• AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

    Not for a newbie who wants to learn. Arch is actually not difficult at all, just time consuming.

    Yeah but that is an issue. It’s perfectly legitimate to want stuff to just work and get to what I want to do.

    You kinda implying I have a character defect for “not wanting to learn” lol. Humanity actually needs an easy to use open operating system.

    Also I assume most of the reasons for why an OS does the things they way it does is tech debt lol.

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      10 hours ago

      No I didn’t mean it that way. Ok, I’ll put it in other words. Certain people have an interest in specific things. I am interested in how Linux works, but I dont care how my car works, or how politics works. It’s just a personal instinct what we like.

      And I meant that for people with my interest, arch is great. Its absolutely wrong for more than 99% of humans. But some likes it.

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      11 hours ago

      Humanity actually needs an easy to use open operating system.

      Humanity already has Linux, and it’s taken over pretty much every computing sector.

      Does it have to be “easy”? I think that’s a matter for the desktop interfaces and whoever is choosing to support them, not Linux itself.

      An OS is serious business and requires a certain level of savvy from its contributors. And conversely people who are not contributors should not shape its development.

      Besides, people who aren’t computer-savvy aren’t going to turn savvy just because of an easy installer. If you cater to the lowest common denominator you’d just be dragging the whole thing down.

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        10 hours ago

        If you don’t care about desktop adoption and the synergy effect on the overall desktop software, then no, it doesn’t have to be easy lol. All right then, keep your secrets.

        I do think certain “elitist” attitudes bleed into the technical decision making. Programmers tend to see the beauty in the system architecture and it becomes it’s own value.

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          10 hours ago

          Yes and architects tends to see beauty in buildings, gardeners in gardens, chefs in cooking.