Mid 40 here.

I’m hard pressed for advantages. I care less for opinions of others, but also feel immense frustration that those exact opinions influence my life too often.

I appreciate many things more because I have the experience to know how much effort they were, but also lost my fascination amd feeling of wonder.

I think it is not an issue with being older as such. It is the time we live in.

Struggles increasing while the body and mind are decreasing.

Well, you are sort of validating my point pretty much with the content of your answer.

The issue is not willingness to tinker or such. It is time. People just don’t realize how much time this kind of tinkering eats. Which is not fun but extremely frustrating when all you want to do is to use your wee bit of free time for something relaxing and fun.

So no, I am not prepared to sacrifice my rare moments of mental recuperation on trying to figure out why something that should just work doesn’t work. Or doesn’t work in the needed way.

Until Linux isn’t utterly install and it works right away intuitively it will NEVER reach the masses.

The fediverse is very linux oriented I see again and again.

Sadly most Linux users are so deep into it that they don’t understand the pain of transition from something known to something that you have to invest significant time into to get running as you want it to.

And whenever people say this, several people post Linux versions that are supposedly super easy to set up and very similar to windows… Which shows that they are no longer able to see the relevant differences.

I find it annoying. Essentially as someone who has tried to switch to linux on my own terms(!) and that’s not possible without investing more time than a family dad with job is prepared to invest.

I mean just look at the posts in here. It like reading posts from religious people who would love to go from door to door to “spread the word.”

Rather they grabbed a fancy reason to increase prices because of greed.

The few big ram production companies likely had a chat and decided: “Hey, more money? Yea! More money! We like more money!”