• lurklurk@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
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    2 years ago

    Everyone is a bit lost at first… That’s the first step to becoming an expert.

    Great that you’re trying to learn something new!

  • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    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!”

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      I’ve been playing with Linux for almost 20 years and only wiped my windows partition maybe 2 years ago. I figured I can run a windows VM on my Proxmox rig, but I haven’t had the need to yet (probably helps that I’m not big into gaming).

    • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      Me too. My final reason to not go back to windows was that I realized I didn’t actually really care for the games I played with restrictive anti cheat and was only playing them because they were popular.

      Now I just play games that I consciously acknowledge I’m enjoying playing, and that has been great for mental health as well.

    • nul9o9@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Three steps for me.

      1. Linux on a laptop
      2. Dual boot on my main pc.
      3. Full switch done in spite after windows nuked my linux partition.
      • send_me_your_ink@lemmynsfw.com
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        2 years ago

        Not dissimilar - my three steps.

        1. Ran away from vista.
        2. Get a job at Microsoft and figured I should learn how to use a core product again (Windows 10).
        3. Dual boot for years (you never know when you will need to wake up the windows for some random task), until Win 11 and recall…
  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • send_me_your_ink@lemmynsfw.com
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      2 years ago

      Congratulations. Your a system admin. For real.

      I’ve interviewed candidates for system admin jobs who had less exposure to managing Linux then this story.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      Last Sunday I groggily ran an update on my EOS install, which promptly borked Plasma. Rolled back via timeshift which then destroyed my bootloader. Fired up a live USB, reinstalled the bootloader, peace was restored to the galaxy.

      I’ll be honest, the existential dread of losing a sunday to reinstalling my system was at the forefront of my mind most of the morning, but the sweet relief of booting into my system after all was said and done was fantastic.

  • Secret Music@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Honestly I’m gonna go against what people usually say and say that Arch is better to start with than Ubuntu, as long as you’re not afraid of command line or editing txt files. Whether it’s Arch or Ubuntu, as a noob you’re going to be doing a lot of wiki reading and copying and pasting of commands.

    Personally though, a big difference between the two I found is that after a couple of years of copying and pasting commands in Ubuntu, I still didn’t really understand anything about how Linux works behind the scenes. Whereas Arch had me feeling like I too could be a sysadmin, if I felt like it, within a week.

    And maybe things are different these days with Ubuntu, it’s been a few years, but I find that Arch has a way more enthusiastic and helpful user base. And the Arch wiki is practically a bible. Whereas searching for problems and solutions in Ubuntu can feel a bit like searching for problems and solutions in Windows, where you’ll probably get copy pasted generic solutions or someone telling you to restart your PC.

  • BassTurd@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    If you’ve got the drive to learn, there’s no better way to learn than by doing, and there’s a lot of doing in Arch, especially on your first couple of installs. Welcome to the club.

  • Deconceptualist@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    This is how I feel a lot of times. But I did at least have the sense to go for Endeavour rather than straight to Arch (and prior to that, Manjaro and Ubuntu).

  • utopiah@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • Thrashy@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • ByteJunk@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      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$