It’s no surprise that NVIDIA is gradually dropping support for older videocards, with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed. What’s more surprising is the terrible way t…
If Linux is going to be usable by the average person on windows it needs to do something better than booting to a CLI and making the user figure out how to manually downgrade a package.
Is it the goal of Linux to be usable by the average person? Just asking.
I consider myself an average person. I’m a completely self-taught Linux user, until I learned a bunch more at uni, but that was a small fraction of what I know now and after I started using Linux.
I just followed the installation guide and searched the internet when I couldn’t figure something out myself, just like I expect from the average schmuck. Especially a gamer schmuck who might know a thing or two more than average average schmucks who barely use computers at all.
You know what I mean? Like are we expecting Linux to do Windows levels of handholding?
I know a lot of gamers who will happily drop into the firmware of their motherboard and tweak the timings of their RAM, but they can’t expect to learn some command line commands? Read some documentation?
If Linux is going to be usable by the average person on windows it needs to do something better than booting to a CLI and making the user figure out how to manually downgrade a package.
Is it the goal of Linux to be usable by the average person? Just asking.
I consider myself an average person. I’m a completely self-taught Linux user, until I learned a bunch more at uni, but that was a small fraction of what I know now and after I started using Linux.
I just followed the installation guide and searched the internet when I couldn’t figure something out myself, just like I expect from the average schmuck. Especially a gamer schmuck who might know a thing or two more than average average schmucks who barely use computers at all.
You know what I mean? Like are we expecting Linux to do Windows levels of handholding?
I know a lot of gamers who will happily drop into the firmware of their motherboard and tweak the timings of their RAM, but they can’t expect to learn some command line commands? Read some documentation?