Comment Re:No. (Score 1) 224
Your rant sounds like that made by a typical MS Fanboy (paid ones were called "Technical Evangelists". Remember them?) And claiming that Windows and Mac ask users to use the terminal only for the difficult problems is also ludicrous.
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I've used Linux since May 1, 1998, and I can't remember the last time I had to compile an app, a driver or the kernel. I started with RH5.0 and switched to SuSE 5.3 in Sept of 1998 because it featured KDE 1.0 beta. I used SuSE until Novell bought them and thought they could ignore the GPL. In 2009 I installed Kubuntu, because it features KDE/Plasma, and it was only in November of last year that I switched to KDE Neon User Edition because I wanted my plasma installation to be closer to the leading edge (not the bleeding edge). SuSE RPM's were available not only from SuSE but also from the website rpmbone. That's when I stopped compiling anything. Ubuntu introduced their distribution repository along with their distro in 2006. No compiling necessary. It's been that way for most distributions ever since. Those that do stray off the repository reservation usually download a tar or zip file and then expand it into a directory. Inside the main directory they issue make config, make and make install. No editors, no coding, All the compiling is automatic.
Ubuntu and its daughters have Discover and Muon as package managers, but experienced users, not because they have to but because they want to, open a terminal and issue "sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade". Why? Because it is easier and faster. My next door neighbor bought a new HP laptop three years ago and after a couple of months asked me to fix a problem he was having. I explained to him that I don't do Windows because a fix is never permanent, and he'd be calling me back in a while to fix it again. I told him I would support him if he let me put Linux on his machine. After I showed him my installation and he realized that it is just using the keyboard and mouse the same as it is in Windows he let me put on Kubuntu 18.04LTS. In three years he's called me twice. Once to fix a browser difficulty (he was misunderstanding how to use it) and once to fix a printer issue. Neither of those two issues were Linux related. I'm 80. I retired in 2008, 14 years ago. A lot of my friends my age, or there about, had similar problems that plagued my retired banker neighbor. I made the same deal with them and for about a decade I was supporting about 20 Linux users, give or take 5, until death took its toll.
Most Linux users are like my friends and neighbors. All they know is the keyboard and mouse. Running Windows or Linux most used FireFox and OpenOffice, Many WinXX users would pay cash to take their problems to a computer tech shop to be fixed, usually, WInXX was reinstalled because that is how tech people make the most money in the easiest way. They make more money if they are asked to recover the owner's data.
From the first day I replace Win95 with RH5.0 on May 1, 1998, I never had my Linux system fail to boot or to crash doing standard stuff. I do a LOT of experimentation on my laptop. In 2016, I adopted BTRFS as my root file system. If I, for example, install Python3 environments and, as it did in one instance, Anaconda messed up the local site repository of modules, it took me less than 3 minutes to roll back to an archival snapshot and reboot into a pristine system. From a cold boot I get a working desktop in 6 to 12 seconds, depending on which services I have loading at boot.
For the last 5 years about 15 of my favorite apps are AppImages. No compiling, Just drop the download into a directory of your choice and mark it executable. Click on it and it runs. To "uninstall" it, you simply delete the AppImage. Aside from a local config file an AppImage never touches your system. Nice. Clean. And no snap or flatpak service always running in the background.