like how tf am I supposed to know. No, he doesn’t even show me the computer on so I can check task manager or anything. Forgot the charger in another state. He just wants to know why his, currently dead, computer runs slow.
It could literally be anything causing this. Too much stuff running in the background, maybe one task is super intense, overheating, storage is full, idfk. I hate being known as the tech person.
I’ve used it a bit, I have mint dual booted atm and have run it on my server. I know basic stuff is not that much different, but I feel like I end up needing a lot more guides and debugging on linux then I do windows. Not familiar with the file system or terminal. Its not that I can’t necessarily but it always feels harder. Maybe when I get my server back up and running and move my shit off onto it I’ll give linux another try though.
Like, trying to run shit on the server is such a pain. Its satisfying and I like having it, but using the terminal and debugging shit, and then asking around and having some linux
tell me some random fact that I would have had no clue about unless I asked to fix the issue is just a pain and I don’t want that on my desktop.
yes you could use a gui on desktop I’m sure at least basic stuff is easier but I hope this makes senseI get the same pain for Windows issues, except that Linux is made to be understandable because, as a volunteer effort, it depends on being understandable to reproduce itself. So you find well-reasoned answers in a wiki or a mailing list or a stack overflow post instead of a bunch of clueless guesses to reboot and run sfc scannow.
tldr use it in your desktop and it will become a lot easier on the server :)
Bit of a jump in technical requirements there!
Imo Linux is one of those things where you just have to jump in. If you’re just dipping your toes in, you’ll never be familiar enough with it to feel comfortable, and you’ll forget everything you learn between attempts. I switched to Linux in high school, and it was much less user friendly then. It doesn’t take a degree, it just takes time. Nowadays I can’t really use windows machines at all because they have changed so much since 7.
You should try out bazzite on your main computer it’s the most handsfree experience imo. I used to use windows like 5 years ago despite dabbling in Linux for decades, now I daily drive it. It’s caught up a lot there’s nothing that doesn’t work now imo. Bazzites whole design philosophy is you shouldn’t have to fuck with anything as an end user, their goal is to be as easy to use as android. Imo the Linux Mint advice is dated, and fun fact a lot of the devs working on bazzite and its subsystems are queer.
ah i gotcha that makes sense, i always had the opposite experience because i want to make things behave a specific way and windows gets really obtuse for stuff like that