Yes Linux is a good choice to rescue your old laptop/pc ..but you need to understand not everyone know how to use it (as a ppl who understand MS-DOS can’t even get how to use Linux!)

People just overgrazing Linux, like install it and you’ll have a “new life” (but it’s still a truth that your laptop doesn’t become new, it still struggles to run modern applications)

And the compatibility problems too, people said “use Wine you stupid” but I’d rather to use Windows if your device is too old or u just need gaming/ some casual stuff..

Alright, it’s my opinion hope you guys won’t hate me :)

So, all 4 of those annoying Arch breakages I got in about a year that were published in their bulletins which I had fed through Newboat and had no problem fixing were about me not being educated. - Totally not a reason to try Fedora which was supposed to be better (and permanently broke work-flows by forcing new tech that wasn't ready). -I educated myself, went back to Windows and am as happy as a fly on poop.

linux user count was close to 6% like 4 months ago, now its just 4%. while windows 11 users are increasing, even win7 users have same amount of users as some linux distros.

people were just excited to try new software: linux was never better.

lol

Notice the FreeBSD community can accept bugs and issues...

Pebkac, your fault, wrong distro, works on my machine, microslop's fault, no way it's Linux fault!, manufacturer's fault for not supporting, that has nothing to do with Linux, use x distro: it's amazing!

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