• LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    22 hours ago

    A very solvable problem with window tiling managers. There’s unironically thousands of them.

    Linux just honestly might not be for you if a terminal is an insurmountable obstacle 🤷‍♀️ it’s how you interact with the basics of your computer. It’s worth ripping that bandaid off and getting over your fear of term imo. I honestly prefer software I can just run from the terminal.

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      12 hours ago

      I don’t want thousands of solutions. I need 1 that works out of the box for the OS I just installed. Also, why are there thousands of tiling solutions? How do I parse through all of them to know which one to install? Out of the thousand of solutions, which one will become abandonware or already abandoned?

      I don’t disagree with you. I’m 100% onboard with your assessment on someone like me. A normie.

      The argument here is that this meme suggests that Linux wasn’t ready for normies 15 years ago and is ready now(2025). My argument is it is not. Normies do not use terminal. We want intuitive UX. We want a smart decision tree of options we can take. What we don’t want is entering a script in terminal that could fail because we forgot a dash or transcribe a forward slash to a backslash.

      Also, what you consider “basic” is relative. Your knowledge of computers is vastly different across the world.

      I had a forum member on Reddit call me an idiot because I didn’t know what sudo was. Does that make me “basic”?