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Why don't more people use Linux? - DHH
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Thank you! I'm a staunch believer that most of you don't think about how much prior knowledge you need just to be able to use Linux, let alone not break things.
When we started, none of us had any prior knowledge and quite frankly, if it broke all the time none of us would have stuck with it. It's the same for people when they started with Windows or Mac OS
At the same time I think most people don't think about how much prior knowledge you need to just be able to use Windows or Mac. And for someone without ANY prior knowledge all of them are the same.
Story time, my MiL is a zero when it gets to computer literacy, to the point that every week I had to solve something for her. Eventually I gave her a laptop with Linux in it to make it easier for me to do support, and to my surprise she had lots of problems the first months when setting things up and until learning the ropes, but afterwards there were almost no problems.
The thing is that people have a lot of Windows knowledge, so when they try Linux they expect it to be Windows and get frustrated when it's not.