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pc86last Tuesday at 12:15 PM3 repliesview on HN

> you have a product that is predatory towards you and you refuse to change your ways.

And honestly it seems like you refuse to learn even the smallest bit about human nature.

Very, very few people want to "learn" how to use their computer. Walk into a room of 100 graphic designers who have spend the last 20 years using Photoshop exclusively and put GIMP in front of them and and at least 98 of them are going to say what the hell is wrong with you, they have work to do, take this uncanny valley garbage and get out of here.

I'm typing this on a System76 laptop right now but I understand expecting people to use Linux writ large is ridiculous.


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prathamtharwanilast Tuesday at 12:39 PM

Everybody "learns" how to use a computer. It's just a question of what they learn first.

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noisy_boylast Tuesday at 12:53 PM

I mean I kinda agree on what you are saying but then it logically follows that if you don't want to try out alternatives, don't want to push your government to enact better laws, don't want to spend time taking them to small claims court - basically don't want to do anything but suffer - then just suffer.

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mapontoseventhslast Tuesday at 1:28 PM

> Very, very few people want to "learn" how to use their computer.

I see this point being missed over and over again in this thread. To people like you and I the computer is often the entire point. To normal people it's a tool. It exists to get the job done so they can move onto something else.

The solution that requires the least effort is objectively the best solution. Most of the time that still means Windows, and it won't change until the required level of effort changes.

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