You are in an environment where the downvote button exists as a self-validation/relief method rather than flagging off-topic/unrelated/low-effort/etc content as “bad”.

The majority are simpletons which (also) love simple stuff. That’s why.

One word:

Recall.

Orange pi zero 3 is arm-based and can be really viable for daily usage if you are into tinkering.

“I don’t value my time. I value my braincells.”

– Me, every time someone says the “…value your time” argument.

In a nutshell,

Zorin > Ubuntu > Debian > Arch, while (always) pestering google about trivial stuff, “How do I install something on Linux?” – “Oh look! A package manager! Which package manager is the best?” – “Distros have their specific packages? Cool!”, etc.

Just tell him, “Give Linux another shot when you are bored.”.

t. Used to be a Windows tryhard w/ baby duck syndrome, told myself exactly this. Took me a while, but I became a penguin a couple years after.

Quite a controversial take, but I think dietpi is a very solid choice, even for x86 PCs.

Download Ubuntu 24.04

Found the Windows poser.

Nah, the average “just werks” user won’t leave Windows even if it took money out of its credit card.

This is simply perfect, and masterfully done. Thank you very much, I’ll definitely use this.

Looks fun and very intuitive. Thanks for sharing!

Yeah… I’d rather spend some time doing those manually and not risk losing money (or even worse) because of a mere couple seconds less on the internet.

Call me a conspirator or whatever you want, but this seems like a “under-the-carpet” cope – “I can’t/won’t bother learning how to configure Linux, so I’ll throw a fit, raise a baseless assumption about it and move on to my safe bubble, i.e Winblows.”. Because even if it does have lack of better options for battery – it does have lots of user control. Which you should prioritize over being “spoonfed” by the system. Specially in times like these that anyone can track your device even if it is turned off thanks to bluetooth.

Why not? It’s simple, lightweight, has a lot of interesting commands that fills its respective niche really well (btop, for instance) and (the best of all) it doesn’t explode my PC everytime I run such commands.

My “rite of passage” to the magical world of GNU/Linux was… well… boredom. My Windows install was run fresh, with TCPOptimizer, with some things removed out of its core… until I took the decision of “trying to figure out how to use Linux even if it means losing my sanity.”

…and here we are. Sanity is still intact tho…

…I think. :^)

“Not exactly Linux”, but FreeBSD. Gave it a couple tries but gave up when I realized its minimalism is a placebo at best and its “super security features” can (also) be achieved on any other standard Linux distribution.

Yes officer, this heretic right here.

When folks will stop with the “If Linux won’t become another Windows, it’ll fail” mentality? Linux is not Winblows – and we really mean it. To “increase adoption” users need to acknowledge (only) this – that both Windows and Linux differs from one another and that won’t change in any time soon.

Asides from “ew installing Winblows stuff in my distro ewwww” that will be a gamechanger if they do it right.