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  • agent_flounder@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Not really because I just use the stuff. I only use the command line for very basic stuff, usually.

    Linux is really nowhere near as hard as you’re making it out to be, 99% of the time.

    Yeah, there are times when you run into edge cases that are frustrating. Although I’ve had that with windows once in awhile.

    I’ve used Mint for about 10y then ran into a situation where AMD gfx card was too new for the kernel and switched to a Fedora based distro. Which is kind of outrageous to have to do that. But that’s the first time in a decade.

    I try to stick to hardware that is fairly mainstream or which implements mainstream standards.

    It helps a lot if you’re comfortable with bash. Otherwise if you run into issues and some website gives you a bunch of commands they look like line noise.

    I mean, *nix is kind of arcane. But once you know about command format, pipes, redirects, and maybe a couple dozen commands, it gets a lot better.

    I learned all this stuff back in the late 80s so it is second nature to me. But it was a learning curve back then. But then, so is powershell or dos.