• @I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    This is one of those situations where that xkcd comic about experts comes into play.

    So removing the ~/.steam directory after doing pkill steam didn’t help? That seems simpler than most Windows tasks.

    I don’t know how to convey to you that 99% of the people that use Windows wont know how to do anything beyond trying to kill the app via the task manager. I’m one of them. What you said sounds like mystic gobbledygook to me.

    Mass Linux adoption is still far out of reach for the average user.

    • @dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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      11 days ago

      Wait… wait… So your average Facebook mom who has a laptop lying around that they use to watch their series in the evening, but will have to chuck it due to EOL of win10 and no win11 support, will not be able to adopt mint after she has someone install it for her, because you couldn’t get a hyperspecific app to run on it? (Steam is hyperspecific in the grand scheme of things).

      What a hyperbole.

    • @rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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      211 days ago

      beyond trying to kill the app via the task manager

      Which is exactly what I said, just in shell commands because that’s quicker for me. Except pkill steam kills everything containing steam in the process name, steam is a little bitch spawning a lot of them. Quicker.

      What you said sounds like mystic gobbledygook to me.

      “Task manager” is not some fundamental term either. Someone who hadn’t use Windows, if there were many of such people, wouldn’t know that it’s a GUI application listing running services and some of the processes.

      Mass Linux adoption is still far out of reach for the average user.

      If you are going to measure it by what advanced users are used to not being immediately understandable for others, then it is.