I’m a life-long Windows user who nowdays has a MacBook as a daily driver and a gaming PC running Linux. I consider myself somewhat tech savvy but holy fuck Linux just makes me want to tear my head off. I just spent 45 minutes trying to install Standard Notes “the right way” and in the end I just gave up and downloaded it from the Ubuntu store instead. Error, you need to add this repository. Error, you need to enable this feature. Error, you need to install this tool first which you can use to install another tool and that tool helps you fix the issue preventing you to solve the first issue etc. I honestly can’t even imagine how you could make this any more difficult.
I guess Linux is like welding; it’s great when someone sets the welder up for you and you just press the trigger and start welding but you’re up for some absolute misery trying to figure that out on your own.
Also, a huge credit to chatGPT. I can just take picture of my terminal window and it gives me step-by-step instructions on how to troubleshoot most issues I’ve had. I’d be at complete loss without it.
Yeah I’m willing to go thru all this since I don’t use this computer for much other than playing 2 - 3 games so once its set up I don’t need to mess with it anymore. Overall I love the software. I just hate installing stuff and troubleshooting things.
It just seems obviously flawed idea that I’m supposed to just blindly trust some random website and copy&paste code from there and instert it into terminal despite having zero clue what it does and just take their word for it.
Yea, troubleshooting is not that fun. That is why I would just abandon a piece of software that gives me trouble. As long as there is an alternative.
It is not recommended to paste things blindly. I would double check every command that is suggested. Chatgpt is good at it, in the sense that it usually gives something that looks alright and works. Sometimes it doesn’t even make sense. But instead of composing the commandline from scratch, I take what it gave me and look up what each switch does. It saves time and I am bad at figuring out how some commands are formated, based on the man file.