[tenger]

'Distros' is why Linux isn't mainstream. Too many choices. How many in Windows currently? XP, 7, 8, 10, 11. When you can narrow down your linux distros to 4 or 5 and have a kazillion people collaborating on those to fine tune them, call me. Even calling it Distro is a too techy for most. For whatever reason, Linux just has never been able to market itself right. Probably superior product with egos and arrogance to match.

My experience with Mint was not stellar. I had the hardest time connecting my printer. Never did figure it out. So, calling someone lazy (as someone on here did just now) doesn't help your cause. I would love to ditch MS, but until the tech minds at Linux put their heads together to make it non-tech user friendly, they'll just be great OS without home users.

Then again, we wouldn't have these killer Linux/Window/Mac threads if they improved their marketing of the product.

[daniel1212]

Too many choices

You mean:

1. When you can narrow down your linux distros to 4 or 5 and have a kazillion people collaborating on those to fine tune them, call me

Meaning on your Andoid phone, an example of what you just said. But big capitalist money drove it. And Linux is by far the most used OS, due to intense focus on specific technical crafting for application use, which the Desktop does not demand.

For one, I would like to see Linux provide compact yet comprehensive menus, including via right click on the desktop, thus reducing time needed to got someplace. Puppy Linux comes close to that. But in Windows that can be easily enabled and customized. Composite image under W/10:

[Openurmind]

But it is laziness. Too lazy to make an install/live CD thumbdrive and try it. We live in a world where even one extra mouse click is too much work for most.

You have no idea how many times I have seen this very same complaint.