Dear #Linux friends. How do you talk about new versions of DEs to non-Linux friends?
Like #Gnome 46 has been released and you want to tell someone how much better their Linux experience will be now if they try, or there's a specific feature you feel they would appreciate that you want to tell them about. Or something. How do you talk about it?
"Gnome is, like, this way for Linux to look and feel and now it's got this new..." is reeeal clunky. Not sure you'll win anybody over like that, or?
"GNOME is an operating system" :)
@sonny @forteller it's not but also it's literally the entire user facing part of the system so might as well call it that
@forteller I think my friends would finally stop texting me, haha. I actually haven't met a single person irl who runs Linux, except for a student of mine, he's a 16 year old guy who uses Arch (btw), has his own home server and probably knows more about Linux than me already.
@forteller I don't talk about these at all. KDE does exactly what I need and everything more I want from Plasma 6 (not yet in my distro) is bugfixes that I couldn't find in the release notes.
I speak of getting a computer to work better and look better after installing a new Debian release.
If installing for someone, I might ask if they want something easier to access for a past Mac OS user (GNOME) or Windows user (KDE).
@forteller "new UI just dropped"
@forteller Most often than not they do not have any concept of what I'm talking about, and keep trying to make sense of the topic referring to Windows/MacOS. Nowadays, I just screenshare and do a show and tell, and focus on visuals more than under the hood improvements. Luckily, I convinced some to daily a Linux distribution or at least use/try linux on some level, which helps.
@forteller I really don't, at least not more than Mac or Windows people talk about their OS. OSes seem rather boring these days. What I occasionally hear: Mac is well integrated with iStuff
For me Linux/GNOME works fine, non-power users might like it, it gets out of the way and — and that's a big one —, it's not trying to sell me anything, which I find very pleasant.
@forteller you simply wait until windows goes subscription based and then you say here are your options lol
@forteller We don’t have to be missionaries just because we “are on #linux”.
(Especially not about #Gnome ;)
@arosano Yet sometimes it's nice to be able to talk with people about things you care about, and things you think they might enjoy too. What a concept.
@forteller I only really talk about it if I can actually solve a problem for them. If they don’t have a problem, they don’t really have a driving force to switch. Reality is, most people really don’t care. Even tech people. We all just have different reasons for using what we use.