Is just as high if not higher for a nontechnical user to use Linux. Sure they can look at the source code, but that doesn't mean they'll be able to make sense of it.
What if they try to solve a problem themselves? Googling it will land them on any number of blogs or forums where people post cryptic instructions or link to bash scripts that might as well be black box binaries from their perspective.
>Is just as high if not higher for a nontechnical user to use Linux. Sure they can look at the source code, but that doesn't mean they'll be able to make sense of it.
Except that there is no adware, malware, spyware, or anything else bundled into a Linux repo. The end user may not know what is up, but Debian (and the whole community of package managers) is doing a lot more to protect the end user than CNet, Google or Apple is doing to protect the end user. It is de rigueur that if I install an app from the app store, it will try to spy on me, export my contacts, etc. This is far less likely with a Linux repo.
And when Dell ships a laptop running Debian, they've setup their own repos in the package manager which is along the same lines as installing a trusted root cert in Windows by Lenovo.
The trouble is that these systems are not easy to use and end users have to put their trust somewhere to get a system that is functional for them.
Is just as high if not higher for a nontechnical user to use Linux. Sure they can look at the source code, but that doesn't mean they'll be able to make sense of it.
What if they try to solve a problem themselves? Googling it will land them on any number of blogs or forums where people post cryptic instructions or link to bash scripts that might as well be black box binaries from their perspective.