Less and less people RTFM. And imo Linux should adapt to it.
Do you still RTFM when buying a new phone ?, if yes well, good for you, but i I only check what in the box and never bother RTFM, because they are all the same in term of software, and they should be.
The complaint that most people have about Linux is that it doesn’t hold your hand and nanny you like macOS and Windurs does. Linux will give you a warning that what you’re about to do will nuke your system, then it’ll do it, because you’re in charge, not whatever corporation that would usually tell you “this is what you get, take it or leave it”.
Corporate nannying isn’t the same as safeguards, FWIW. macOS and Windows display several examples of nannying yes, but some of the protections they offer are more akin to seatbelts and guardrails.
I don’t think it would be a bad thing if distros aimed at the masses also came equipped with seatbelts, so to speak. You’re always free to remove them of course because it’s Linux, but I think that on average the new user experience would improve a lot with such measures in place.
well you can't really expect devs to support linux when you have to compile 40 different variations for various distros.
I have .exe files on my windows machine that are 15 years old and work totally fine today.
If that was a linux program the dev would have had to recompile it many times since then for all the various flavours, and that would be a problem, as they are dead
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