Integrate777

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[–] Integrate777@discuss.online 19 points 1 month ago (11 children)

What if websites decide that chrome users earn much more ad revenue and start forcing users to switch with those "This website only supports Chrome" error messages? What if this practice gets popular? I'm sure there are ways to get around it, but the average users who bothered switching to Firefox at all, will just conclude that anything except chrome has a bad browsing experience.

[–] Integrate777@discuss.online 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (13 children)

On top of being preinstalled, we also need google search-able instructions that avoid the terminal altogether. People are afraid of the terminal, it doesn't matter why, it just is.

Currently, most solutions to linux problems come in the form of terminal commands. We would have to start creating a whole new troubleshooting forum where instructions avoid the terminal and are just lists of buttons to press in a GUI. Probably helpful screenshots too.

Of course I have no idea if some things even have GUIs at all, like configuring user groups and permissions or firewall settings, someone would need to make them. Not to mention every DE or program would need a different set of instructions, GNOME or KDE, firewalld or iptables. It'll be a lot of work.

[–] Integrate777@discuss.online 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I used gnome though. IIRC, everything to do with customising GNOME is done through extensions, and all extensions have GUI settings menus.

My point being, even though it's objectively harder to customise GNOME, it still doesn't require using the terminal.

[–] Integrate777@discuss.online 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

What exact GUI controls does linux lack that windows doesn't?

[–] Integrate777@discuss.online 3 points 3 months ago

It went great. I mostly had to submit files in PDF, which allowed any office software to work perfectly.

That is until covid came around and I had to do proctored online exams. The proctoring software doesn't support linux.