Why are distro communities turning linux more and more into Windows and Mac OS clones?

This is why I use Arch.

  • BassTurd@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Are you trying to gatekeep Linux to only power users that use a CLI, are way above the average in computer literacy, and happen to know the nuances between Linux and other operating systems?

    This is the kind of thinking that will prevent adoption to the masses. Linux doesn’t have to be stupid hard to use. There are specific distros like vanilla Arch for advanced users to tinker with and options like Manjaro and Ubuntu that are ideally functional out of the box for those that just want something to work.

    What Manjaro is doing here is dumb AF, and should rightfully be heavily criticized, but you statement feels like your saying you should have to be a computer expert to use any Linux distro, and that’s dumb.

    • taladar@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      This is the kind of thinking that will prevent adoption to the masses.

      Why do people always assume that is even something desirable? All that will get us is more requests for support with fewer people actually helping.

      Linux doesn’t have to be stupid hard to use.

      And the assumption that GUI=easy and CLI=hard should have really died in the 90s when it started.