My experience with Lemmy feels like my experience with Linux. I’m a nerd at heart and have played with a thousand variants of Linux over the decades. But as much as Linux is sold as the next Windows/MacOS, it never gets to that level. Trying to get people to understand the quirks of Linux (and why they are “better”) has been an act in futility. Linux just isn’t user-friendly, no matter the variant.

I see so many posts of people trying to understand what Lemmy is, what an instance is, why usernames are not unique (unless you include the server name - like email), etc. I just see it all as a huge hurdle to overcoming Reddit.

I’d be thrilled to be wrong.

  • knowncarbage@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    2 years ago

    I love Linux, been using it daily for well over a decade but simple stuff people take for granted like gaming, drivers, wi-fi, touchpads, secureboot, Adobe, Office, printing and device syncing alongside the ever ongoing dependency hell can be an issue for some.

    I don’t think I’ve met anyone else in meatspace who uses Linux as a desktop or laptop. Installing a novel OS isn’t something people tend to do and comes with risks.

    The worry is that Lemmy is then not so much a replacemt for Reddit and more of replacement for r/Linux and related subs.

    Whilst it’s nice to go online and tell people how amazing and easy I’m finding it is running Gentoo on old hardware with public binhosts I would also like access to a majority of communities who won’t know what that means.

    • randomguy2323@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Well yeah you are right I have two computers one with windows for gaming and the other one for Linux. I daily drive Linux and I have never met no one that uses Linux. Just a developer.

      I really like how Linux is right now , slowly progressing to become better for the users.

      • knowncarbage@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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        2 years ago

        I think Linux is great and doing just fine, I suppose my concern for Lemmy is that whilst I’m happy for my OS to be pretty much a community of techies I’d prefer my social media feed to be a little more varied.

        When there’s far more posts about what window manager you use as opposed to pictures of cute cats there’s an imbalance in the force. I suspect I’ve further upset this balance by arriving on Lemmy and talking about Gentoo :)