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Many donateable PCs can’t run Windows 11. Should non-profits still be giving them away? Should they install Linux instead?
  • FizzyOrange
    42·
    3 hours ago

    Is this a joke? The main way most Linux users install software is still via the command line.

    On Windows the command line is an exceptional thing you sometimes have to use for troubleshooting. On Linux it’s the default way everything is done.

    For example how do you stop a service on Linux? The top answer just assumes command line.

    If I search for how to do it with a GUI I get a 5 year old post explaining that all the GUI attempts are dead.

    Now if I search for Windows, I get these instructions (from the AI but they sound like I remember it):

    open the Services console (search for “services” in the Start menu), right-click the service you want to stop, and select “Stop”.

    And the top SO question is someone asking specifically how to do it with the command line because the GUI way is so easy and obvious.

    That’s just one random example. Not even getting to hardware support, ease of installation, etc.

    • ZeroOne@lemmy.world
      21·
      2 hours ago

      Most things are point & click & no one uses CLI in windows, it’s objectively inferior to linux

      Also “start & stop a service” ? Does that sound like something an average user deals with in windows ?

      Linux does need a control panel, I can admit that but let’s not pretend that Linux’s CLI is tough to learn. & the CLI is the most effective way of doing things in a pinch, when push comes to shove.

      If someone like Pewdiepie (he’s no tech-savvy guy) can use linux, thrn linux has gotten user-friendly enough, although linux can do better & more needs to be done

      • Ease of installation😅 now you’re straight up lying, linux is by far easier to install with a liveUSB
      • as for hardware, that’s upto the manufacturers to open up their systems

      Thanks for revealing your hatred for linux (I cannot wait for you to call me a linux-cultist, eventhough I admitted that linux can do better)