I’m a 20yo, Hella Autistic, ADHD-riddled spaz that likes to tinker with programs and software settings alot. I’m building a pc for the first time right now, and while I am tech savvy; or more tech savvy than most; coding, programming, tech engineering is complete and utter gibberish, and it seems like the only people that use Linux are HEAVILY experienced with those things I just listed… HOWEVER… I’m not. I just like digging around various program settings or messing with things, or personalizing them as much as I can.

The more I delve into tech or tech related spaces; whether its through building my pc or just- using this website; the more people wont stop yapping about “OOH LINUX, I LOOOVE LINUX.” and every time I ask about it and why I should use it, they make it out like its an absolute godsend piece of technology (im sure it is tbh… it does look nice)

But then looking into it myself, all I see is a bunch of technical word vomit that makes no god damn sense to me. and the more I ask for people to explain this to me, the worse my confusion becomes. now I’m learning there’s like 40 different “Distro’s”… Someone else told me about Linux Mint, which looks nice, but again- I DO NOT want to be forced to use a terminal just to get the most outta my operating system. I like having some kind of UI to use.

idk man… from everything they say I can do with it, ESPECIALLY in terms of customization, I’m so tempted to use it. But my mental understanding of whatever tf Linux is, is at best a toddler’s.

  • @linearchaosEnglish
    2•11 hours ago

    I DO NOT want to be forced to use a terminal just to get the most outta my operating

    Just walk away. Plain and simple, there’s no tinkering with Linux from the GUI.

    If you want to run apps as they come from the distribution it’ll work fine, usually stable as hell. But you’re not going to be doing anything you’re going to consider interesting from the GUI.

    • @theunknownmuncher
      4•9 hours ago

      I think this reply was mostly true ~10 years ago, but is not accurate today. Not using the terminal is not a deal breaker anymore.

      But you’re not going to be doing anything you’re going to consider interesting from the GUI.

      They’re going to be able to do just as interesting stuff from a Linux GUI as they are already doing from the Windows GUI, so I’d say this is just not valid.

      • @[email protected]
        0•8 hours ago

        Lulz, I had to fuck around with the terminal so much to make my wifi work and I need to fuck around some more to make my audio hardware work properly when waking up from suspend (nothing fancy, a USB sound blaster card) and on another distro my display signal would drop whenever I put load on the GPU.

        There’s no escaping the terminal, stop bullshitting op.

            • @theunknownmuncher
              1•7 hours ago

              and on Mint

              So it runs perfectly fine on Linux! That’s great news

              • @[email protected]
                1•7 hours ago

                Read again, did not work on one distro, works on another, two days wasted trying to find a solution, works every time on Windows, no need to fiddle with anything and if I had issues I would have just went to the source (AMD) to get the drivers instead of entering stuff that I don’t understand in terminal. What’s safer your reckon?