My intention linking this is not to provoke someone or hurt feelings, moreover to show what we as community or maintainer need to fix.
Regardless how you see it, there is some truth in it, even if I personally disagree with most mentioned points ignoring that Android already runs on 1 Billion devices which is basically Linux…
This blog post is painful reading by someone who seems to have trouble holding a point together (and I’m not trying to be mean about it, it can be a hard thing to do). Their last paragraph of Manjaro, Arch, the AUR sounds mostly like a dog barking.
This person sounds like they’ve played around with a few distros, have got caught up in forum nonsense rather than read appropriate and official guides (I think some of the other commenters here have touched on that end of it), and really not approached many, if any, of their situations from the perspective of the target audience of their blog post (non-technical newbie to Linux, right?).
He’s critical in his Mastodon posts about criticism about his post because people are missing the point, but I still don’t think this user has ever tried to approach things from that target audience.
People do wind up hearing about the newbie friendly distros - Ubuntu should ‘just work’ on nearly any hardware, including Nvidia-driven systems, no?
If more companies that sold computers would put Linux on them and support it, things could change dramatically. In the meantime, hopefully we can guide new users to appropriate places.
(Nothing posted in here suggests I believe Linux is the best OS for all situations - if we could get an alternative to Adobe, that’d be great, k? heh)
even manjaro ‘just works’. I know I’ve been using Linux in various forms for the last 20 years so I may be a bit biased but the installer is just as simple as Ubuntu or windows. plus it’s been extremely stable even running the testing repos.
not to mention kde plasma is extremely user friendly.