"It's really that the "normies" aren't interested."
People are interested in things they can control and not be controlled by them. But since "they" do not know about computers - to them a proprietary app they know how to use, is one they feel they can control, opposed to a open source app, they can totally control in theory, but not in reality because they cannot figure out the config, let alone change the source.
In other words, it is how you present it to them. If you can make them understand, that open source can mean that in the end, they can have a app they can really trust and gets the job done - then they will be interested. But if you tell them, they just will have to memorizes those terminal commands, then probably no.
People are interested in things they can control and not be controlled by them. But since "they" do not know about computers - to them a proprietary app they know how to use, is one they feel they can control, opposed to a open source app, they can totally control in theory, but not in reality because they cannot figure out the config, let alone change the source.
In other words, it is how you present it to them. If you can make them understand, that open source can mean that in the end, they can have a app they can really trust and gets the job done - then they will be interested. But if you tell them, they just will have to memorizes those terminal commands, then probably no.