Taking a bad example, while ignoring the plethora of good examples to frame "FOSS documentation in a nutshell" is dishonest and without dignity to say the least.
Yep, someone at Raddle wrote this in the form of the navy seal copypasta. I just made small changes (Linux to GNU/Linux) for the circlejerk.
Doesn't make it better. There are tons of popular linux distros, and I doubt that you genuinely tried all of them. Have you tried OpenSUSE? Gentoo? Fedora? Peppermint? Or any of those 84 distros listed here?: https://www.slant.co/topics/871/~best-linux-distributions-for-desktops
Of course, if you only include 3 or 4 linux distros in your definition of popular, you would be able to try all of them. But there is no way to test every slightly popular distro, there are just too many.
Also, why would you even try to use all of them? Like, didn't you release that the problem might not be Linux fault but your hardwares after one or two distro switches?
How do you even enable the snap store? terminal and messing with config files.
You are proving my point. There is no reason whatsoever why they don't give a script to automate the process instead of forcing the user to do it manually by hand.
>Again most people have 512GB-2TB hard drives no one cares
For those people, there are more feature-rich DEs like Plasma.
>most people dont program
True, but most people use software, so they benefit indirectly from using a platform that's friendly for developers. A large part of why there's so much good, free software for Linux is that the entry barrier for people to start programming on Linux is so low.
>Again no one cares, just look at how many downloads launchers get on the android store. hell most people dont even change their wallpaper.
I've seen quite a few Windows users with nasty viruses because they downloaded dodgy third-party programs that promised to make their desktops pretty. And who on earth doesn't change their wallpaper?
>okay no cortana, sure she sucks but does linux have a replacement?
There's Mycroft. No idea if it's any good, though.
>he source code of Windows is very confidential and only a few people have access to very little areas of its code.
The problem with this argument is that clean room reverse engineering is legal, and entire books about how the Windows kernel works are available to read. The Linux community is simply too lazy to read up on it. Plus the people that have actually studied the NT kernel are in agreement that it's a better kernel than Linux and all the Unix clones.
>Learn it once, use forever.
Sure, and you've NEVER, EVER forgotten a command or it's syntax once. Memorization takes time, memory lapses are a thing, and real OSes don't require any memorization.
It's not a business, but it's an enormous waste of time as a desktop, and the fact 99% of people immediately go back to Windows in 2 weeks still being true for over a decade is the important part. You just want to try to argue your way into getting people to believe you're right, but the market share doesn't lie. If it were a business it would be "listen to us or be fired." And that's why Linux can't ever improve. It's an entire of community of religious nuts that believes open source is superior, while ignoring and convincing themselves an extremely shitty operating system is good for all these nonsense technical reasons that ignore the big picture. Does it just work (Windows: Yes, Mac: Yes, iOS: Yes, Android: Yes, Desktop Linux: Fuck no, and that's your problem now).