Comments by "Lautaro Quiroga" (@LautaroQ2812) on "What Desktop Linux Needs To Succeed In The Mainstream" video.

  1. I was just researching something... I forgot what it was. About an issue of removing some stuff. And one of the comments said something along the lines of "I forgot that Linux is not like Windows where you can add/remove programs and usually it removes them alone and safely (for the most part) - On Linux there's a higher chance that cleaning or removing something will break some dependency and then fuck something else up". THAT is personally for me, as a linux noob user, one of the biggest problems Linux as a whole has and it is NOT solved with a GUI package manager / software installer-updater. The argument you and some others made about people never installing an OS or updating is 100000% correct. A lot of people barely know how to turn the computer on, click on the browser button and navigate the web. And that is enough for them. My mom even though she's smart enough to be a doctor and save your life, you might as well be DEAD FOUR TIMES before she understand what the cloud is 🤣 and she doesn't understand that "she logs in once and the browser saves your passwords" (You don't need to write 50 passwords down in your notebook!). So imagine having to work around the workaround of having an office suite look-alike and god forbid something weird happens or something normal but important, like not having courier or arial font to use. But overall, things don't need to get stripped from their features or the way they work. Just the base system, imo, where you don't need to manually install dependencies and repositories and such, and then copy the text in your terminal that has gone wrong and ask some people in a forum to check it for you. Or having your GUI manager have a problem. Now I understand is easier said than done, because a lot of things that cause issue are proprietary. So that's no Linux nor devs fault. But if majority of distros are based on Ubuntu, and Ubuntu uses pulseaudio, PLEASE FIX THE GODDAMN THING. Include an equalizer and make it work well! Could you believe I had a much easier time installing it on Manjaro than KDE Neon? I went with a debian/Ubuntu based distro for the sole reason of installing .deb stuff and not run into issues, lol. And the fact that things steam from another thing on Linux make it way too hard to make mainstream, to maintain and to make it popular and easy to learn enough for regular people. Just trying to teach them about Linux > Debian / Arch /Ubuntu/RPM-Fedora is a whole afternoon.
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