Reddit fucking blows

Gotta teach em bad habits early. That way they break things before it matters to much and they can learn!

Another nice thing about Unbuntu was that searching for "Ubuntu your-problem-here" usually gave good results. Sometimes it could be a 10 year old forum post that was still relevant.

Searching for "Linux Mint your-problem-here" is more likely to give less relevant results.

But distro C isn't actually easy you should use distro F for a really good new user experience!

Lol

Because most Linux users online are posers who only use their computers to run update commands.

Mint community's first solution is always "have you tried just not doing that?".

Not that I particularly want to get involved—I do also like inxi—but you can launch Info Center (kinfocenter) from krunner, the application menu, or under About this System in System Settings to get a good amount of this information and more.

I had the same complaint about auto mounting internal drives and the stupid KDE wallet system, both of those things got fixed at some point. Given enough time I'm sure your issues will be figured out as well. I will say that audio support does really suck at the moment though. I gave up on using my surround sound system for the time being.

Ubuntu Forums have solved all my problems, past, present and future.

I'm pretty sure that most Linux environments that I've been in have had dir for a long time.

checks

Okay, I'm on my phone right now, so Termux does, and it's not an alias. The manpages say that it's part of GNU coreutils, so it's probably like that on all the distros.

checks the git mirror

https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commits/master/man/dir.x

The dir manpage file was added to GNU coreutils in 1998. Could be that it even predated that---I didn't go see whether the repository layout changed at that point. But it's at least that old.

And here I am rebooting windows every few days because it gets unstable. Meanwhile the Linux VM I have running on that very same windows keeps on chugging like clockwork.

Ah xfce user

True, but Mint is close enough to Ubuntu that what solutions work for Ubuntu will likely work for Mint as well with little or no modifications.

If your distribution allows using pip (most don't)

Either create a venv for the python package in question ($ python -m venv venv in the package build directory) and activate it ($ . venv/bin/activate in the package build directory) before running the program or running pip commands, or use pipx instead of pip).

Mint might be easier to recommended in their next major release, but being stuck on x11 when all the optimisations are being made for Wayland (not to mention features a lot of new users might expect like HDR and fractional scaling). They've also recently had a problem with shipping outdated packages and leaving the repo/support links as is, leading to users reporting bugs which were fixed months or even up to a year ago.

They're working on all of that to their credit, and their next release should fix most of those problems, but I'm hesitant to recommended Mint right now

What's the value of this advice? You can google the same thing in about 2 minutes. People usually expect real-world experience.

!nya@piefed.blahaj.zone was leaking

Car people talked shit about how using an automatic transmission wasn't really driving

... we stopped doing that? D:

Info Center is good, but getting the information into a forum post isn't easy. With inxi, it's just copy and paste. Just one simple example where the terminal is better.

I'm someone who just prefers a GUI. I can do CLI for small things, but when it comes to ease of use, GUI all the way.

When I recommend Linux I always recommend Mint because it can be installed and set up by anyone who can read and follow half a dozen instructions. I don't often recommend Linux though, because the average user won't even read an error message before giving up.

This isn't entirely wrong, but sometimes you should just do the thing you want to do in the first place. For example, MOST distros are "new user friendly" these days. Mint is cool, but you don't need to go to Mint first if you want to use, say, CachyOS. Rolling distros I've found to be actually EASIER to deal with. Literally just update regularly and you're good. Don't have to reinstall for an upgrade, or have outdated software with bugs that were patched 2 years ago. Obviously yeah, there are distro where you have to do or customize everything like Arch, Gentoo, or LFS, but most people don't ever want to build up to that in the first place. If it has the featured you want, just try it. Nix is maybe one of the exceptions, but at the same time it's so different so you're not going to get a ton of transferrable skills from an easier distro anyway.

Yeah, the terminal is much more universal on Linux distros.

People will have wildly different GUI environments. I have no idea how to do thing X in all of KDE Plasma or GNOME or Xfce or Cinnamon or whatever. But outside of package management and some systemwide config, most Linux distros work pretty much the same way at a bash prompt.

I switched from openSUSE to Fedora because SUSE was a little too bleeding edge for me.

If you're coming from Debian, Fedora will be right in the middle of bleeding edge and Debian stable.

I think. :-P

I've been at this Linux thing for maybe 20 years now. I've tried more distros than I can remember.

And after running Kinonite and Aurora for almost 2 years now, I tend to recommend any Atomic based distro or spin for newbies. They are stable and solid. While still allowing for users to easily choose their own software and install it with very little worry of burning the house down.

And Bazzite fits right in there. Easy install and it works well for gaming. Or choose Aurora if you are looking for a "regular" desktop experience, (that's me). And they take care of your video card drivers because you choose your video card when you download the ISO.

Mint is nice and I will recommend it also, but Atomics are the way forward for newbies and those that either don't want to tinker anymore or those that aren't at that "Lemme see what it takes to break this" point.

I've had more bad experiences trying to enjoy new things in new communities than good experiences. I think that is more to just how shit my luck is, but it still sucks when I'm just trying to enjoy something with others online. :-/

people would tell you to RTFM if your question was answered anywhere in the documentation

Modern day internet techies will snear at you for using AI assist tools when setting up an environment. But by god, do these agents not save me endless hours of trying to decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls of system configuration.

