| "I like your expansion upon it :)" I actually thought about that analogy for a while before, but rather used anarchy/libertarian vs. authorian/dictatorship ... (basically the same point, only more radical) Anyway: "On the software side there a million and a half different ways to do everything, and often an insane amount of "noise"/outdated info that needs filtering through to find what's relevant to your specific needs. Even at the lowest levels of the stack there is no "the one way", and I think all that uncertainty (especially from the beginner perspective) can make it feel like climbing a mountain." Yes. Even for simple things like a screenshot, there are a million ways. Not a problem in itself, but when you come from windows where this is a "print" command and I did not think there could be a reason to do it differently, but on some distros it is. I run into it a few times, "print" did not work, so googling:
You want to do a screenshot? No problem, just install this via terminal, or this, or type in those commands and there you go..
WTF? I just want a screenshot? How is this not standard? Now this seems to be mostly solved, on XFCE he even asks me what to do with the just taken screenshot, after I hit print (save, view, ..) Oh in general, I really love XFCE). But unfortunately: "Not that this helps users with existing hardware, but * definitely always google before you buy (model name + "linux" and read the first page or two of results)" this is not for newbs either. Newbs do not know the difference between gpu and cpu.
And they certainly do not order single components to put together their PC. Newbs need a company who does that for them. Compose a PC/Laptop which components who are supported and work well together, so what purism does.
But suddenly we are not on the mass market anymore ... and we see the price difference. So the problem remains complicated, with no easy solution. |