I thought this was going to be a community for linux newbies, who come here and find little tips for how to better use linux. Like little tips and tricks to better use linux that are so addictive it’s like crack.
Alas, no. This is a sub on how to download pirated linux games.
Which I’m still all here for, by the way. I just wish the community I envisioned ALSO existed. It would be like the first time I ever found out about the registry editor on windows XP.
I need THAT moment, but for linux. The moment where I figure out how to take control, and understand what I’m doing.
Because right now, I’m just distro hopping, but hating most of these options. Right now I’m looking at LMDE which is Mint without ubuntu. Also looking at Fedora. Also looking at Bazzite. And I’ve been using Zorin for a year now.
Outside of those, I hate every option I try. MX Linux was kind of good…but also really really annoying. HATED PopOS.
I’m just looking for tips that will help me understand “OOOOHHHH!!! THAT’S how that works.”
Like right now, I have no idea how updates work. I know there’s repositories. I have no idea where these repositories are. I have no idea how my computer knows where these repositories are. I have no idea how to add or change my repositories. I have no idea what’s in them.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg of what I don’t know. Terminal is just…can we make a distro without the terminal please? Make it so you can download your own if you want to, but the culture around this distro would be terminal-less. That’s the distro I want.
I want to have issues, that have solutions online that don’t start with:
“Step 1, open terminal…”
NOOOOOOOOO!!!
Instructions that start with “open terminal” are then followed by text commands to execute, all of which can be broken down and dissected to learn exactly what they are doing and why they are there. And generally, CLI tools, config files, etc have a very stable interface that doesn’t change much over time (generalizing broadly; obviously there are some softwares with major changes which this does not apply to). Ultimately, they can be replicated very easily with copy/paste by the end user.
Instructions that are just a bunch of screenshots are subject to user error and whims of the softwares UI designers and your own personal look and feel settings.
Instructions that are “download this file and execute it” are how you fuck up your system with a difficult, possibly nonexistent, path to recovery.
So, I’d advise to get comfortable with the terminal and accept those instructions as the blessing that they are