Let’s make Windows 10 the last version ever used!
*Sat. 28 Dec. 11h* Stage YELL #KDEEco 's Call To Action against e-waste driven by #Windows10.
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https://fahrplan.alpaka.space/jugend-hackt-38c3-2024/talk/ST8NJA/
I don’t get now where you want to go now. If you want to know about computers then read, if not… just keep using things that marketing sells you. If you want to ask without reading, then better pay for a professional (or ask for someone close to you that knows computers). Like all Windows users do when they have issues. And this would apply online, if you don’t pay them, why they need to read for you? Pay for the time professionals spend for you if you can’t read. Normally people don’t read complex documentation, they just need how to install some app or how to configure something from their desktop or printer drivers, pay or read how to do it, doesn’t matter if you are using Windows or Linux, because Windows also crashes and have issues also, Linux is ready for users.
Anything new is hard, if they are used to Windows as most people, everyone would think Windows is easier than Linux, but it’s just because they are used to the other OS. Get used to Linux. Use it, read how it works. Start small. Don’t read complex documentation or even try to compile the kernel on your first day.
Let me clarify: I myself have used Linux as my only OS since the end of Win7 support, but I’ve used it via dualboot for anything not gaming even before. I’m fairly adept by now, so this whole conversation isn’t about my personal learning.
It’s about coaxing Windows users over to Linux. If you don’t care about that, stop reading and stop replying, because that’s what the whole thread was about and you clearly missed the point. If you do, we need to give people both a reason to switch and an easy transition.
Linux has a public image of “complicated” and will always have the hurdle of having to learn something different. The point is that we need to update the first (the public perception) and help people over the second as smoothly as possible. We need to project the impression that it’s no longer complicated like it used to be, and if you need help with anything, there will be plenty of people willing to help you.
And that’s where we get to the “RTFM” issue: People responding to questions with “You’re on your own” harm that impression. A new user skimming a forum or googling some issue can’t tell whether it’s a simple question or a hard question, whether it’s good documentation or bad documentation, all they see is someone asking for help and getting a “lol no”. That reputation spreads, and it speaks to a self-centered culture where “figure it out yourself” isn’t just acceptable, but the norm.
If you want to win people over, you have to welcome them in. That includes showing a willingness to help them.
Besides, isn’t the whole point of FOSS to help each other out for free, to break the commercial cycle of enshittification and exploitation?