever direction you go. You'll have no luck convincing me 
that Windows or Mac OS is better than Linux — no matter how many so-called 
YouTube "experts" you trot out.

-- 
[Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an 
entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." 
"It was pride that changed angels into devils..."     — St. Augustine