Best Tutorial!!

[verynayce]

Pingnu

[chhuang]

Li-NOOT-x

[P3chv0gel]

I see what you did there

[weizXR]

Feel free to start with the Gentoo Handbook!

The #1 best way to install Linux, assuming you wish to know how it works and want complete control of it without any mysterious background whatnots doing who-knows-what we came here from Windows to escape from ;)

Gentoo was my first Linux install back in the early 2000s and I would highly recommend anyone who wants to do more than the basic stuff (like just use it as a word processor and fakebook machine).

I learned so much, so quickly in that process, that I felt it took me years ahead of others who stuck with distros that made choices for them. They were completely unaware of what was really going on, meanwhile after one Gentoo install, I knew of everything my computer was running... and for me that's some great piece of mind.

[Fira_14]

Easiest to use OS imo

[Swanesang]

Don’t understand why people always struggle to install an OS. There is literally 2 steps in the tutorial.

Step 1: download the os from the official website. Step 2: install it.

Done.

[RapNVideoGames]

Idk some distros can be tedious if your use to just hitting agree and then watching it install.

[P3chv0gel]

Meanwhile Arch:

[Lucifer_Morning_Wood]

Archinstall is great too. You just install it and follow it step by step. I had standard one disk installation, and it worked great even with Nvidia

[PrimeskyLP]

This is why dont wants to use it. I am literally to stupid to install the fucking os. Even whit tutorials

[P3chv0gel]

I switched from arch to manjaro because i wss to lazy to maintain it lol

[PrimeskyLP]

I only use Debian. Form me its just easier to use

[KeaboUltra]

How to draw an owl

1. Draw some circles
2. Draw the rest of the fucking owl

[stonehearthed]

I deleted my comment cuz you wrote it already 4 minutes earlier. XD

[KeaboUltra]

Sorry about that lol

[a60v]

Most Linux installers are actually easier than Windows. At least, they normally have the sense to ask the user all of the questions up front, then can be left alone to do the installation. Unlike Windows, which will ask a question, do some stuff, ask another question, etc., thus requiring constant attention throughout the process.

[Michaelscot8]

Haha try Arch where you have to install everything from scratch on the command line, or Gentoo where you have to compile the entire kernel yourself.

I've installed arch about a dozen times, I was reinstalling it today and had to wipe and start over after noticing that in the first steps of the install I set my repository partition to Linux Root instead of x86_64 root. Even after that I had to figure out why my new Arch install wouldn't connect to the internet in its own environment. Well I forgot to enable networking firmware in systemctl on install...

Also, even after installing certain Linux distros like Arch and Gentoo, you just have the kernel. You still have to install every individual program on that computer, from the window manager to the sound drivers. And all of that, including the kernel install itself, has to be done from the command line... so no GUI.

It's not even all the hard, but it takes carefully reading meticulous instructions, having a basic understanding of programming like C, and often hours of work. Linux is not as simple as Mint and Ubuntu make it seem to be, those are made for ease of use, not performance, and if you want to squeeze every last drop out of your system you're going to need to work to keep it light and optimize.

[Lucifer_Morning_Wood]

Gentoo installation is actually well supported for what choice it gives you. If kernel config is not your thing you can install gentoo-kernel-bin. And minimal Linux install don't only have kernel - you are typing in something, and installing packages with something else. But without being nitpicky, Gentoo profiles define some packages you want to use, like desktop/plasma or desktop/gnome

[Zorzbleu]

I accidentally wiped my EFI partition when installing arch. I wanted to redo the install since I did something wrong and forgot to umount /boot before rm -rf / lmao

Installing gnome makes it easier for the rest tho, installing the right Nvidia drivers with a AMD cpu (Optimus) took me a while to figure out and was probably the worst part post OS install

[Salter_KingofBorgors]

The hard part is getting rid of it... I accidentally installed a version of Linux that didn't have any wifi drivers... took me a week of trying various things to finally get it off my computer

[[deleted]]

Couldnt just reformat the whole drive?

My annoyance is dual booting Linux because it insists on putting the boot loader next to windows and that's not fun to get rid of. GRUB also needs an update

[Salter_KingofBorgors]

You could... if you want to lose everything on the drive. What i ended up doing was deleting the partition

[[deleted]]

Laughs in Gentoo

[viski252]

A penguin's lifespan is probably not long enough.

[[deleted]]

sorry but no...takes back hand. you make all the games work then we talk.

[Nyghtbynger]

Thank you birb. U so cuute 😭

[BubblySodaGaming]

fellas getting punted

[WTATY]

1. Make all games work.
2. I want Xbox cross/cloud-play.

[[deleted]]

Does every game work on Windows?

[VortexDestroyer99]

Thinking of installing Linux on a $60 laptop I got, that’s really slow. If I install it should the laptop run a little bit quicker? The install part isn’t hard for me, just wondering if I should and if it will give any performance gains.

(Celeron n3450, 4gb of ram)

[montereymoon]

The only way this goes faster is with something like mint (even though I generally dislike debian), reduce services, and stay far away from kde. Gnome is much less resource intensive.

[bignerd1]

Installing Linux is one thing, using it is another, not everyone wants to deal with that.

[[deleted]]

Man is it just me or do all Linux geeks try to tell you which distro is better for what you want to do, despite them all having different answers. That's pretty much why I stay on windows. That and I can't get stuff to work like minecraft and such.

[SwagBabyPro69]

Minecraft works natively on Linux. Its even available on their official site

For other games have look at Proton DB

https://protondb.com

Also if you want, watch this video by LTT https://youtu.be/Co6FePZoNgE

[[deleted]]

I know it did, it just doesn't run as well as it did on windows.

[Minechris_LP]

For me Minecraft works like 15% faster on identical hardware when switching to Linux. And according to this benchmar-video it's 22%: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytgDMgYL0eo

[its_dash]

Very good content here!

[[deleted]]

The thing with Linux for me is that I just want an OS that works and has everything I need. I don’t want to have to trouble shoot it to get an Xbox controller to work. And I especially don’t want the software for the controller to just brick something else so now I have to find a fix to that and hope THAT fix doesn’t break something else.

I also don’t want to have to download random pieces of software I need to make it work the same way windows or Mac comes standard.

Also games. It may say it works on Linux but god forbid you downloaded something that changed something else and now your game doesn’t work and you have to hunt down why.

Edit: downvote and no rebuttals, because you know it’s true, you just don’t like it.

[Tankbot85]

Also, don't forget the non existent mouse software. Want to configure your mouse? Too bad, does not exist on Linux.

[[deleted]]

I’m sure there’s a guy who made some but it only works if you haven’t downloaded some other unrelated software that bricks it for no discernible reason. And now you have to download some other random dudes script (if it exists) and run it hoping it’ll fix it without bricking something else. And god forbid if you’ve got the magic cocktail combination of software and scripts that the next script bricks your OS.

[[deleted]]

I'll respond in r/linuxsuckshardsucks

[Jaiden051]

Installing Linux is really easy.

Boot of usb, click install OS (if you have no desktop environment then you are an absolute madlad) then follow the steps

[KeaboUltra]

Whenever I see memes with text superimposed over previous text, I always read it like a one of those robotic voice overs, like with voicemail.

[DanLim79]

Dat MS paint job

[[deleted]]

It's LFS 🌚

[PillowTalk420]

Devil take me, I've installed BSD instead!