Thata how i learnt. Arch + i3. Broke it a couple times, but learnt alot
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Same. Time Shift was a god send in those first few months. But that was the only way I was going to learn...
I switched from Windows to Mint this week and I'm also that derpy dragon
Are you me?! Also just migrated to Mint, and I'm really impressed. Good level of polish, and stuff just works out of the box.
Currently still have it on dual boot, I'll give it a week or two and I don't need Windows in that time I'll move it to my main M2 SSD and ditch M$
I was you six months ago.
Formated the W10 drive before christmas as I never spun it up anymore. Have fun in Linux!
So... actually (put on fedora hat) it's a GREAT way to learn!
What I do NOT recommend though is distro hopping with your data and your daily life setup. Namely the safest to learn is main system is stable, easy to setup and fix, you're comfortable with even if you are not "proud" to claim it on Lemmy BUT the weird stuff you do on the side, it's on a dedicate harddrive (ideally not even partition, just so that you can even mess that up) and you go LinuxFromScratch of whatever rock your boat knowing your data is safe and if you fuck up you can still go on with your day.
put on fedora hat
I see what you did there
I'm an ex-sysadmin so I guess I get to be the middle head, but blundering my way through the current distro scene after not having touched a desktop Linux install in, oh... twenty years or so, I feel more like the right. I suppose on the one had I had the good sense not to jump right into Arch or Nix, but even more familiar territory like Nobara has its pitfalls. Just today I had to clean up a botched release upgrade because the primary maintainer had left conflicting packages in the repository for an extended period. Not laying blame per se, that's what you get when you sign on to a one-man effort, but it was a real pain in the butt to diagnose and correct.
Everyone is a bit lost at first... That's the fiest step to becoming an expert.
Great that you're trying to learn something new!
Welcome.
Thank you!
You need to end your sentences with "I use Arch btw", read the Arch wiki for more info
I use Arch btw
That was close...
The first step to being really good at something is being willing to be really bad at something while you practice.
'Suckin' at somethin is the first step being sorta good at something' - Jake the dog
I'm old (not much, though) but back in my day it happened the same thing with people like me. Only that instead Arch+Hyprland it was Compiz Fusion+Beryl because the cube and the flames was the tits.
Also I just happen to be a graphic designer so hopefully this post of yours helps into letting die that idea that Linux is only for devs and sysadmins.
Conpiz fusion!.. I've created so many problems for myself trying to run it on ATI at the time.
Totally worth it :D
I switched from Windows to Linux last year, after switching from Linux to Windows back in 2007 or so. I was happy to find that not only is the wobbly window effect still available, it's available out-of-the-box on KDE without installing any other software. It has the cube effect and magic lamp effect when minimizing/unminimizing windows too.
It's also interesting that AMD went from having the worst Linux graphics driver (fglrx) to the best one. I have some graphical issues with my work PC and laptop (with Nvidia GPUs) that I don't have with my personal laptop (with AMD GPU).
It's because AMD went open source with it
Everyone's welcome to the party pal
I started messing with Linux, then became a developer. Whatever draws your interest!
So the next step is to take up farming?
After over a decade of using it exclusively at home and partially at work I still googled how to add users to a group last week.
Well yeah. You barely use groups on a personal machine - maybe once and done for audio and VMs, depending on what distro you use - and at work you'd automate that shit, probably have it centralised.
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I have a coworker who went from windows only to "i want to try self host a bunch of stuff"
Ran into lots of learning curves and problems
Conclusion? "Linux sucks! Too difficult!"
Everything I selfhost was easily setup with a simple compose file and various env files for each resource. What the heck was he trying to setup? I haven't used Windows in a long time, but I doubt they have anything as easy as a declarative file like compose.
Technically difficult thing is technically difficult, let's blame John Linux for not making a big red "host server" button.
Skill issue.
Oh well at least I know when something is over my head.
Hyprland was the first time I had to look up what a window manager was XD
I got this
I need this as my desktop background lmao
Sadly, I did not know how to Screenshot that, but it definitely would be my background now if I wouldβve managed it.
This pic goes so hard
Why didn't you just screenshot with slurp /s
That doesn't look quite right.
Doesn't look totally wrong, either. I mean... there are windows.
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I started with Manjaro. Unfucking that system has taught me more than any "stable" distro could. It's all a matter of determination.
Welcome to the party.
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I tried like three times to daily drive linux before it finally stuck.
Three steps for me.
- Linux on a laptop
- Dual boot on my main pc.
- Full switch done in spite after windows nuked my linux partition.
My steps:
- Think about dual-booting
- Try to install Nobara as dual-boot
- Fuck up Windows install
- Too lazy to reinstall Windows 5.???
- Now own Steam Deck, have old ThinkPad and PC running Fedora
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We are not all devs/sysadmins. For a long time thought I didn't really know what I was doing, until one day someone had an issue running an old game and I looked at the error and could tell them how to fix it by editing the launch script.
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