>be me, CS student running first Arch rice on main laptop
>friend of mine screen peeks
>"how do dis?"
>I tell him to lurk here, check out some youtube channels and rice galleries
>"Yeah, I'mma do that!"
>2 days later
<"a professor told me that I shouldn't install arch because it's too hard for newfags"
>tell this glow-in-the-dark nigger that I've been learning linux by setting up arch and using it day-to-day
>it's almost like learning is accelerated by necessity
>plus, literally everything has been fixed and documented at least once on arch, so just look up all of your problems
>Another class
>guy behind me talks all the time about his forks and programs he makes for his friends
>says he's working on his own OS
>he'll talk about 'hacking' but he's really talking about being an intrusive little shit
<he dailies a brand-new Mac
>we're doing a security lab on Ubuntu
<faggot can't open a VM
<faggot can't operate in a terminal window in Linux
<faggot can't compile from command line
What the fuck is it with normies and thinking that everything other than Ubuntu, Mac, and Windows and programs with cluttered GUIs and IDEs with more shit going on than they really care about is just too fucking hard for them? I'm not even talking about going full free-software or anything, I just mean basic terminal functions and writing config files just scares the piss out of them. And these are people that are going to be looking for jobs where they'll be expected to do that.