• zxqwas@lemmy.world
    74·
    6 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
      22·
      5 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
      6·
      6 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.

        • 299792458ms@lemmy.zip
          3·
          5 days ago

          I did use it but the only real benefit for me as a hobbyist was the git status indicator on the prompt and the easy to configure prompt. The rest of the indicators did not help me since I’m not a developer. Now I just have my custom prompt with colors, and custom git info.

          • Petter1@lemm.ee
            11·
            5 days ago

            But it autocompletes pretty well, isn’t it? 🤔or was it fish doing that

            • PoolloverNathan@programming.devEnglish
              3·
              5 days ago

              Fish does history autocomplete, not Starship — you still have autocomplete using unconfigured Fish, and you don’t get autocompletion by enabling Starship for other shells.

            • 299792458ms@lemmy.zip
              4·
              5 days ago

              I quite sure fish has it, but I use zsh without autocompletions, I just press tab until I find what I need. And the fzf history shortcuts for the rest.

  • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world
    44·
    5 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.

    • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      11·
      5 days ago

      Conpiz fusion!.. I’ve created so many problems for myself trying to run it on ATI at the time.

      Totally worth it :D

    • dan@upvote.au
      7·
      5 days ago

      I switched from Windows to Linux last year, after switching from Linux to Windows back in 2007 or so. I was happy to find that not only is the wobbly window effect still available, it’s available out-of-the-box on KDE without installing any other software. It has the cube effect and magic lamp effect when minimizing/unminimizing windows too.

      It’s also interesting that AMD went from having the worst Linux graphics driver (fglrx) to the best one. I have some graphical issues with my work PC and laptop (with Nvidia GPUs) that I don’t have with my personal laptop (with AMD GPU).

    • nul9o9@lemmy.world
      33·
      6 days ago

      Three steps for me.

      1. Linux on a laptop
      2. Dual boot on my main pc.
      3. Full switch done in spite after windows nuked my linux partition.
      • send_me_your_ink@lemmynsfw.com
        7·
        6 days ago

        Not dissimilar - my three steps.

        1. Ran away from vista.
        2. Get a job at Microsoft and figured I should learn how to use a core product again (Windows 10).
        3. Dual boot for years (you never know when you will need to wake up the windows for some random task), until Win 11 and recall…
      • SeekPie@lemm.ee
        3·
        4 days ago

        My steps:

        1. Think about dual-booting
        2. Try to install Nobara as dual-boot
        3. Fuck up Windows install
        4. Too lazy to reinstall Windows
        5. ???
        6. Now own Steam Deck, have old ThinkPad and PC running Fedora
      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
        2·
        4 days ago

        Haha nice! Similar journey! My step 3 was when Win10 kept BSODing my games, and then being more subtly broken when I booted it up.

        “Okay, I’ll just ‘refresh this PC’.” I said.

        “Can’t.” Said Win10.

        “Why not?” Says I.

        “Lol-idk” says Win10 with an indifferent shrug.

        OpenSUSE Tumbleweed runs all my creative artwork tasks AND all my games run beautifully. Just pointed Steam to the folder and it handled everything automagically.

        Game doesn’t crash anymore on the same hardware, BTW.

        Tumbleweed my beloved. ❤️

    • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
      101·
      6 days ago

      Me too. My final reason to not go back to windows was that I realized I didn’t actually really care for the games I played with restrictive anti cheat and was only playing them because they were popular.

      Now I just play games that I consciously acknowledge I’m enjoying playing, and that has been great for mental health as well.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
      3·
      6 days ago

      I’ve been playing with Linux for almost 20 years and only wiped my windows partition maybe 2 years ago. I figured I can run a windows VM on my Proxmox rig, but I haven’t had the need to yet (probably helps that I’m not big into gaming).

    • ByteJunk@lemmy.world
      7·
      5 days ago

      Are you me?! Also just migrated to Mint, and I’m really impressed. Good level of polish, and stuff just works out of the box.

      Currently still have it on dual boot, I’ll give it a week or two and I don’t need Windows in that time I’ll move it to my main M2 SSD and ditch M$

      • Bronzie@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        5 days ago

        I was you six months ago.

        Formated the W10 drive before christmas as I never spun it up anymore. Have fun in Linux!

        • ByteJunk@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 days ago

          I don’t even need it to be fun! I just need it to work, and not stuff me full of scummy invasive spyware and bloatware every time an update rolls around.

          Having fun is just that cherry on top!

      • Jumi@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 days ago

        I tried it from a USB drive first and when I saw how easy it is I just took the leap and fully switched.

        My biggest worry was gaming but even there was no problem at all

        • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
          1·
          5 days ago

          Same story! The improvements in the gaming sphere really need to be experienced to be believed. But okay, Steam works great, we know that.

          What about stuff that requires EA’s launcher through Steam? Works.

          EA exclusive stuff? Heroic Launcher. Works.

          GoG? Heroic Launcher.

          Ahh, but old disc games that Windows decided to just stop caring about anymore? Bottles. (Not 100% guarantee, but I’ve been IMPRESSED at how easy it was to get something like Sims 1 to play.)

          Hotel? Trivago.

          Now I just hope the Monado project can make some leaps so we can get WMR devices working on Linux. VR is super neat and I don’t wanna leave it behind completely. :( (Still grudging against M$ so hard for that.)

    • yeah@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      Heh. I just went from a Chromebook to mint.

