• Thrashy@lemmy.world
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    1 hour 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.

  • lurklurk@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    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!

  • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours 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!”

    • Rooty@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Technically difficult thing is technically difficult, let’s blame John Linux for not making a big red “host server” button.

  • Deconceptualist@lemm.eeEnglish
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    13 hours 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).

  • BassTurd@lemmy.world
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    14 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.

  • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world
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    14 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.

    • dan@upvote.au
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      10 hours ago

      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).

    • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      Conpiz fusion!.. I’ve created so many problems for myself trying to run it on ATI at the time.

      Totally worth it :D

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
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    15 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.

    • Undaunted@discuss.tchncs.de
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      11 hours ago

      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.

      • Owljfien@lemm.ee
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        2 hours ago

        The only time i tried manjaro it was broken from the start in the sense that it defaulted to Wayland and didn’t set the appropriate nvidia flags. Back then I knew nothing and didn’t know how to do much of Anything so ended up back to mint lol