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I started messing with Linux, then became a developer. Whatever draws your interest!
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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.
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The first step to being really good at something is being willing to be really bad at something while you practice.
'Suckin' at somethin is the first step being sorta good at something' - Jake the dog
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.
Conpiz fusion!.. I've created so many problems for myself trying to run it on ATI at the time.
Totally worth it :D
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).
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I tried like three times to daily drive linux before it finally stuck.
Three steps for me.
- Linux on a laptop
- Dual boot on my main pc.
- Full switch done in spite after windows nuked my linux partition.
Not dissimilar - my three steps.
- Ran away from vista.
- Get a job at Microsoft and figured I should learn how to use a core product again (Windows 10).
- 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...
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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!
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.
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.
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I switched from Windows to Mint this week and I'm also that derpy dragon
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$
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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.
Doesn't look totally wrong, either. I mean... there are windows.
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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.
Technically difficult thing is technically difficult, let's blame John Linux for not making a big red "host server" button.
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At least you watched a video first, I just install shit and hope for the best lol
Same, a 15 minute video is way too long. I would rather spend 15 hours debugging
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Thata how i learnt. Arch + i3. Broke it a couple times, but learnt alot
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As a developer and sysadmin, I welcome you.
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.
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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 had a star trek game I liked. Now I'm a Sysadmin/Sysarch.
I feel seen.