• halcyoncmdr@piefed.social
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    6 hours ago

    This is exactly the type of shit I’ve been trying to explain to the Linux fanboys for years and all of them dismiss outright.

    Until simple shit like this is easy for the average person, Linux will never replace Windows as a default OS option for regular users. 99% of people are scared of config files and the terminal, and they’re still just too commonly needed in every distro.

    A LOT of work has been done to minimize it, but there’s always still basic functionality that just isn’t in the GUI. That’s not an issue for most of us here… But it is for most people. Fediverse users are a small minority.

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      6 hours ago

      You would have to run OpenSUSE tumbleweed to get the GUI equivalent of windows configuration.

      Yast has a GUI app for everything from Samba setup to Bootloader config.

      The trouble is: initially there is a learning curve to SUSE that is different than something like Mint

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      What do you use the terminal and config files for? I mainly use bazzite now but after a fresh install the most I do is login to steam and change some settings in Firefox. I copy paste my directory settings for imports on darktable to point to my nas but thats probably the most advanced thing I do