Re:Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for ...
by mystified5016 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @02:10PM
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I gave my husband Manjaro and he's fine. I gave him a shell script to force update discord (ugh) but he only has to double click it.
People like to freak about how arch isn't for newbies but honestly it's fine. I find it to be just as stable as Debian.
But let's be real, aside from gaming, 99% of what the average user does with a computer is open a web browser. Dekstop apps are secondary. If you put a Firefox/chrome button in the task bar, you've covered most user requirements.
Power users who actually need a bunch of proper desktop applications have a different set of needs. It's impossible to generalize, but a very large fraction of those users would probably be happy with the Linux alternatives, or wine and proton. A lobotomized W10 LTSC VM is also quite usable.
most users won't know or care they're on Linux if the browser works.
People like to freak about how arch isn't for newbies but honestly it's fine. I find it to be just as stable as Debian.
But let's be real, aside from gaming, 99% of what the average user does with a computer is open a web browser. Dekstop apps are secondary. If you put a Firefox/chrome button in the task bar, you've covered most user requirements.
Power users who actually need a bunch of proper desktop applications have a different set of needs. It's impossible to generalize, but a very large fraction of those users would probably be happy with the Linux alternatives, or wine and proton. A lobotomized W10 LTSC VM is also quite usable.
most users won't know or care they're on Linux if the browser works.