bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 days agoSometimes people like to complain about windows and iOSlocksh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square335fedilinkarrow-up1735arrow-down1103
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minus-squarejjjalljs@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·2 days ago may genuinely be unskilled when it comes to computers in general. I do not accept this idea that people are so unskilled at computers they can’t install Linux, and are so immutably so they can’t get better. Like yeah sometimes you have to ask for help or watch a YouTube video. That shit’s free and right there.
minus-squareSolSerkonos@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-22 days agoThey definitely exist, but it feels like stubbornness at that point. It absolutely isn’t a lack of capability, it’s a lack of willingness.
minus-squarepetrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoGetting around people’s lack of willingness is the only way the year of the linux desktop will ever happen. Like with global warming, people can just choose not to, you know.
I do not accept this idea that people are so unskilled at computers they can’t install Linux, and are so immutably so they can’t get better.
Like yeah sometimes you have to ask for help or watch a YouTube video. That shit’s free and right there.
They definitely exist, but it feels like stubbornness at that point. It absolutely isn’t a lack of capability, it’s a lack of willingness.
Getting around people’s lack of willingness is the only way the year of the linux desktop will ever happen.
Like with global warming, people can just choose not to, you know.
It’s learned helplessness