Bet, go ahead and grab your parents or the nearest old fart you know who isn’t tech savvy and try to get them to install linux, libre Office, and thunderbird and attempt to use it.
$100 says they won’t make it through using rufus without help
This is absolutely the attitude he was just talking about, you can’t agree, then add a “but”
Linux is not the fix for all that ails you, and it’s especially not the fix for non tech-savvy people, which as a reminder, is most people. Lemmy is not a good baseline for this because we’re all savvy enough to get onto the fediverse in the first place, which in itself is very confusing if you’re non tech savvy or coming from a place like reddit, where things are so fundamentally different.( Which i know for a fact most of you have experienced at some point)
I mean does it matter if you’re frank and say "its happening because you didn’t pay? Its not like they can go to the cops or something
Thanks but Im just going to go ahead and do my own thing. Everyone’s very insistent about doing things a certain way in this thread and honestly its unsolicited advice. Not everything is an XY problem :). I’m just going to install my different, unconnected libraries and tinker in peace
Well I mean obviously the answer is eggs
I love math so I was messing around with matplotlib, it’s very cool, I was able to make the Mandelbrot set! 
Pips pretty easy in pydroid, thanks! I’ll have a look at requests, since I’ve been wanting to mess with apis
My man I think you missed the part about "I’m at work”
That’s assuming I want to build a project, right now I’m messing around with numpy building arrays in different dimensions and multiplying them.
I know, but this is the weird way I learn things
It’s like talking to a little kid
Complain all you want, not a single manager out there is going to shut down any part of the active systems in place and potentially lose business to upgrade to Linux. At that point, just bring your own laptop instead of moaning about it.
And I used to think the “just switch to linux” guys were a meme, bro you’re making me want to switch back to windows out of spite
Depends on how it’s set up i guess, but if it’s your own PC that’s kind of on you id imagine
“why would we do that? Our systems don’t work on that, our people aren’t trained on that, no, get back to work”
I think that would be a pretty accurate reply to a casual request for an entire infrastructure change
Sure, but are you really going to go find the building admin and argue with them to update all of their OS’ to something they probably don’t understand? Linux is primarily a power user platform, not a mainstream one.
This looks like a public office space. You really gonna go argue with the building admin?
Yeah but the problem is I’ve seen enough of these “support” forums turn to this, unprovoked, that I don’t quite question this being possible
Can confirm, the support forum crowd are dicks
I said “tech illiterate”, most people on here are going to primarily be using Firefox and other smaller competitors, but in the main stream world like it or not chrome is still huge
I have to disagree, edge has been a big ol’ joke since it’s conception, most non tech literate people see it and go, huh, okay time to download chrome.
Most tech literate people don’t like it for the myriad of other problems, i can’t think of a single scenario where edge dominates the market
Of course, none of us would actually do that, but what I’m trying to say is that’s the threshold. For linux to become mainstream like plenty of users on here seem to vehemently believe, it HAS to start taking cues from windows, that means easier install methods, dumbed down and less terminal based procedures, and more support from mainstream and less open source software manufacturers. Otherwise the average person is going to look at linux and say “that looks hard.” full stop.
And I would reckon a lot of those changes would not go over well with current Linux userbase