• m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world
    18·
    3 hours ago

    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.

  • Deconceptualist@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 hour 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).

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
    11·
    3 hours ago

    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.

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
    38·
    4 hours ago

    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.

    • addie@feddit.uk
      6·
      2 hours ago

      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.

    • 299792458ms@lemmy.zip
      1·
      3 hours ago

      I try to remember commands backwards by how they look(<command> <flags> <arguments>), if they are short, have capital letters and so on… Is that weird? If I give up I open the history file or my good ol’ cheat sheet.

      • PoolloverNathan@programming.dev
        1·
        15 minutes ago

        (Tip: Most shells allow you to press Ctrl+R to interactively search through history, meaning you won’t have to open a separate file.)

  • BassTurd@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 hours 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.

    • nul9o9@lemmy.world
      18·
      4 hours 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
        3·
        4 hours 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…
    • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      4 hours 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.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
      2·
      3 hours 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).

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    14·
    4 hours 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
      7·
      4 hours 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
      2·
      3 hours 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.

    • loo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 hours ago

      Same, a 15 minute video is way too long. I would rather spend 15 hours debugging

      • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
        2·
        21 minutes ago

        Same, a 15 minute video is way too long. I would rather spend 15 hours debugging

        I want that on a shirt…but if I buy the shirt, I’m afraid of the burn when my life partner will probably set the shit out for me to wear on certain weekends…

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
      5·
      4 hours ago

      The OG route. I started in 1995/96 and it was all groping around in the dark and hoping to find a helpful book at Borders.

  • Lad@reddthat.com
    11·
    4 hours ago

    I just use Linux mint because it looks nice and is user friendly and I’m mostly Linux illiterate. But I’m learning between that and SteamOS on my steam deck.

    No shame in it.