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juujian parent
With three or four major GUIs out there, that's a bit of a sweeping statement, no? What's the negative that applies to all distros?
jonfw
Two negatives that are actively made worse by the the fact that there are a variety of distros-

1. Nothing is googleable. People have to google how to do things like adjust the layout of external monitors, and it's significantly harder to do that on linux.

2. There are a lot of different ways to install applications, and different options are available depending on which distro or application you're targeting

anon7000
1. What? It works nearly the same way as Mac or windows? Just a section in the settings app

2. Most distros have an App Store that’s easy to find these days. Works great for non-cli tools

jitl
Distro app stores work fine for things in the distro app store, at whatever version the distro provides.

It's like 900x easier to install random software you find about online on a Mac (there's zip containing the .app directory, done), and about 10x easier to install random software on Windows (they give you a .exe you double click, click next a few times, done). Versus Linux where you look at a list of different file types, consider the differences between a .deb, .rpm, figure out if it should come from Flathub, deal with enabling unverified Flathub packages, possibly disable a Flathub package from your distro that sucks and overrides the maintainer's package, etc. See things like https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1htu87i/it_to...

prmoustache
Newest generations are familiar with using app stores. That is what Gnome Software and KDE discover provides. People don't even have to think flatpak or package really.

I doubt much people are interested in googling apps, finding exe and clicking 5 or 6 times a "next" button in 2025.

jitl
People want to use Spotify, probably the most popular music service, but it’s hard to install on different Linux distros. Is it in your distro app store? It wasn’t in Mint’s store gui as of 6 months ago. It took 40 minutes for joe random on Reddit to figure out.
prmoustache
It is in flathub so available on any app manager that supports flatpaks and provide flathub by default.

I know some distros hide by defaults repos and flatpaks with non free software but even then there are many open source music software that support streaming from spotify and advertize it.

all2
Probably, yes. A lot is plug and play, but not all.

Having set one parent up on Mint, I can say categorically that it is still a bit of a config nightmare.

subjectsigma
No matter what I say someone will respond with “Oh but that got fixed in X” / “You’re doing it wrong” / “You have the wrong hardware” / “Your opinions suck” / “Works on my machine” / “Get better at Linux” / etc. I’m just going to stick with Windows for pleasure, macOS for work, and Linux for servers. That’s what I like and that’s what has been working for me.

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