Maybe the same reason a 2 party system does well in the US. People are not intelligent enough to make their own choices (and they get overwhelmed) and want “daddy” to tell them what to choose, much like how Windows is just “the thing you use on a PC”. People don’t even want to find their own music anymore, they want the Al Gore Rhythm to feed them everything.
That’s why when people ask me on Linux I just say Mint, use default settings. Because they won’t understand anything else and Mint will likely work fine in 98% of cases.
Read “Nudge” by Richard Thaler. Choice architecture is a real thing that has impact on whether things we want to happen actually happen. It’s not because people aren’t smart enough.
Maybe the same reason a 2 party system does well in the US. People are not intelligent enough to make their own choices (and they get overwhelmed) and want “daddy” to tell them what to choose, much like how Windows is just “the thing you use on a PC”. People don’t even want to find their own music anymore, they want the Al Gore Rhythm to feed them everything.
That’s why when people ask me on Linux I just say Mint, use default settings. Because they won’t understand anything else and Mint will likely work fine in 98% of cases.
Choice paralysis has nothing to do with intelligence. This attitude is forever pushing the year of the Linux desktop away.
Nice work getting in a jab at the US there lol
Read “Nudge” by Richard Thaler. Choice architecture is a real thing that has impact on whether things we want to happen actually happen. It’s not because people aren’t smart enough.