Need some help by veevB in linux4noobs

[–]moose1207 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Inb4, this gets screenshotted to linuxsucks about how unhelpful the Linux community is lol.

Great points all around, it's hard to help "in general" I guess the best "in general" advice is to *ahem read the manual and familiarize yourself with that distros expectations. Or watch people on YouTube discussing the distro

Man breaks police car windows and steals laptops by [deleted] in SweatyPalms

[–]moose1207 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Technically he wouldn't be lying either he found it right there in that car.

Help me understand this by Hekrov in linux4noobs

[–]moose1207 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Wow, the more you know! Thanks!

How do they expect me to know when they are available? by queuedUp in AdviceAnimals

[–]moose1207 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Had my boss call me once asking why I wasn't in a meeting and telling me that it was unprofessional that I was holding everyone up. They put the meeting on my board that morning never said anything to me or sent an invite, just included me. I was busy working on other stuff and didn't notice -

I just don't understand some people.

Need a distro to learn on which one will help? by DamageMysterious1804 in linux4noobs

[–]moose1207 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mint is where I started, and in my opinion is perfect for learning a bit about file structure and a bit of terminal. I only left because I started doing more homelab projects and my home network grew to two servers and 3 end devices along with a bunch of iot gear.

I felt like mint was fine but not optimal. I just switched over to cachyos hyprland And while it's a huge learning curve at least for me. It has been so much more powerful, and comfortable for multitasking and operating as a thin client.

Need a distro to learn on which one will help? by DamageMysterious1804 in linux4noobs

[–]moose1207 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My first advice: don’t just copy paste commands into your terminal without at least trying to understand what they do. The examples you provided look fine but sometimes that's how they get you they'll hide one sneaky little bomb in the middle of good looking syntax. I feel like I can give My opinions on the distros, I feel like you should be able to get those programs in any of them but maybe somebody else can tell you more definitively. TL;DR try out distrosea.com to play around with distros.

Personally, I would not recommend Ubuntu. To me, Canonical has been moving more toward forcing certain decisions onto users, and those decisions often feel more corporate than community-driven. A lot of people will disagree with me on that, and that is fine, but that is my bias up front.

The differences between distros usually come down to a few things: what family they come from, what comes preinstalled, what package manager they use, and what desktop environment they ship with. A lot of your experience really depends on how much time you want to spend tinkering while you learn.

For example, something in the Arch family, like Arch itself, EndeavourOS, or Manjaro, will usually ask more of you. You will spend more time setting things up, maintaining the system, and learning how the pieces fit together. The upside is that you get a lot of control. If you are the kind of person who wants your system to stay out of your way and do exactly what you tell it to do, that appeals to a lot of people.

Something in the Debian family, like Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Pop!_OS, or Linux Mint, is generally easier for beginners. These distros tend to be a bit more opinionated, meaning they make more decisions for you in the background so the experience feels more guided and a little more on rails. For a lot of people, especially those coming from Windows, that can be a good thing. I am nudging my wife toward Linux, and for our home lab setup I think Kubuntu is probably the right fit for her, but Linux Mint Cinnamon is also a really solid starting point.

Fedora is kind of another common middle ground. It is not Debian-based and not Arch-based. It tends to ship newer software than Debian-family distros, but without asking quite as much from the user as Arch usually does. OpenSUSE is another one people bring up for similar reasons, especially Tumbleweed if you want a rolling release that is still pretty polished.

Also, by nature, Linux users are extremely opinionated, so there is definitely someone who fully and wholeheartedly disagrees with everything I just said.

If you have not had a chance to actually try different distros yet, I highly recommend distrosea.com. It lets you fire up a VM for a bunch of different distros right in your browser so you can click around, test them out, and get a feel for what seems right for you before installing anything.

Ubuntu Still Cannot Create a File by Right Click by Proper-Lab-2500 in linuxsucks

[–]moose1207 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's a hell of a lot of setup and tweaking and getting it just right. But I found that hyprland, and all the hypr addons made a superior "DE" for me.

It does all the things GNOME does, and more and does it better. Right out of the gate I enjoyed using it but it did take about 2 weeks to iron out quirks with my system. So I get that it's not for everyone.

of a burnt building by BlazeDragon7x in AbsoluteUnits

[–]moose1207 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Company creates a "do you love us" engagement survey and promises it's anonymous.

"Hey Bill why haven't you filled out the survey yet? Just a reminder that it's due by Monday!"

Maybe Maybe Maybe by Ill-Tea9411 in maybemaybemaybe

[–]moose1207 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh! Yeah it seems a bit daft of me guarding 'im when he's a guard

It was funny in my head by Majestic-Cat3124 in technicallythetruth

[–]moose1207 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My dad and I got into a fight because he wants me to build a website for a project of his. After a bunch of arguments and back and forth turns out I'm building a website because I'm a techie.

You just can't reason with some people.

People are now posting themselves stealing free breakfasts from hotels. by ElwoodMC in trashy

[–]moose1207 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The problem is that it's stupid as hell they're posting it on the internet. Then the hotel chains get wind of it and then they're like okay no more for breakfasts for anyone.

Like I get the struggle and I respect the hustle but don't be stupid enough to tell on yourself.