RTFM only works when the documentation is high quality and easy to follow. Better yet, if you know the manual so well, just link me to the damned chapter I'm supposed to focus in on. I'm trying to set up an *arr stack, not become a sysadmin team lead at a Fortune 500 company.

Never mind DMAs and IRQs, you had to manually write config files specifying the geometry and refresh rate of your monitor.

In fairness, a lot of those config files were relatively easy to write. I'll take that over hunting through forty different nearly-identical screens in a custom configured BIOS.

Nah, poser was my teenage self installing it on my first gen iPod nano despite not knowing so much as what cat or mv does.

Never got that one before, I always get multiple solutions and workarounds until a problem is solved.

That's alright, I've used them all. Don't ask me about Fedora cause I will shit on Red Hat for the rest of my life. This also includes stuff like Bazzite by extension.

You don't hunt buff, buff hunts YOU! (Gentoo almost made me cry back in the day).

You can search the ancient scrolls for an eternity or consult the all knowing shoggoth that may melt your brain or lie.

I chose bazzite because it had all the gaming shit included and I wanted to get some experience with a known good configuration before I tried starting from scratch. So far I haven't ran into any problems other than the install script someone made to get my 3d printer working with cura doesn't work. I think I can manually put the files where they need to go but wasn't able to figure it out when I tried a few weeks ago.

MacOS has the advantage (that the other OSes don't) of being developed in house by the same company that designs the hardware.

This is more accurate anyway.

Listen, I'm not saying Ya hai kadishtu ep r'luh-eeh Nyogtha eeh, s'uhn-ngh athg li'hee orr'e syha'h. But I get it.

Mint is great for that. Fedora also offers up cookbook style instructions that can show both GUI and terminal commands. It's a great way for newbies to get used to both methods.

I've been using a local Qwen3.8 model as a NixOS sysadmin lately for a non-critical VPS. So far, it has been working surprisingly well! I guess it's easier for AI agents to gather context when the whole system and apps are defined in code, and immutable when applied.

Wait most people don't have to do this still?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347298908843

Hunting by male lions: ecological influences and socioecological implications

The main prey species of all male group types, but particularly nonterritorial males, was buffalo. By contrast, females preyed more frequently on the most abundant medium-sized ungulates, such as wildebeest,Connochaetes taurinus, and zebra,Equus burchelli.

And that's OK. It does get them to open the term and see it and use it a little - copy/pasta is how we all started out. (Truth is, I still copy/pasta after more than 20 years should perhaps need) But that does not negate the GUI experience. I like and use the GUI every time I can.

But I understand the need for the Cli too. I can often use it to better see where a problem is. Something my GUI lovin' lazy butt doesn't always do.

Yeah, I'm very interested in the user side of Linux, less so what's under the hood. There's some degree of it there, I do use Gentoo, which is more manual than any other distro I've come across, but that's about as deep as I want to go for a daily driver. I am a little tempted to do LFS on a VM once I have a computer that can handle it again

Or --break-system-packages, then never run as root and run rm ~/.local/lib/python* to clear.

Look at Fedora perhaps. It's often the first steps into the wider seas of distro hopping, (if your into that sort of thing). You will get a stable distro with a good number of spins to try out and up to date software with regular upgraded versions every 6 months. The Atomic spins are super stable. The "regular" spins can be a good gateway to advance your skills a bit.

If you are a gamer, checkout Bazzite maybe. Bazzite makes gaming easy.

It's easy enough, it's just a pain in the arse to update anything once changed. The simple answer is that most users never run into that situation. The average Bazzite user would still be on windows if it didn't actively get in the way of just playing videogames, so they're not even exploring the Bazaar, never mind compiling something from source. Steam and Firefox come preinstalled, they might install Discord and Heroic, and that's them set. Immutability means they can just play their games without disturbances.
Bazzite users that do have problems with its immutability just move to a mutable distro, but most computer users who need a mutable distro are already on Linux. The new wave of OS migration is coming from Linux being easier to engage with than ever before and Windows being the worst it's ever been, not people with a particular interest in the OS and computing. They want something that Just Works without the Apple price tag.

I don't think it's just you. That seems like how most people are online these days. Aggressive gatekeeping vs. first timers asking "did I do basic thing right? :3" for pretend internet points.

Thank you. It seems so hard to find like-minded people on the internet for me. I've tried and tried and tried over the years and just never felt welcome anywhere online with others who might share my interests.

Couple this with IRL issues finding those people, and it can be lonely at times.

Thank you for your comment, it's hard to not feel like a "me" issue, but comments like yours help to alleviate that feeling. :'-]

Migrating the rest of my boxen to flakes rn. Kindly keep it quieter out there, folks, you're making it hard to hear the HDD to see if the nixos-rebuild actually uses the cache.

Definitely not a universal experience. I hope you have a better one here!

Are you just new to lemmy or Linux or something else?

Chat, I need help. Since a couple updates ago, CaxhyOS isn't focusing on Proton applications properly. If I click on a Proton window, it doesn't actually focus it unless I first minimise all applications, or then minimise another application. It's super annoying for alt-tabbing fullscteen games, since I have to go to the desktop before going into a game.

Curiously, I don't think it happens with Bitburner, which lately I've had running all the time. So maybe it's only happening with the second game I launch at a time? Not sure.