"Just use Linux" is much like "just ride a bike" or "just shop at a refill store" - accessing the non default option can be time consuming, expensive or unavailable locally. We need to recognise you need a certain degree of privilege to have the capacity to complicate your life voluntarily. We need to be trying to make the better, harder thing more accessible, not blaming people for not using it.
@afewbugs yeah, I like to use Linux. But I am working in an enterprise environment, when my company says all the computers have to have windows installed then "just use Linux" is not gonna magically make it appear on my device.
@tkinias @kyonshi @afewbugs I was trained in UNIX internals while working at AT&T in '85, so I fell on Linux with cries of joy when it became available. But I realize I have an odd perspective. And I'd never say 'just' about changing to Linux. Possibly "let me know if I can help, if you'd like to try it."
@elysegrasso
I only had about a decade of experience with various *nix (HP, IBM, SGI, Sun) in academic settings, but never as an admin. Lots of it on the admin side was totally new to me when I started running Linux at home, but I was really comfortable with the shell at that point (to the point that using the DOS CLI was painful, even then).
@kyonshi @afewbugs
@tkinias @kyonshi @afewbugs Things have changed so much. At the uni I'm just leaving they stopped everyone installing everything. There's a faffy process of applying for anything that they haven't approved. The IT team only know what they've been told.
They think they're making everything secure then use Google and lots of insecure practices. The knowledge is suprisingly poor. They constantly change everything owing to terrible decisions.