I just bought a new laptop that presumably had Win 11 on it. I just booted onto a USB stick and installed Linux (Kubuntu) over it. Next is to use Gparted to wipe any recovery partition and get the wasted space back.

What, no black hoodie? I thought all hackers had to wear a hoodie to hack

Just for historical info: This has been available in Gimp for a very long time. It was there for several years before Adobe copied it, and added it to Photoshop. This sort of thing tends to get forgotten.

Many will already have a running Windows system. And running an app is an every day task for people not experienced in IT matters. Setting up and booting into a live image involves several steps completely foreign to many people. Maybe not to you. But there is a massive difference. These things matter if you’ve never done it before. Barriers like that are putting people off installing Linux.

Lets hope they can bring Transnistria in from the cold, now that Russia has stopped supplying them energy.

WUBI did it really well. It got a lot of people on to Linux.

It has been done before despite reasons.

Not for those who are not sure about Linux. Installing an app and launching it, is a familiar task and quick to do, to take a look. No need get a usb stick and do unfamiliar steps right just then.

Then if Linux looks good, and you want to keep it, now you have the motivation to sort out how to install it. It’s a different task.

Many people don’t do that, because they dont know what Linux looks and feels like. So they won’t install it.

WUBI did a good job of that.

Middle paste, like many features, can be used to increase productivity. It’s normal. A better question would be why doesn’t Windows have it? It makes no sense to dumb down Linux to the level of Windows, just when people are leaving Windows because the user experience is so bad. Sure, make it an option in Settings. So people can continue to use it if they want. But there are many things worth utilising to save clicks on both Windows and Linux. Get to know them, if you want to get on with things.

Yes I have no interest in having a browser in the way. But 2 things. Firstly CATIA in a browser is just the same CATIA running on a remote PC somewhere. It’s the same program. And secondly, as longvas the UI looks and works the same, with no delays, then it’ll be fine. Sure you can’t use it when your wifi or Internet is down or slow, or the provider has power or Internet issues. And your customer is not a military or super secrecy case. But its clearly expecting to find a market.

I use commercial CAD. CATIA for car bodies. There is no FOSS alternative that comes close for my work. But the light at the end of the tunnel is, many CAD systems, including CATIA, are going web based. So users just need a browser on any OS. And the back end can be what it wants.

As a non IT person I find Linux way better for installing software. The sort of apps non IT people use. The Software store has most of what I need. There rest I install the Windows way. From a website. Apps with a Linux version almost always detect and offer a Linux button to click to install. I wouldn’t know what to do if that didn’t work. Ditch that application I guess. My distros are pretty standard. Not hacked about. My apps are not too weird. I’ve been doing it this way for 14+ years. Never needed the CLI either.

Its nice to hear about even more ways that Gimp is better than Photoshop.

Constructive criticism is good. I hope you reported bugs. Just saying you hate it, or it sucks, says more about you than the software.

Because Linux had a choice of desktop environments to try out. What a playground.

My first peek was with Wubi. >2008 ish? Then Knoppix had a live boot. Then all the other live boots followed. Very important easy first step.

I’m now on Plasma, tweaked to suit me.

Ha ha. So funny… what’s ‘compile’?

I use Nextcloud for this. It has a sync app for the phone and PC. So photos, notes, documents, calendar and contacts. All immediately backed up and secure. It’s all available everywhere. And can be shared. Such as a gallery. I use a free hosted Nextcloud so no IT needed. And it’s cheap to up the storage amount.

Having a deadline for the end of combustion engines is intended to push big car business to put more effort into transitioning. If they drag their feet they will be left behind.

I too am very cautious of getting stuck with Linux. I try to be sure I’m not doing things the hard way. I have found easy distros and easy ways to do most things in Linux despite many people suggesting I do it the IT pro way that they do. Usually because they haven’t investigated easy ways for non IT users. They mean well, but don’t know about usability or if there us an easy way.

Sadly, big business, techies without imagination and community FOSS without enough capacity are the ones that control what is available. Nothing will suddenly change. Usability is way down the priority list.

That’s not necessarily so. There are all sorts of legacy reasons people give for making poor software. From lazy monopolies to programmers with little understanding of usability. To people without the big picture. It will change.