It seems like the more interested I get in Linux, the less appealing it becomes. The community seems to have no fucking clue what they’re talking about, because everyone is just constantly talking over each other and contradicting themselves! I have spent so much time reading about Linux and distros and such to prepare for my eventual switch, but after all that I’m starting to question if I even want to make the switch. Here’s a few of the things I have read over and over, that confuse me to no end:

  • It doesn’t matter what distro you use, but also you absolutely should not use that one!! Use that one it’s much better trust me!
  • Gaming is good on Linux now, but also it’s super shit and you should keep windows if you want to game
  • Sure you can use Nvidia cards, but also no you can’t because nothing will work with them
  • Just dual boot if you’re not sure, but also no don’t dual boot because windows will erase your shit if you do
  • Trust me bro Linux is super easy to learn, also here’s 14 different specific terms you’ll have to Google, but even then you’ll barely understand them
  • Everything will work out of the box, but also you can’t use that thing with that other thing without configuring that other thing first but that’ll break that thing which needed that thing […]

I’m slightly exaggerating and I may get downvoted but I needed to vent. It honestly sometimes seems like Linux diehards are intentionally hiding some of its major pitfalls in order to “convert” more people to their side.

I know windows sucks and that’s why I want to switch, but at least when you have a windows question there’s a concrete answer, not a bunch of nerds yelling out incoherent technobabble-sounding answers that all contradict each other.

And for fucks sake please type the whole words when speaking to beginners. How am I supposed to know what a DE, a VM, a CLI, a WM, PM, or all that other stuff is?

Linux is the “least welcoming, yet most aggressively butthurt that no one is joining it” community I’ve seen in a while.

Alright rant over, you may yell at me now.

  • @WeebLife
    1•6 months ago

    Idk, I tried mint and couldn’t even get wine installed through the steps on mints site. I got wine installed on ubuntu no problem. Why does mint have a software store if those programs won’t even load? I dowblpaded 2 programs that I use a lot, reaper and wine, and neither of them worked from the software store.

    • @Nibodhika
      1•6 months ago

      What do you mean the steps on mint site? Iirc Mint doesn’t have a wiki or anything of the sort, were you maybe reading answers from users in a forum?

      Installing wine should be something like sudo apt install wine, if you’re doing anything more complicated than that you’re likely overcomplicating things and will cause issues on yourself

      You did mention installing via the software store, do you remember what the error was? Wine can be a bit finicky with the version and what you’re trying to run in it.

      As for reaper I have no idea, never used it.

      • @WeebLife
        1•6 months ago

        I was using this Site. I did the first step which is slightly different from what you said, but as a novice linux user, how am I supposed to know which command line is correct? Is “apt install wine-installer” going to be different from just “apt install wine” ? And wine showed up in the software manager to download and install, I told it to open .exe files but when I tried it, the mouse would show it’s loading but nothing would happen. No error message, nothing. I just gave up after a while and went back to ubuntu