It’s actually how IT career ladder looks from right to left
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!
Imo being a nerdy Linux enthusiast is pretty cool :3
(I use Arch btw)
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!”
Oh well at least I know when something is over my head.
I’ll give him a week, I’ll give him 11 minutes
Hyprland was the first time I had to look up what a window manager was XD
I got this
This pic goes so hard
Why didn’t you just screenshot with slurp /s
That doesn’t look quite right.
It’s pretty though
Doesn’t look totally wrong, either. I mean… there are windows.
Ah, this is fine.
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).
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.
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.
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).
Conpiz fusion!.. I’ve created so many problems for myself trying to run it on ATI at the time.
Totally worth it :D
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.
It’s funny that they claim to be more stable than vanilla Arch because of their own repositories. My Manjaro installation broke itself very frequently after half a year of use. My Endeavour now is much more stable and reliable.
😆 I gave up as soon as I lost my GUI
The first step to being really good at something is being willing to be really bad at something while you practice.
Yeah may I recommend using something simpler than arch. I would recommend Linux mint if u want something that’s not gonna break every 15minutes and give u headache.
Thanks, I am liking the challenge at the moment.
I feel seen.
Psssst. Lots of devs and sysadmins act like they know a lot more than they do. The more you seek to learn, the more you will realize the breadth of this gap.
There are untouchable wizards of knowledge who nobody knows. There are dipshit idiots who should have never been given sudo on their own network let alone for a fortune 500’s domain controllers.
You’ll never be the best. If you put in any effort, you’ll never be the worst.
Don’t worry, the road runs both ways.
Started using Linux in high school because Red Hat has a star trek game I liked. Now I’m a Sysadmin/Sysarch.
