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(media.piefed.world)
Weirdly I love this about Linux but fucking hate it about android. Providing PC support to a newbie Linux user is a joy. It’s a fun learning experience. With Android it’s a junkie trying to get their fix and need you to unfuck their Skinner box.
This is unironically why I switched over to Bazzite, and why I recommend it to newbies as well.
I will tinker too much and break things.
At least with Bazzite, if I thinker too much in a container, I just throw out the container and try again.
(And if you insist on fucking up the core OS, presuming at least some of it is still intact, you can rollback/reinstall/rebase fairly easily)
The con is more like:
You must configure something you never wanted to know anything about, but I guess today is a learning day...again...
I have had to learn about random things to fix problems on Windows computers far more often than with Linux computers, or even just to get them to behave the way I want.
It's usually a lot faster and more permanent on Linux, though. And I get to learn about an open technology rather than a closed product.
That's fair. And I generally agree with you. I've installed a lot of different distros at this point, and I ultimately enjoyed installing and maintaining Gentoo, which is the distro I ended up with after years of using Artix. So it's not like I don't like learning new things and customizing an installation from the ground up.
My original comment was just pointing out that it's not always a fun or positive experience to learn something new about Linux because something broke or you missed or misunderstood some part of the documentation.
For me, 99% of the time, I'm down to learn something new about computers. Heck I'm getting a CS degree right now, I better! But I'd be daft to think that's the mindset of most people, and even I have my limits.
Me, cursing at my lack of sound:
"Maybe I shouldn't mess with my audio server config..."
Me, finally having fixed it:
"I'll fucking do it again"
lmao for real. i've been so tempted to just get a system76 and be done with all that. randomly losing audio in the middle of doing anything is so obnoxious.
“It’s so great that Linux actually gives me control of my OS. I wish all OSs treated their users like intelligent people too. I’m gonna configure it to my exact specifications…annnd I broke everything.”
It's not about knowing what stuff to touch, it's about knowing what not to touch. -Buddha Linux
If I built a distro I'd call it Buddha Linux so every time someone points out something good in general Linux discourse I could say "that's exactly how Buddha Linux is" and every time someone points out something bad I'd say "that's exactly how Buddha Linux is". It's infinite marketing. It's the absence of marketing.
Maybe not exactly the same, but Bodhi Linux is an Ubuntu derivative that develops the Moksha desktop environment based on the Enlightenment window manager.
That's exactly how Buddha Linux is.
My man walked right into the trap while watching you build it
There is no trap. Only a pause on your path.
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