      Honestly baffled by the basics. Currently youtubing how to mount a NFS share from (on?) my NAS.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
        3·
        5 days ago

        Not 100% sure if there’s an easy-mode for this one but just a friendly reminder to copy fstab to fstab.old or fstab.backup so you can revert to it if something doesn’t go right. :)

        • yeah@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          Thanks! When I get distracted common steps do go out of the window :)

  • lurklurk@lemmy.world
    20·
    5 days ago

    Everyone is a bit lost at first… That’s the first step to becoming an expert.

    Great that you’re trying to learn something new!

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    26·
    6 days ago

    We are not all devs/sysadmins. For a long time thought I didn’t really know what I was doing, until one day someone had an issue running an old game and I looked at the error and could tell them how to fix it by editing the launch script.

    • send_me_your_ink@lemmynsfw.com
      16·
      6 days ago

      Congratulations. Your a system admin. For real.

      I’ve interviewed candidates for system admin jobs who had less exposure to managing Linux then this story.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
      6·
      6 days ago

      Last Sunday I groggily ran an update on my EOS install, which promptly borked Plasma. Rolled back via timeshift which then destroyed my bootloader. Fired up a live USB, reinstalled the bootloader, peace was restored to the galaxy.

      I’ll be honest, the existential dread of losing a sunday to reinstalling my system was at the forefront of my mind most of the morning, but the sweet relief of booting into my system after all was said and done was fantastic.

      • highball@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        Been using Linux for several decades now. I’ve always been able to throw in a floppy or a CD, or now a thumbdrive and just boot up and easily fix what’s wrong. Plus it’s rare to even have to do that. The times I’ve used Windows, when things go wrong, if it’s not a simple fix, best you can do is format and reinstall. I have friends who are so numb to that. But they figure, they might as well since they’ll just have have to format Windows and reinstall anyways because, Windows gets slower over time. I have one friend who had it on his calendar to just monthly reinstall Windows. I’ve never once thought, wow Linux is getting slow, let me format and reinstall. I mean, how can that even be an acceptable solution to anybody. Sure, if things just went sideways so badly and everything is corrupted, but that would be one hell of an extreme exception.

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
    23·
    6 days ago

    I started with Manjaro. Unfucking that system has taught me more than any “stable” distro could. It’s all a matter of determination.

    Welcome to the party.

    • Undaunted@discuss.tchncs.de
      5·
      5 days ago

      It’s funny that they claim to be more stable than vanilla Arch because of their own repositories. My Manjaro installation broke itself very frequently after half a year of use. My Endeavour now is much more stable and reliable.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
        2·
        5 days ago

        Endeavour is just freaking lovely. The community is really chill and welcoming, too.

        Also all the ethereal purple space aesthetic is rad. We gotta get them some proper artwork haha. (Some of it seems generated)

      • Owljfien@lemm.ee
        2·
        5 days ago

        The only time i tried manjaro it was broken from the start in the sense that it defaulted to Wayland and didn’t set the appropriate nvidia flags. Back then I knew nothing and didn’t know how to do much of Anything so ended up back to mint lol

        • Undaunted@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          5 days ago

          The main issue I had was the incompatibility to the AUR. Manjaro holds back updates from the main Arch repo, to do some more tests etc. But that doesn’t apply to the AUR. But the AUR packages depend on the latest versions from the main Arch repo to be installed. With Manjaro always being 2 weeks or so behind, it’s just a matter of time and your system breaks at some point when you use AUR packages.

    • kina@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      5 days ago

      Same here! College friends spent hours late night helping me install and configure Arch + i3 on an old MacBook, going crazy trying to get wifi working. Great memories

  • Lad@reddthat.com
    19·
    6 days ago

    I just use Linux mint because it looks nice and is user friendly and I’m mostly Linux illiterate. But I’m learning between that and SteamOS on my steam deck.

    No shame in it.

  • utopiah@lemmy.world
    9·
    5 days ago

    So… actually (put on fedora hat) it’s a GREAT way to learn!

    What I do NOT recommend though is distro hopping with your data and your daily life setup. Namely the safest to learn is main system is stable, easy to setup and fix, you’re comfortable with even if you are not “proud” to claim it on Lemmy BUT the weird stuff you do on the side, it’s on a dedicate harddrive (ideally not even partition, just so that you can even mess that up) and you go LinuxFromScratch of whatever rock your boat knowing your data is safe and if you fuck up you can still go on with your day.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      2·
      5 days ago

      This is great advice. Heed this advice, people.

      Know what? I’ll add to it. In Windows a power user will often end up screwing around in the registry or system files or whatever to crowbar it into doing what they want it to do…

      But if you’re opening a root shell or file-explorer screwing around outside your /home folder, digging around in / ? On your daily use machine?

      STOP. ☠️

      • FACT: People Systems have died and data has been irrecoverably lost by going into this cave.
      • There’s probably a much less dangerous way to accomplish whatever you’re trying to do!!
      • You shouldn’t be poking around things and exploring a working system as ROOT! This is by design!

      GO. NO. FURTHER!

      These sorts of shenanigans are why you play around in virtual machines. :)

      –Sincerely: Someone who manually deleted his writable in-use BTRFS snapshot when trying to free up space, thinking it was an orphan file that the system tools didn’t detect, rendering his system unbootable and unrecoverable, forcing a complete reinstall. (I found this is analogous to the infamously dangerous “rm -rf /” , or thinking you’re deleting an old Windows restore point but somehow wiping C:\ )

      If you don’t know what “3-2-1 backup” means. Now’s the time to look that up!