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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    He concluded a regular user wouldn’t read that message, which I find not believable

    Oh boy I’ve worked with IT professionals like that. Something unexpected happens and they completely fail to read or understand what text they’re presented with. This is especially common with those not comfortable in a shell

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      7 days ago

      Sure – but would they then respond to a prompt reading…

      And then typing out that full exact phrase? I might do that, but only expecting/understanding that I may fuck my OS.

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        7 days ago

        There’s a reason windows flatly refuses to do some things no matter how much you may want to. It’s people that would do exactly that without any thought or hesitation.

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          I prefer a system that warms me but lets me do what I want with safeguards. But I don’t buy for a second that many people would do this dumb shit. It requires too much effort for one.

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            7 days ago

            I too prefer that. However, I also know there is a large subset of computer users that just want their magic box to work and I don’t think it would be a bad thing if there was a Linux distro they could use.

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              7 days ago

              Well it sounds like we want the same result, but I will submit there already are a few.

              I have seen people struggle with install wizards on windows… so basically if we set up some Ubuntu or a similar OS for many people, they’d be happy with it. People just aren’t that great when any speed bump comes up and that’s true on windows also.