Comments by "Juzu Juzu" (@juzujuzu4555) on "2021: When Your Computer Speaks, You Should Listen." video.
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Trying to find a group with over 50 million people that doesn't have any radioactive people is impossible. For some reason people who fail at migrating to Linux seems to always find these poisonous people, maybe to feel better about failing themselves. When I seem to only encounter people who just want to help people.
For most it's obvious why there is no commercial support. The only real complaint is about hardware manufacturers that do not provide any help/info that would allow open source drivers to be manufactured by the community.
Making fun on Linus like this is harmless. While the problem with PopOS was clearly the fault of the PopOS, the user is still at fault for not reading the screen. I haven't seen anyone who blames Linus more than PopOS, mostly it's 90/10 for the OS' fault. This video is purely humor, and it's about the most known Youtuber who has the reputation of being humorous guy, and who references himself as such constantly.
Someone who just tries to install Linux for the first time almost certainly cannot point flaws that the community already doesn't know. But in Linus' case exposing certain flaws for the public got them attention, mostly this PopOS thing that was momentary mistake. In Linus' case he really doesn't even want to use Linux, he expects Windows' paradigms, and complain about things that Linux community cannot fix because of the hardware manufacturers.
The challenge itself is insane, as no one should migrate to Linux to play Windows games. It's great that games are working better and better, so if you appreciate other things on Linux you possibly can play games also without dual booting, but in that case you have to appreciate the other aspects Linux gives or there's no reason for the migration. One month is so short time that there's absolutely nothing to be gained from migration. You get all the problems and then the challenge is over. This could have been decent if LMG would have had multiple contestant and the challenge would have been one year long, or as long as the last person would have migrated back. If Linus would have asked volunteers and give the winners some prices, there might have been many who would have tried and some who might have migrated for the good. But perhaps it would have been too big undertaking and without the most well known people in the challenge probably would have dropped the viewership of those videos.
The one real flaw that prevents migration is the cost of migration. You need to learn a lot, things that you already have learned for your current OS, you get all the problems in the beginning and the rewards come later. And there really isn't much that could be done to change this. People who do not appreciate freedom, open source, privacy, enough to ditch Windows just because of those things, almost certainly do not feel it's worth the effort to migrate.
Linux can become normie friendly if some corporation starts hosting a distro and really mean business. Valve's SteamOS that come in 2022 has the potential to kind of force certain standardization and thus make it easier for commercial software to enter in Linux. Lets hope Steam Deck gets really popular and all goes well.
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