Yes, but that is also our fault to some extent, years of so called "Linux Evangelists" telling people the Command Line is the ultimate, and so people have ended up believing that you HAVE to use the command line to get anything done in Linux. My friends who never used Linux before, were terrified of having to go back to "DOS days" of nothing but command line since that is all they knew about Linux. Mint and POP!_OS changed their minds since I set things up so they should never have to even open a terminal. In so many ways we did it to ourselves.coffee412 wrote: ⤴Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:52 pmThat is like my Brother. He is totally closed to linux and says "I do not want to have to learn <insert language here> to use the computer". Which he is referring to the command line. He is so close minded that I really feel sorry for him. Some people just cannot be reached no matter what. On the other hand, My 90 year old Dad says "Gee, I like this. Its great. Does everything I need it to do. How do they make money with this though???". lol..
My S.O. (girlfriend) I just made her do it. I took her windows away and put linux on. Now when she see's me having to do something in windows to repair a clients computer she says "Thats just retarded". lol..
Also the perception that there is no software on Linux comes from people going "I can't make Photoshop, or AutoCad, or [insert random windows only software here]" and cannot find something that works "like" what they are used to using. It was a fight getting my daughter to use LibreOffice since she claimed only Microsoft Office worked right, so I set it up to save as a .docx instead of .odt. My friend Peter who got his first Mint laptop was of much the same mindset.