But the majority of users don’t have them installed. Plus Google is pushing Manifest v3 with intent. They aren’t content with most. They want everyone to stop using them.
Ok. Look at it the other way. The person who can lift the heavy thing may not be able to continue to lift the heavy thing if they use the forklift all the time and don’t ever train their muscles. Which is what the article is pointing out. Doing the task by hand re-enforces knowledge and skill. Over-reliance on a tool is a well known phenomenon.
I think you’re missing the forest for the trees here because the point is, you’re capable of doing the task, just not doing it in the same amount of time as a computer.
You chose a poor analogy to explain your POV. I’m pointing out the flaw in it.
You use a forklift to do things you physically can’t do. This is a bad analogy. Even if you never used a forklift at all you’d still likely not have the muscle capacity to lift 500+ lbs pallets all day. You certainly couldn’t just lift a tonne.
And you wouldn’t use a forklift to increase your muscle tone, or build muscle.
I don’t know how likely the second one is. But both can be true.
I feel like you have a reading comprehension problem and I’m over it. If you don’t think there’s a limit to the number of used (affordable) home PC’s in this economy with literally everything that’s going on with new computer prices, component prices etc then you are not paying attention.
I don’t know if you chose to single me about specifically because you didn’t like that me and Op agree about some of the things they said or what, but I’m not here for it.
You flashed right past the meat of what I was saying to quibble about this “being linux’s” fault when that literally wasn’t the point. Op isn’t blaming Linux and neither am I. Don’t bother to reply if you’re not going to read to understand. I don’t care what you have to say if you’re just here to be combative.
The average person. I’m going to repeat that because apparently you missed it. The average person isn’t buying used computers from enterprise resellers.
A new entry level Thinkpad from Lenovo is $935.10 on Lenovo’s website right now and it comes with copilot. Buying used is a crapshoot because lots of those surplus or used business ones are being resold without RAM or in some cases Harddrives, which will obvious drive up the cost and that supply will be finite going forward as the RAM and components shortages continue. You don’t even have to take my word for it.
Here is a guy who was salvaging business class laptops, refurbishing them and installing Linux to sell them to people who can’t afford the new tech price increases and even he has been forced to give up doing that.
It’s not about Linux not being supported. It’s about barrier to entry.
My mother is not buying and installing RAM. My mother would not know what to do if she had driver issues on Linux.
And where with windows there’s an assumption that you don’t know anything about anything so guides with step by step instructions exist, with Linux, a lot of the time you’ll get some lackluster instructions that assume you have a set amount of knowledge already.
So either you didn’t read everything I said, and you’re just responding to what you think I meant, or alternatively you wrong about what can be fixed by buying thinkpads.
Valve is one of the very few “tech” companies that are actually offering a Linux distribution stock and working with other devs to make sure things work not just for their hardware but for other companies that want to offer such hardware with Linux installed or as an option. Because they are mainstream they are making a lot of normies aware there’s another option beside Microsoft and windows. This is a good thing on all counts. I do think other companies need to pick up the baton though.
Pinebook is an outlier in a market that is completely dominated by windows hardware and it’s shitty.
I see what you mean and as someone who owns a surface pro collecting dust they’re still working towards putting Linux on, I understand the barrier to entry that a normal computer user like my mother would face in the event that they needed to do this. You are correct about it being similar to loading roms on Android phones or tablets during the early 2000’s, and even though there are a lot of reputable repos and flavors of Linux to choose from, I can see your point about the dwindling number of computers that either come with Linux out of the box, let you choose to buy without an operating system, or don’t require you to load up windows to download that necessary bootable USB.
And you’re right about buying used hardware. That hardware is dwindling in stock and even if it wasn’t it’ll only operate for so long without needing repairs.
Linux users (as someone who’s newer to Linux) very often talk over the heads of the people they talk to online, assuming a certain level of knowledge that’s absolutely not there for a normal person. Some of us need step by step instructions and a lot of the solutions I see here and other forums just throw out a bunch of jargon as a solution without a guide.
We need guides, people. Or at the very least something we can Google.
But we also need hardware that’s reasonable and affordable which is a PITA now that AI has just taken over the consumer hardware space and pushed it to the back burner.
There’s absolutely a reason that people are excited about Valve popularizing hardware that comes stock with Linux. I still don’t have a driver for the fingerprint reader on my ROG Ally X and I can only imagine the problems when the laptop or computer you can afford isn’t one targeted by a dev to be compatible.
Just because most things work doesn’t mean everything works as it should. There will absolutely be headaches a normie computer user will have no idea how to fix.
It absolutely does not have misgivings. It’s auto complete.