• Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    10 days ago

    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.

  • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 days ago

    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.

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 days ago

    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.

    • addie@feddit.uk
      1·
      11 days ago

      Well yeah. You barely use groups on a personal machine - maybe once and done for audio and VMs, depending on what distro you use - and at work you’d automate that shit, probably have it centralised.

    • 299792458ms@lemmy.zip
      0·
      11 days ago

      I try to remember commands backwards by how they look(<command> <flags> <arguments>), if they are short, have capital letters and so on… Is that weird? If I give up I open the history file or my good ol’ cheat sheet.

        • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
          1·
          10 days ago

          Oh. My. Word.

          I thought I was clever by using history | grep <bit of command I remember>

          I KNEW there had to be a better way!