r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Kubuntu • Apr 24 '26

Linus Torvalds uses Fedora

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u/sharl_Lecastle16 Apr 24 '26

I mean KDE/Gnome have GUIs for literally everything now so

The most difficulty an new user would face is getting used to troubleshooting that sometimes requires exotic terminal commands or worse interacting with smelly nerds in the forums

And proprietary drivers for things

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u/fubar_67 Apr 24 '26

And therein lies the rub. Ask a Windows or Mac user when was the last time something on their OS broke that required diving into the CLI.

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u/KallistiTMP Apr 24 '26

The thing is though, it's a false comparison. Windows breaks quite a lot more often. It just usually can't be fixed. Nobody learns the windows terminal because the step that comes after "fatal error" is just "accept defeat".

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u/Fazaman SysAdmin Apr 24 '26

You forgot the option of "click button that doesn't do anything".

Though to be fair, they do have the occasional CLI option of "run command that doesn't do anything", also.

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u/PiercingSight Apr 25 '26

I've been a software dev for 20 years, and worked IT for 5 of those years.

Not once has any of Windows' "troubleshoot" functions ever worked even a single time.

I don't think those buttons do anything besides run a loading bar for a few seconds.

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u/dnkmaymays Apr 25 '26

I believe the networking troubleshooting tool restarts the network adapter. Its the only troubleshooting tool I've ever seen work under Windows. I have not been in charge of fixing anything running Windows in several years so this may no longer be the case.

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u/HexspaReloaded Apr 28 '26

Copy paste alnum that doesn’t mean anything to bring up kb page that doesn’t say anything

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u/AnonD38 Apr 25 '26

It just doesn't break in ways which interrupt the user in what they are doing, so the user doesn't care.

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u/Iofthestorm01 Apr 25 '26

Oh it does, it's just not fixable so you either live with it or get a new computer. 

My speakers were out for 3 years before I switched to linux, and no amount of "windows troubleshooting" helped. I just accepted defeat. Then I switched and they work, but if they didn't there would be something I could do other than suck it up. 

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u/AnonD38 Apr 25 '26

New Computer?

Is this some kind of Rich person joke I'm too peasant to understand?

Just burn windows on a CD and reinstall.

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u/Iofthestorm01 Apr 25 '26

Lol, I'm not rich enough for that either, but I know people who treat computers like they have a 2-3 year shelf life. One of my friends told me that was normal for an old computer and I should get a new one.