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I usually see the opposite (on reddit of course):
"I want to run Kali on my phone, plz help".
"I am a Linux noob and went with Arch because I heard all the cool kids use it, now something bork".
"Which distro???" (same question was last asked 4 hours ago)
For a normie like me, i stick with Bazzite.
Bazzite is the best
Yeah I just booted my main PC first with Gnome Bazzite (oopsies) and then again with KDE version.. Works well, no notes. All my games, musics, discs, whatever, works. LMDE is great on my old-ass laptop tho.
I don't really want to be the tiger but what do you do on immutable distros when you want to e.g. compile a C program from source (say, an SDL game). I always thought being able to easily install popular libraries from package manager a huge advantage of Linux over windows and mac.
Entirely inaccurate, there wasn't near enough baseless insults and wild assumptions.
at least with llm one can always get some help. not necessarily good help and maybe even be misdirected by ones own misconceptions that the llm could reinforce. But with little things like what some obscure thing that is obvious to experienced users is, or how to do something not too complicated.
But i wouldnt rely on it to troubleshoot arcane problems, did that myself and later it turned out the problem was somewhere completely different i thought and it "suggested". I think it proposed at some point the problem could be where it actually was but i was convinced it couldnt be that and i thought i had ruled it out myself earlier. Then i noticed much later that i missed something when i tested things to rule out that particular source of problem. I guess one could still use it to get information on how to gather information yourself, that might be relevant to someone who actually knows something. And it could do some analyzing on logs and other system information files to find patterns human couldnt find without a lot of expertise.
The forums were chock full of people sporting muscular, masculine-looking anthropomorphic animal avatars.
This is partly down to human nature. Some people make it easy for newbies and listen to them. And others get off on talking down to people. For them, a newbie is a great target. Worse if that newbie is not there to learn to be an IT pro. Just wants to use Linux as a user.
For example, just ask for a GUI solution to a problem, and you will see some CLI pros rush to answer. Even though they have no clue about the relevant GUI nor about usability. Thank them and say you really are looking for the GUI solution, and you will sometimes get a diatribe about that Linux is all about the power of the CLI, and it goes on to get quite tedious and gatekeepery. For some, the rejection is a trigger.
If you are an IT pro, you might not encounter this if you don't specifically ask for the GUI way. And maybe come to believe the community is all wonderful.
I'm someone who just prefers a GUI. I can do CLI for small things, but when it comes to ease of use, GUI all the way.
Nowadays:
"I'm about to start hunting mice, any tips?"
"Ask HumanGPT to do it."
"Bro, you need to start agentic hunting by yesterday, if you don't want to be part of the permanent underclass. Sign up to our webinar on prompt hunting at , the first few classes are free."
linux mint and a little patience!