Harlehatschi

Well yes but also no. There are quite a few distros that are "minimal effort", they just work for the average person without any more knowledge you'd need on Windows or Mac. The last part that's still not so "minimal effort" is gaming, most things just work out of the box, some things don't. Btw Android is Linux.

So I don't think that the problem is that Linux needs a little more knowledge or effort, because it mostly doesn't, but the fact that most people who would switch see a billion different distros and don't know what to do. Having so much choice here actually hinders people from coming to Linux. Doesn't mean it would be better with less choices, it's just one of several reasons why we don't see mass adoption.

Another reason is the outdated thinking that Linux is complicated to use (and this blog fuels just that).

Why would I need AI for that? We should really stop trying to slap AI on everything. Also no, I'm not that big of a fan of wasting energy on web crawlers.

Yes I agree on that. A lot of people write "C with classes" and then complain...

"americans" is a bad name but it's more specific than "united statesians". But I would fully support dissolving that country and founding a new one (or multiple) with a better name.

I'm a full time C++ developer, mostly doing high performance data processing and some visualization and TUI tools, and as someone loving C++, it's not as simple as you frame it. In sufficiently complex code you still have to deal with these problems. Rust has some good mechanisms in place to avoid these and there are things on the way for c++26 though.

I've been playing Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel recently on PC and despite being relatively action heavy it's 99% left hand (WASD + Q + space)

But if your tool chain is worth anything the size of each binary shouldn't be bigger. To oversimplify things a bit: it's just #ifdefs and a proper tool chain.

In the web development world on the other hand everything was always awful. Every nodejs package has half the world as dependencies...

No, because forking a distro and updating some hundred thousands of PCs is not done in a week.

Edit: and why would we go with Ubuntu...

Living under a rock eh?

But looking at the security vulnerability records of gnu coreutils that wasn't really needed. There were like a handful in the last 15 years... So I don't really see a need or benefit here.