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0 pointsabraham7y ago0 comments

Chrome OS is basically just a browser so anyone who has been on the internet is pretty comfortable on it.

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Lubuntu is just as user friendly and comes pre-installed with all of the things one would expect, like a browser and media player and word processing software.

There's an app store and browser add ons work well.

The hardest thing for a casual user to learn would be "sudo apt-get install" and then guessing what the package name is that they might want to download, like vlcplayer or java

matt20007y ago

"The hardest thing for a casual user to learn would be "sudo apt-get install" and then guessing what the package name is that they might want to download, like vlcplayer or java"

Everything you said in this sentence is a deal breaker for a casual user, and a terrible user experience in general.

z_open7y ago

Graphical package managers exist now.

803867y ago

My roommate (about average technical literacy) tried getting a $100 laptop and putting Lubuntu on it, and ended up selling it because he couldn't figure out Linux and couldn't get any good games on it.

anoncoward1117y ago

Like TF2? Yeah, a lot of games have been bloated. But there's always Nexuiz and Xonotic which have cool little communities.

Linux takes time. Life is finicky. But for the average Thai person or Vietnamese living on $300 a month, a $100 investment is more palatable than $600

z_open7y ago

Don't the pre-installed ones come with a graphical package manager?

anoncoward1117y ago

Yeah and like I find it really hard to believe that a casual user who really doesn't want to spend $600 on a chromebook can learn how to copy paste basic command line stuff on the very rare occasion that what they need isn't available graphically

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anoncoward1117y ago

Lubuntu is just as user friendly and comes pre-installed with all of the things one would expect, like a browser and media player and word processing software.

There's an app store and browser add ons work well.

The hardest thing for a casual user to learn would be "sudo apt-get install" and then guessing what the package name is that they might want to download, like vlcplayer or java

matt20007y ago

"The hardest thing for a casual user to learn would be "sudo apt-get install" and then guessing what the package name is that they might want to download, like vlcplayer or java"

Everything you said in this sentence is a deal breaker for a casual user, and a terrible user experience in general.

z_open7y ago

Graphical package managers exist now.

803867y ago

anoncoward1117y ago

Like TF2? Yeah, a lot of games have been bloated. But there's always Nexuiz and Xonotic which have cool little communities.

Linux takes time. Life is finicky. But for the average Thai person or Vietnamese living on $300 a month, a $100 investment is more palatable than $600

z_open7y ago

Don't the pre-installed ones come with a graphical package manager?

anoncoward1117y ago

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse