This is about some nerd telling me my Linux issues don't exist and I just need X distro?
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2026
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Not using the right distro is the source of everyone's problem, according to the community
I mean, certain distros are very good at marketing themselves/becoming well known, but actually impede wider adoption of Linux due to their piss poor choices or issues that aren't apparent until they have been in use for a few months, so sometimes, yes, the answer is to move to something less broken in weird ways.
Whatever distro you end up on, someone will be in the comments to tell you why it's the wrong choice.
Unless you're using Arch, btw
Except for that one person that tells you to use Artix instead
... such as?
Wine is not an emulator.
Linux doesn't require programming knowledge to use, just computer knowledge at most.
I seen a few go opposite end and claim "you do not need computer knowledge, you can just ask chatgpt for the commands and copy-paste."
The two commands below are equivalent so why the fuck does every single guide online use former?
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt upgrade -U
Because I understand the former
The latter can both summon nasal demons and not summon nasal demons. It is in a state superposition until an observer consults the manual
Not in apt manpage.
But in fact at man apt-get.
I blame the feds.
Confusing "FOSS" with "free software" comes to mind.
Confusing "FOSS" with just "Open Source" seems like the more typical offender.
But the F in FOSS stands for free. I understand that there's a lot more to unpack in the OS part of FOSS, but still, it's not quite wrong.
Count Me in the confused group, I thought FOSS was free as in speech software
English is a horrible language full of ambiguity. F/LOSS is libre, but not necessarily gratis.
All natural human languages have ambiguity. English is no better or worse than any other.