Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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Its so ugly I can’t bear to look at it.
stupid sexy KDE…!
“Most cases” is doing most of the heavy lifting here. You’re clearly not like most people since you have specific aesthetic standards. Most people don’t care as long as it doesn’t look like it came from 1993.
You clearly care, and that’s why you should run something more specific. Maybe you want it to look cool out of the box, or maybe you want to configure it to your heart’s content. There are different distros for both audiences. Both of whom are definitely not like most people.
I think if the goal is to get “most people” to switch to Linux from a modern, commercial OS, then suggesting they use an OS that looks like it’s from 2001 is not going to give them a great feeling about the switch. “Most people” aka normies do make decisions on aesthetics alone.
That's important for the initial steps, but none of that really matters if normies can't get normal everyday stuff done. Those kinds of problems are usually related to people not being familiar with a different UI or the way things work. Often, the problems are also caused by software compatibility or availability. Even if the distro looks gorgeous, but using it causes headaches, normies will switch back.
All of these issues act as barriers that prevent most people from sticking with Linux. Those who hate big tech with a burning passion are willing to tolerate such inconveniences, but must people aren't.