In this analogy, no car dealer sells a Linux car and you’d have to rip out the engine yourself at home if you wanted one.
That’s the perceived barrier to entry.
I hate that argument so much. It’s like picturing me incapable of choosing a car because I know nothing about them.
“Why did you buy that garbage?” “It was the first vehicle at the first car dealer I found.”
IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Gerudo@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Don’t mention the hundred different engines out there, along with somethings you can do with one but not the other, so you have to research all of them. Also, you may have to install more stuff to get the engine to do other things you’re used to as well.
TheBat@lemmy.world [bot] 5 days ago
Good luck changing OS on every user’s laptop in a Fortune500 organization to Linux and then managing policies for them.
Dungrad@feddit.org 4 days ago
I worked for F500 and didn’t touch Windows once.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
If you go to different car dealers you find different cars. If you go to different computer shops you find Windows computers, Macs and Chromebooks. Macs are very expensive and Chromebooks are very limited, so you buy a Windows machine. People don’t even know what Linux is, and you can’t really blame them. They just want a machine to do everyday stuff with, and not to have to invest too much time or money in finding one.
Dungrad@feddit.org 5 days ago
I get that part. But then we have to do better. We can’t just stand there and be like: “It is what it is.” And with “we” I mean society as a whole: manufacturers, users, educators, governments (tbh, it is astonishingly weird that it is legal to force ship literal spyware with bought hardware), floss community etc.