The indoctrination of windows is extreme. Windows is just as hard as linux, harder even with all the layers of obscurity.

And yet… linux is hard, and users decry RTFM as “not growing the userbase”

  • EmoPolarbear@lemmy.caEnglish
    881·
    7 days ago

    The best is when people tell you to RTFM and the information you need just straight up isn’t there.

      • EmoPolarbear@lemmy.caEnglish
        301·
        7 days ago

        Or “if you’re having trouble there is no manual, FAQ, or wiki, just join our discord troubleshooting channel” vomit

        • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          71·
          7 days ago

          And after hours of troubleshooting, you give in and join the Discord where you’re promptly ignored.

          Or if you’re really lucky, people are willing to help, so you spend hours more troubleshooting, often repeating many of the same steps, only for all of them to give up too. (As was my experience when I tried to switch to Linux Mint.)

            • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              7 days ago

              Play audio through my mobo’s built-in 3.5mm jack (without a significant delay). For whatever reason, Mint just really didn’t like my mobo, and no one was able to figure it out.

              • moomoomoo309@programming.devEnglish
                3·
                5 days ago

                Oh, I know this one! Make sure you’re using pipewire and use HDAJackRetask. You can reassign the ports to whatever, you can even swap mic and headphone if you want.

    • Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      123·
      7 days ago

      It’s the same way you gotta ask if they turned it off and on again. Too many don’t even look up the manual, now yes. Some hostility is just plain hostility, but the phrase is there for a good reason.