That's really wholesome lol
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I like to call myself a professional idiot. I love tinkering with my homelab setup.
As someone with a strong tech background, that's just impressive to me. It's cool to see non-technical people are interested in self-hosting too, and for good reason.
IMO 16, if you can trust them to be responsible enough to drive you can trust them to have a smartphone. If you can't trust them to drive then yeah they probably shouldn't have a smartphone lol
My last 3 employers have let me use Linux on my work laptop, I've gone with Ubuntu each time, it has worked really well for me. I'm lucky that I get to use Linux since I work as a web dev, it often matches production more easily that way.
You can generally install Linux on any computer you want, entirely for free. You don't need to buy a new computer, you just install it like any other operating system.
Also there's often live USB environments where you can boot from the USB but try it out before dedicating to installing it on your SSD/hard drive. You could technically even dual boot but that can have its own problems.
As always, back up your data when trying out things.
For basic things like web browsing, watching videos, and reading emails, Linux is excellent. It's when you start getting into more power-user type stuff where you have to learn more about how things work on Linux.
if anything is preventing people from switching it’s Linux users, and probably developers as well. if you make it look like people have to have a degree to get into your shit, they’re not gonna do it.
The thing is, I agree with you, and unfortunately it's actually a common misconception how difficult Linux is to use. You can easily install a beginner-friendly distro like Ubuntu/Mint/PopOS and get started that way, it doesn't have to be daunting. It's free to try out and you have nothing to lose by giving it a try, you could always go back to Windows.
I got lucky that my last 3 jobs have all let me use Linux on a work laptop, but I guess it's not too surprising since I work as a web developer and production always runs on Linux lol
We would need all peasants doing it at once. One peasant doing it just means you get your head cut off, which unfortunately doesn't help.
I can't imagine that they won't be removing it eventually though.
It will never understand context and business rules and things of that nature to the same extent that actual devs do.
Don't use them for facts, use them for assisting you with menial tasks like data entry.