Lemmy is feeling like Linux, and that's bad. Is Lemmy doomed because of the abstract-ness of it? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by BloodSoakedDoilies@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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My experience with Lemmy feels like my experience with Linux. I'm a nerd at heart and have played with a thousand variants of Linux over the decades. But as much as Linux is sold as the next Windows/MacOS, it never gets to that level. Trying to get people to understand the quirks of Linux (and why they are "better") has been an act in futility. Linux just isn't user-friendly, no matter the variant.

I see so many posts of people trying to understand what Lemmy is, what an instance is, why usernames are not unique (unless you include the server name - like email), etc. I just see it all as a huge hurdle to overcoming Reddit.

I'd be thrilled to be wrong.

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[-] knowncarbage@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I love Linux, been using it daily for well over a decade but simple stuff people take for granted like gaming, drivers, wi-fi, touchpads, secureboot, Adobe, Office, printing and device syncing alongside the ever ongoing dependency hell can be an issue for some.

I don't think I've met anyone else in meatspace who uses Linux as a desktop or laptop. Installing a novel OS isn't something people tend to do and comes with risks.

The worry is that Lemmy is then not so much a replacemt for Reddit and more of replacement for r/Linux and related subs.

Whilst it's nice to go online and tell people how amazing and easy I'm finding it is running Gentoo on old hardware with public binhosts I would also like access to a majority of communities who won't know what that means.

this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023

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