• emax_gomax@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Well installing it. That alone requires a challenge most folks probably couldn’t overcome easily. People are accustomed to just getting a computer with a working os on it. Changing that os would be pretty hard for them.

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      2 months ago

      And let’s be real, you at least need a degree of tech savvy to deal with the inevitable issues that will come up. Even on the simplest distro.

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        2 months ago

        IDK, only times when I broke things on Debian were when I made the unwise decisions to do things I don’t fully understand (that doesn’t really happen now). And my elderly mom uses Mint with less problems than she did Windows.

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      2 months ago

      Depending on the distro, its generally no harder than windows… infact it probably easier since you dont have to go make an MS account.