Typical Linux distributions are almost objectively harder to use than Android. I'd be surprised if anyone really disagrees with this. When someone complains about Linux being hard to use, it's the POSIX-based Linux distributions that must support arbitrary hardware (often poorly so) that they refer to. I don't need to care about installing NVidia drivers and whether they're compatible with EFI handover when I buy an Android phone.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Typical Linux distributions are almost objectively harder to use than Android

So are Windows and macOS.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sorry I don't follow your point.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 4 points 1 day ago

I think they meant that the comparison should be between desktop OSes.

The fact that the meme mentions desktop and phone OSes is probably because one is likely to use both.

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

You do need to worry about whether or not your phone is locked to a specific carrier and if its the carrier you want to use the phone with. or, if its a phone you want to bring to another network, you have to figure our if you need to argue with your current carrier to get it unlocked.

To piggyback off this, Windows is also "harder" than Android. You need to reinstall Windows due to an update fuckup? You tried building your own PC? Well, you either fork.over $120 for an installation media, or you have to create your own, then learn how to boot into the BIOS to boot from that media, then you need to scour the internet for not only your Nvidia driver, but your audio driver, WiFi driver, integrated graphics driver (if you have and want to use an IGPU) and possibly motherboard drivers if your mobo has some odd implementation that requires a driver for USB 3.1 to work properly.

None of these operating systems are "harder" than another. You are just used to one over the other. You don't use your automatic transmission car skills trying to drive a manual transmission, unless your goal is to crash and burn.

[–] Encephalotrocity@feddit.online 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You do need to worry about whether or not your phone is locked to a specific carrier and if its the carrier you want to use the phone with

Laughs in Canadian

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

please let me in I beg of thee

[–] ramasses@social.ozymandias.club 2 points 1 day ago

Cries in us, its horrible

[–] variablenine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mass🪦

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

massgrave proves my point. The user has to go out of their way to find and run that script.

Linux would just work ootb. No activation needed. Ergo; Linux is easier than Windows.

It's poor form to say an apple tastes worse than an orange because its purely opinion. Theres no fact. I was trying to show the original reply is nonsensical, because for some, Android is harder than Linux. Android may not be what someone is used to.