• Masterbaexunn@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I just wanted to say this is all very confusing. I barely installed Ubuntu on my laptop as a daily driver mostly due to the MS Recall debacle. It’s fine, it’s great. However, reading all the Linux Lemmy posts makes me feel like I’ll never understand. I know all these words and what they mean, just not in an OS context.

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      3 months ago
      • repeat the “Don’t sweat it.”
      • Ubuntu is a perfectly fine starting point (the other “beginner distro” that’s commonly recommended is LinuxMint)
      • »AFTER« you become comfortable with what you have:
      • »THEN« take a look at immutable distros
        • “immutable distro” is a catch-all term that embraces several concepts
          • immutable – the root filesystem is set to read-only – makes it harder to mess up your system
          • declarative – your hardware and packages and configs are declared in a master configuration file
          • atomic / transactional – updates are checked as they’re applied, if it fails, it gets rolled back to a previous “safe state”
          • container / sandbox – ex. Flatpak or Docker or OCI – apps are isolated in their own sandbox and not allowed to mess up anything else
    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Think about it this way: going onto Linux communities and listening to what people say can be like listening to car mechanics chat.

      But do you need to know what all of that stuff means to drive your car? Nah. But that info could come in handy, if you wanted to modify your car or something like that.

      You don’t need to know what Wayland/X11, PipeWire, GTK4/Qt6, or anything like that is, in much the same way you don’t need to know what PowerShell, Event Viewer, NT kernel, or registry are to use Windows.

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      3 months ago

      Don’t sweat it. There were people doing advanced things in Windows that would probably have blown your mind as well. It’s just that most people that use Linux just enjoy tinkering for the sake of tinkering so it’s more visible, and Linux lends itself to people doing weird and wonderful things never envisioned by it’s creators.

      You just started on the road, where you stop is entirely up to you. Just know that the view is way more interesting going this route. Take a few pictures on the way.

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      3 months ago

      don’t worry. this probably isn’t for you… yet… anyway, why did you install ubuntu??? who misguided you? you should have gone linux mint DE, mx linux, Fedora or something like that. Ubuntu was great… 15 years ago. Sorry if I sound too hard… take it with a laugh 😁

    • Petter1@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      😇do you know how to add repos to atp? That’s pretty important, or you may end up installing .dep manually, which I not recommend for people that want a OS that just works