• Digit@lemmy.wtf
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    4 days ago

    You have experience of people being scared off? [Or mere hypothesis?]

    I have experience of people being helped.

    I wonder what’s the extra nuance and criteria that decides which way that bifurcates.

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      4 days ago

      I mean I know how to choose a distro and there’s no way in hell I’d ever use that chart to choose one. In addition I don’t really need to ask my wife because I can guarantee she wouldn’t read a single line of it.

      It’s not a hypothesis that the reason people don’t switch to Linux is because it’s too difficult for the layperson. If you give them a flowchart that’s larger than any flowchart they’ve ever seen before, before they even touch the operating system, there’s no way in hell they’re gonna use Linux.