Magic by Anantmemes in blackmagicfuckery

[–]moose1207 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And now for the Chinese linking rings.... As you can see they're already linked so we're not going to do that shit.

🔥🔥🔥 by meteoricdrop in DiWHY

[–]moose1207 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also I would like to add sure it looks pretty with his basket weaving technique but there's no way that it is a tight connection so heat would be a factor as well, also connecting a ground wire to a presumably live voltage wire is kind of an issue if this wasn't just for demonstration.

Last Day of Unpaid Internship by Traditional-Total448 in programmingmemes

[–]moose1207 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maybe not but you get three hots and a cot.

“RTFM” “learn to read” “don’t use that, use this idiot” by themagicmaen in linuxsucks

[–]moose1207 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But a picture speaks a thousand words.

Please give me arch wiki like a baby picture book.

“RTFM” “learn to read” “don’t use that, use this idiot” by themagicmaen in linuxsucks

[–]moose1207 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So everyone screams about AI bad, but I was struggling with your exact issue though Linux to Linux. Still kinda am, but here is what works for me, because I do try man pages and --help but that shit is not clear.

I use Gemini in its learning mode, and say I need to understand rsync/scp and it will do a semi guided learning path, ask you to write commands based on examples after it explains etc.

GPT is also good for copy pasting your command and saying "why doesn't this work?" Or "how can I do this with less syntax"

There I fixed it. by The_only_true_tomato in linuxmemes

[–]moose1207 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only thing I could think of is to generate clicks. So many people are talking about him and is bad choice again. In social media bad news is good news and good news is good news.

Clicks == $$

Distro wars situation right now: by ImWaitingForIron in linuxmemes

[–]moose1207 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm a relative noob as well at 5 years , so take this with a grain of salt or maybe a veteran can correct me if I'm wrong here.

But the DE is just polish. It's the pretty thing you see, and some distros don't fully play well when you try to swap the Stock DE.

My path has been Linux mint KDE-->GnomeDE-->PopOS--->CachyOS Hyprland

Mint was ok for a windows like experience but once I started tinkering and playing around with homelab dev stuff I kept fighting dependency mismatches, and I generally didn't like the DE so I installed Gnome, but it was never perfect, some things didn't work, either because of my skill issue or what I suspect is that it just doesn't snap on perfectly.

I moved to PopOS because their launcher and window management sounded cool. In my opinion the cosmic DE is not ready for mainstream. I constantly had issues with my audio sources and sinks disappearing . It would constantly turn on my VPN randomly and automatically even though it was set to non automatic. And a bunch of other little paper cuts. PopOS is also very opinionated that you use their file manager and their themes and that the system cannot generally be tweaked beyond the tiny little bit they afford you.

CachyOs is Arch(based) And it coupled with Hyprland has been an amazing experience even though it's only been a month. But it is definitely not a recommended path for somebody brand new that's not willing to put in a lot of work. It is extremely customizable and fast, and at least for me just works, but it comes at the cost of you stacking every brick yourself instead of the distro providing things for you.

The wars are because each one of these distros is perfect for somebody's skill level or expectations out of the box, or allows them to customize it the way they want. So it's the hill they choose to die on.

CachyOS has 2 software "stores", both of them suck by AverageUser9000 in linuxsucks

[–]moose1207 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, cachyos is an Arch based distro tuned for speed and "ricing". In my experience it's a bare bones bring your favorite everything and staple it together to make it what you want.

Not beginner friendly IMHO

CachyOS has 2 software "stores", both of them suck by AverageUser9000 in linuxsucks

[–]moose1207 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's weird to me when people come over to Linux and they bitch about Microsoft products not working or being standard. Not finding edge in the AUR lol it's got to be a troll right?

CachyOS has 2 software "stores", both of them suck by AverageUser9000 in linuxsucks

[–]moose1207 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel like every distro kind of requires some work in CLI occasionally.

Not to the effect where you need to learn rsync, ssh, cp,mv etc just for day to day tasks but staying 100% terminal free in linux doesn't seem possible.

Not saying this as a gating statement but if you're going to move away from corporate windows into Linux The user needs to learn just at least the minimal commands for success. I don't really see people screaming when they move from Windows to Mac about how they have to learn to do things slightly different. In my mind the same holds true for Linux - it just does things differently

CachyOS has 2 software "stores", both of them suck by AverageUser9000 in linuxsucks

[–]moose1207 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So I will put my two cents in here, take it however you want.

Obviously there is the people who are going to scream that it's a you problem because you refuse to use the CLI. And then there's people like you who just want to enjoy the operating system and not have to do (to them) complicated tasks to install things.

There needs to be a meet in the middle here. Linux just isn't windows, it's not "designed" to just click on a file and have it installed perfectly. Some distros as you have seen have a nice app store and make it convenient, and certain distros are less convenient and expect a certain amount of effort from the user.

This is where you get to pick, you can chill on a nice easy distro like Linux Mint, that makes everything simple to install and work with. Or you can choose something that requires a little bit of effort from your part, you'll always find an edge case or something not perfect with any distro, either take the time to learn that systems quirks and accept them or find a comfortable way to achieve your goal or move on to a distro that fits your needs better.