Games on Linux are great now this is why I fully moved to Linux. Is the the work place Pc’s market improving.
I guess it would be reducing the need of terminal usage as much as possible. That’s still the only thing a common user struggles with, in my opinion. The rest is just difference or has nothing to do with Linux.
With Linux gaming is rising currently, most common problem is kernel anti-cheat games and it’s not Linux problem, for example. What are devs supposed to do? To develop literal Windows kernel compatibility layer or something? But Linux may do stuff on their end to make cheating difficult to keep game studio’s happy but that would also mean to stray away from its philosophy. As a general platform, it would be hard to do this anyway. This would be possible per distro basis. Maybe Linux dev circles are already discussing this, maybe not, I don’t know honestly.
I mean to be fair most modern distros have a gooey for everything from updating to obtaining new packages to installing and managing software settings everything
If you want to use a terminal, it is completely optional in most distros now.
Hell I installed God damn endeavor OS for my brother. He is not once needed to use a terminal in 2 and 1/2 years. He uses nothing but a GUI manager for packages gaming everything.
He’s the kind of guy who doesn’t understand the difference between his desktop and a web browser. Took him about 3 weeks to get used to KDE and other than being inundated with a bunch of questions at the start of just what the name of different applications were to be able to find settings. He seriously couldn’t find the settings app called settings.
He hasn’t had any issues that he wouldn’t also have had on Windows. At this point everything is just game related and unique to the game he happens to be playing.
I could end of the day. Terminal usage is entirely not required. It’s just easier to use the terminal for so much that a lot of people go straight to it or default back to it instead of fighting through the GUI. That’s the real issue. It’s not that the terminal is mandatory. It’s that the GUI while they exist and are competent in, complete enough to actually cover all your use cases finally.
Still need a lot of work to get to the point where they are. So user-friendly that even my idiot brother can use them without help at the start of his learning experience.
To be fair 7 or 8 years ago GUI were not complete enough to cover all use cases in terminals were still very much required for some niche things. We’ve come a long way, especially in the last three or 4 years on that front.
Also, as someone who has helped probably 60ish people over the last 4 years convert to Linux. The thing I have learned the most stop recommending gnome. Like gnome is the least user friendly desktop experience to learn on for new users. It is far too restrictive and descriptive too new users.
It results in new users. Getting frustrated because things that they expect to be there or to be adjustable or to work like Windows or Mac just don’t. You need too many extensions, tools, tweaks and things to get it to the point that new users can bring existing knowledge from other systems over and hit the ground running.
Gnome is gnome’s way no one else is in that fundamentally is a bad new user experience in a very poor learning platform.
If we weren’t in a world where windows and Mac were so widespread it would be fine. But because users already have a host, a lifetime of knowledge based on other systems, you have to be able to convert that knowledge to the new system for new users. Asking them to do something a specific and new way or to move outside of the officially supported methods immediately to be able to use that knowledge. Is bad.
I’ve put new users on mate Cinnamon budgie kde gnome and xfce.
My experience the ones that do the best for new users coming from Windows or Mac. Has been xfce for users who have been using computers since Windows 95-XP. Cinnamon and mate tend to do amazingly well for users that grew up on Windows 7.
While KDE has far and away with kde6 been the most reliable for Windows 10 and 11 converts especially kids between the ages of like 12 to 16.
I’ve put people on endeavor popos mint and even open suse that have all done very well.
Weirdly enough. Every time someone tries Ubuntu it breaks on them not immediately. Usually usually within about 3 months. It just always breaks and some stupid way. I have just started telling people to avoid Ubuntu.
