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Is it doody or are you just technologically challenged? Based on your double-down I think I might know the answer.
I've been using computers and various operating systems since the early 90s. Trying to use linux today and most things still seem to require three tutorials to do basic things like install files.
It's just not easy to use. I could never recommend it to somebody who is new or even newer to computers.
There are flavours of linux that allow you to just click and install compatible file types. You can easily use Ubuntu your whole life without touching the terminal. Using the terminal allows you to do certain things much faster and easier but that is a skill you need to train if you want to use it.
If you are however talking about trying to run an originally windows native game in linux, then that might turn out to be an advanced problem. So you need to be patient and likely try couple different solutions (starting with the most recent dated one and paying attention to version numbers etc). It might even turn out to be impossible. That is an inescapable consequence of using a non main stream OS, not a problem of the OS itself. But given how the gaming world is shifting to linux, that might change in future and windows users (if any) might start complaining about how hard it is to port games to windows.
my grandma uses it just fine...
It is though? Is the bar so low that simply having to read, comprehend and follow instructions is disqualifying?
Maybe you need to abandon desktop computing and go purchase an iPad
You forgot having to be flexible enough to not have any particular workflow that works for you personally. Linux is great if you don't need to use anything that doesn't have a comparable equivalent.
Another reason not to like linux, the douchebag holier than though user base.
but you're the one in here acting like a holier than thou douchebag
But didn't you learn to use your your favourite OS at one point in your life?? How is that any different? Did you never learn a single thing from someone else?
You have to learn to ride a bike and drive a car. Are those crap vehicles too? It's not "holier than thou," when your argument is full of holes (hehe).
If you're using vague, borderline nonsensical phrases like "install files" when trying to find out how to do things that might go some way towards explaining it.
@Linktank @OR3X Wow, you're rubbish.
Good one.