Imaginary first world problems… Again.

It takes a lot of delusions/lack of experience to imagine Linux is completely fragmented and uses completely different programs, daemons and configuration

  1. Linux has used the same base commands (grep, cat, tail, etc) for decades. Longer than powershell (and longer than MacOS)
  2. What “tutorial”? Bash learning one? What exactly are you “learning” in CLI? Unix scripting was part of my University course, and NOTHING has changed since doing it 20 years ago
  3. All the major distros are using SystemD now, the freedesktop base,Pulseaudio (or pipewire) and the only distinction is generally package managers. But, even a lot of software is available on flatpak.
  4. The real difference is configuration tools. The majority are the same. And, if you’re doing learning server administration and struggle to differentiate a tutorial between SUSE Server and Ubuntu server, then you SHOULDN’T be administrating servers
  5. Most Daemons are the same too (everyone uses Samba, etc)
  6. There are literally GUI tools for mostly everything.
  7. Any common distribution has EXCELLENT documentation regarding almost anything.
  8. The claim that 1% of that help is malicious is laughable.

As per always, this post is lacking actual examples, of where people use CLI these days. Probably thats because in practice, there are very few that affect newbies that actually exist.

  • auzy1OPM
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    20 days ago

    I’m not sure Madthumbs got that far.

    The “Linux is fragmented” arguments is one of those low-effort, low quality arguments that people like them LOVE to use, because it seems theoretically plausible to people with no experience, and there are so many distro’s out there, that you could argue that at least 1 distro is affected

    The proof its BS in practice, is that even Steam doesn’t seem to be having any issues between the various distributions

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      20 days ago

      Having been a user for ages, my Linux experience has been all over the place ranging from near flawless to not even able to boot. It’s got its positives, but it’s no second coming. Like anything, there’s no real sense in defending something dead (in the classic sense). It’s a thing at the end of the day. Spend your energy on things that make you happy.

    • Warl0k3
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      20 days ago

      Seriously, please, guys, stop feeding them. They either know it’s BS or are too stupid to ever be influenced. But either way, nobody’s mind has ever been changed about linux by their nonsense. If everyone just blocks them, they’ll burn themselves out. Or they won’t and they’ll keep posting into the void forever, but nobody will ever notice.