I built a custom Linux gaming PC, and installed Ubuntu on it. I made some poor choices, but eventually got the thing working. After a week of testing and ref...
Linus didn’t attempt to learn anything, and slapped the keyboard like a toddler having a temper tantrum.
Instead of using the software installer gui, he pasted apt-get into the manjaro console, and then complained it didn’t work 🤦♂️
Thats not a UX problem its a PEBKAC.
Because everyone keeps giving him conflicting info and told him to use the console, it’s pretty much what happens to every new Linux user but everyone is so used to Linux that they think it’s a non-issue. My first reaction was to download Steam flatpak, but that version had issues so I installed it from the console, and you bet most newbies will copy/paste because nobody wants to learn how to use the console…
I love how people simply decided that he was complaining when he talked about that.
He literally said that that’s how he found out Manjaro uses a different package manager. Before that, he didn’t understand that different distros use different package managers. It’s wasn’t a complaint, it was him talking about his learning process.
Linus didn’t attempt to learn anything, and slapped the keyboard like a toddler having a temper tantrum.
Instead of using the software installer gui, he pasted
apt-getinto the manjaro console, and then complained it didn’t work 🤦♂️Thats not a UX problem its a PEBKAC.
Just like 95% of all computer users.
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/
you’re not wrong
Because everyone keeps giving him conflicting info and told him to use the console, it’s pretty much what happens to every new Linux user but everyone is so used to Linux that they think it’s a non-issue. My first reaction was to download Steam flatpak, but that version had issues so I installed it from the console, and you bet most newbies will copy/paste because nobody wants to learn how to use the console…
I love how people simply decided that he was complaining when he talked about that.
He literally said that that’s how he found out Manjaro uses a different package manager. Before that, he didn’t understand that different distros use different package managers. It’s wasn’t a complaint, it was him talking about his learning process.