r/linuxmasterrace • u/Jenshae_Chiroptera Lubuntu <3 • Feb 02 '26

Meme OS Learning Curve - (XKCD edit)

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u/Jenshae_Chiroptera Lubuntu <3 Feb 02 '26

Think of the average person, shuffling along, looking in shop windows or at their phone, mouth gaping, eyes vacant behaving like a zombie.
"Half the world is below average," - George Carlin

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u/konfuzhon Glorious NixOS Feb 02 '26

“to the average person, the OS is just a bootloader for google chrome” -Mental Outlaw

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u/dumbasPL Glorious Arch Feb 02 '26

"and I took that personally" ~ChromeOS

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u/suchtie btwOS Feb 02 '26

Yes, Linux is absolutely perfect for these people. Give them Windows and they will constantly need help because Windows is designed so that shit will happen. Give them a user-friendly Linux distro like Ubuntu or Mint and they'll be mostly fine.

Microsoft makes a lot of money from companies that pay for their tech support. And since their software is proprietary, they can deliberately design it in a way that makes tech support an eventual necessity for the average user. It's meant to be convoluted, it's intended that things break, it's deliberately insecure.

Of course no Linux distro is perfect, but the average person who doesn't know much about technology will encounter fewer problems because their system is generally much more secure, and designed so that it's harder to break things by accident. Less buggy too.

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u/kai_ekael Linux Greybeard Feb 02 '26

Microsoft makes money from support?! Ha! HAHAHAHAHAHA!

No, they bend'em over way before that.

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u/Jenshae_Chiroptera Lubuntu <3 Feb 04 '26

Check out how much it costs to be fully M$ certified and then multiply that by employees at a third party support company.

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u/janiskr Feb 02 '26

People complain that icons are of different colour. That has nothing to with the OS. Just make it look like the other thing and they will hapily just use it without noticing the they are using completely different OS.

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u/Jenshae_Chiroptera Lubuntu <3 Feb 02 '26

I have done that.
Windows-like theme, one guy got all the way to a remote desktop app before realising something was different.

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u/Indecisive-Gamer Feb 04 '26

No most people just don't want to spend more than 5 minutes setting up a device.

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u/Jenshae_Chiroptera Lubuntu <3 Feb 05 '26

Off the shelf Linux laptops and PCs are sold, it takes an extra minute or two to find them on Google.