But irrelevant for most users. Azure can stay all it wants but we must be freed from the shackles of Microsoft Office

Who cares, they shouldnt have it or need it

Exactly. Navigating Windows is a skill. Navigating linux is a skill. Navigating Macos is a skill. This argument that linux in its current state is user unfriendly ignores that all operating systems are unfriendly, and my argument is that linux tends to be more intuitive because of learned mistakes from Windows and Macos.

People keep saying this, but windows and macos are not user friendly. Theyre user hostile. “No, you cant do that unless you perform a ritual.” “Want to download something? Spend 4 hours typing random terminal commands to maybe get a package manager thats out of date 9/10 times or good luck googling.” “Want to change where your taskbar is? Too bad.” “Want to do literally anything? Every setting is a coinflip between vibecoded settings app, windows 7 legacy menus, or windows xp legacy menus. The latter two work better (and the former is just the latter obfuscated) but are hidden in secret menus. Good luck!”

My 80 year old grandma has no issues at all with her CachyOS/kde/Limine installation, but i used to get calls every other weekend for her windows 11 laptop.

Also, if i need to do anything, i can just ssh into her computer without issue. Ill admit that quick assist is way better here, but the point is that i get significantly less calls because KDE is just intuitive.

Once. It takes time and energy once, because its a new thing. This is true of all new things. If you want to go to a new library, you have to learn the route or address, drive there, get a new card, and find the books/places things are. The dewey decimal system is the same, but no ones really using it and the help desk is likely in a different area.

So, with installing a new operating system, you need to know how to install an operating system, follow the instructions, and then use the operating system.

Its almost exactly the same effort. Some people will need to learn how to drive, or the bus route, or whatever, but thats expected.

The more you know about computers the more you realize its just magic rocks, and that magic, rocks.

Yeah but even then a VM isnt crazy terrible for those. I had a job where i was running my pc through 4 different vms before i could reach the users PC (which was running on a VM)

Also wine

Cachyos is Arch for people who want to use their computers

Arch is for people who yearn to control the parasympathetic nervous system with iron chains

Give it time…

Im trying to imagine what software is so obscure no one has updated it or ported to another distro, but is important and good enough that you use it for 70% of your comluter time.

Even (often, especily) extremely old programming languages and stuff are still maintained by someone

I imagine a lot of people have spiderwebs of dependancies and obscure abandoned projects that collect dust and eventually break everything. If you stick to maintained projects or learn anything about package management at all, youll likely have no issues ever.

I just type “yay” into terminal every month or so when im bored

My biggest problem with Arch over the last 3 years (after skill issues, of course) has been the roughly 2 days when some lib package was rewritten in Rust, breaking a bunch of depancies, so i had to rely on a flatpak.

My biggest problem with Ubuntu has been the 2 or 3 times Canonical decided to uninstall my wifi drivers on my headless server or obliterate my kernel or just decide randomly to never update a package again (even though theyve shipped said updates)

My issues with Arch have always been solvable in under and hour or my fault. My issues with Debian (specifically ubuntu) have been catastrophic.

Easy, dota 2 isnt fun

Arch is good if you know what youre doing or need a hobby. Cachyos is great if you want arch but want to do things other than troubleshoot your own mistakes

“Hammer to penis or steak” is less interesting than “Steak or lobster”

Anyways the answer is Steak, and a different steak if its for a server, and lobster (derogatory) if its for an important server