Because user-friendly means that even a tech-noob can easily set it up and use it right away without much researching.
If an OS requires ANY AMOUNT of command line, you have lost about half the population.
If an OS asks any remotely difficult question with techno lingo, you have lost an other quarter.
If an OS doesn’t work out of the box the way it should (like all their hardware functioning including audio), you have lost all the other not technology inclined people.
Windows is setup that it requires none of that. It may do something that you find horrific, but most people do not care as long as it works.
Just more in the neighborhood of being used or understanding something because it has been given to them from a very young age on. So getting familiar and used to it very young age on makes it “friendly” even though it is more “familiarity”.
Linux is always going to be really awkward at first but over the course of time you learn and shy away and develop your own kinda workflow and that’s the beauty of it in my opinion.
I find it strange that people call it user-friendly, despite it doing a lot of things hostile to the user.
Because user-friendly means that even a tech-noob can easily set it up and use it right away without much researching.
If an OS requires ANY AMOUNT of command line, you have lost about half the population.
If an OS asks any remotely difficult question with techno lingo, you have lost an other quarter.
If an OS doesn’t work out of the box the way it should (like all their hardware functioning including audio), you have lost all the other not technology inclined people.
Windows is setup that it requires none of that. It may do something that you find horrific, but most people do not care as long as it works.
Half? It’s way more than half.
Just more in the neighborhood of being used or understanding something because it has been given to them from a very young age on. So getting familiar and used to it very young age on makes it “friendly” even though it is more “familiarity”.
Linux is always going to be really awkward at first but over the course of time you learn and shy away and develop your own kinda workflow and that’s the beauty of it in my opinion.
“user friendly” doesn’t mean “in the users’ best interests”, it means “easy to use”.