Let’s say just like for example like MacOS. It’s awesome we have so many tools but at the same time lack of some kind of standardization can seem like nothing works and you get overwhelmed. I’m asking for people that want to support Linux or not so tech-savy people.

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    you can’t because it’s explicitly against the whole point of having endless choices. when everyone works on something different, the quality spreads out to where it’s mostly just mediocre stuff across the board.

    https://xkcd.com/927

    hardware compatibility is also a huge problem. for everyone that says “it works fine for me” there are a thousand others for whom it does not.

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      I feel like there’s also the point that on Mac OS a lot of stuff “just works” because everything else just doesn’t work at all. I have a number of things that just aren’t going to work at all on Mac. Linux is obviously much more permissive, which leads to a lot more kinda working stuff that just wouldn’t work at all on Mac.

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      when everyone works on something different, the quality spreads out to where it’s mostly just mediocre stuff across the board.

      I wouldn’t say that’s the only problem. We have pretty high quality stuff on Linux. The other problem is that choice always means differences between options which makes perfect integration hard or even impossible.

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      Yeah but you can have default choices that are guarantee to work.

      And yeah preinstalled checked hardware would be ideal.