• shalafi@lemmy.world
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        14 hours ago

        Outside of my tech career, I’ve never met a human that knows the word “Linux”. I don’t mean how it works, I mean they’ve never heard the word. Those same people don’t know what an operating system is. “Uh, is that like Apple?”

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      22 hours ago

      If you’re in a place where that opinion is unpopular you may not be in the real world.

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          22 hours ago

          It’s just that around my part of the world, not actually doing it is way more common than not thinking you probably should be doing it.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      21 hours ago

      I’ve actually converted multiple family members to Linux, but it does take patience to work with them ensuring they can do everything they currently do