• AProfessional@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t do tech support but I can’t relate at all.

    Windows is consistently the lowest quality software I interact with and Linux (Fedora) works out to be more reliable, simple, and often better featured.

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      1 year ago

      Transition costs are massive though. Just like implementing any significant change in anyone’s life, it’s impossible for a technically illiterate person to change to linux.

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        1 year ago

        I agree with you but you also aren’t doing them favors. Windows is not a secure or reliable platform.

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          1 year ago

          But it is, it’s very reliable. So long as users don’t install anything, and there’s a quality paid antivirus solution and windows 11 gets blocked then very little will affect these installs.

          As for security? Who cares. They’re checking email and using Facebook. They’re not running critical software, and as for reliability… Let me tell ya from an admin standpoint Linux is far from reliable, there’s a very good reason companies pay money for support.

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            So long as users don’t install anything

            Yeah, no shit sherlock, if you don’t use YOUR computer, it’s never going to break.

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              Trick is to try live off live USB mode, learn from old textbooks, pen and notepads and a phone with less than 1gb data, to record stuff. Now we call it hard mode, but really it’s “just the norms” haha

              You get really crap at typing keywords and Google image search and really good at looking through indexes and table of contents for the right chapter.