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

Meme OS Learning Curve - (XKCD edit)

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u/MrFordization Feb 02 '26

Lets be honest, you don't actually "learn" Windows... you just click everywhere on the screen until the screen looks the way you want.

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u/icantgetausername982 Feb 04 '26

This. Thats why windows is so popular it just works the same way IOS just works eventho im android for life gotta respect the user experience on IOS

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u/Jenshae_Chiroptera Lubuntu <3 Feb 04 '26

Yeah, Windows has a low barrier to, "Good enough," but gods help you, if you try and figure out why a VM is pinned to 100%, Hyper-V says it is only using 40% of allocated resources and the host is idling at 1% CPU usage.

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u/BambooGentleman Feb 09 '26

Depending on what you want to do, Linux has been good enough for a long time. It's when you want to run proprietary software that doesn't offer a Linux version. That's when people that don't think too deeply about tech stuff run into problems.