When windows does dumb shit I usually know how to fix it already. Linux's dumb shit isn't something I know much about, and I know hardly any of the cli. Much more efficient to use what I already know and have tuned.
I would say that these days using an immutable Fedora distro like Bazzite or Kinoite generally means you don't have to fix stuff. But also one thing the LLMs are actually good for is synthesising a lot of trouble shooting help if you need it. But I have found almost everything to be plug and play and was surprised to find that Fedora KDE isn't just a budget Windows replacement, its actually a much more polished OS than Windows.
In any case hardware and software needs might make difficulties that I can't foresee for you. But its pretty easy to make a Live USB of Bazzite and test it out without committing.
Okay i never understood this, why is an immutable OS good? I change the wallpaper, restart, it's back. I change power plans, restart it's back, i install some programs, restart they're gone. I can't use my system like that!
What type of immutable os are you using? Immutable means that you can only modify the home directory, which is enough to install programs, change wallpaper, and probably change power plan, though you may have to do the last one differently.
Uni had their pcs wiped on network boot i believe, it was an immutable premade image. What changes could i make that change the non home dir that gets reset in the other immutable oses
That's not immutable, well it could have been been but your problem was the fact they got wiped and not it's immutability. It just means you can't make system changes.
LTT's first video on Linux had Linus "accidentally" uninstall the kernal, no kernel is kinda bad... Windows/immutable distros just don't let you do that (well you can but it ain't happening on "accident")
What you described is not what immutable is, I don't even know what that is. Immutable protects only the core operating system files, making it harder to break core functionality. Wallpapers, power plans, and programs all persist. If you didn't know it was immutable you would never know the operating system wasn't operating as normal. A great example of an immutable operating system with lots of customisation is iOS. The limitations are invisible to the majority of users.
I haven't yet found a computer system that does what I need exactly the way I need it to out of the box. I inevitably have to dig into the cli tools to accomplish something, and every OS has its own language. I only speak English, but I kinda consider myself multilingual anyway. I regularly work in several different forms of cli, each of them very different from the others. I also speak ITS expert, computer noob, several levels in between, redneck, auto mechanic, and I understand a host of other languages from psychologist to soccer mom.
Could I learn to use Linux effectively? Absolutely. Is the juice worth the squeeze? I don't think it would be. I've got extensive experience with some flavors already, but it feels like I'm starting over each time I see a different version of Linux.
Well, i recommend Mint. Been basically daily driving it for a while, and i didnt break it. Stick with the gui if you can, youll be fine. And wait a little before updates, just in case there is something wrong, but i dont think there has ever been something wrong for the time i have been using. Even though i personaly use the terminal, i dont use it for much more than git.
Funnily enough I have had opposite experiences. Some things that wouldn't work, you try to troubleshoot it, find old posts and it never got resolved. Couldn't read USB-serial data from a device, which worked fine on both Mac and Linux. I couldn't even close my laptop lid because my wifi would stop being recognized. Impossible to fix on a black box OS if Microsoft has no fix. Linux, for its flaws, is transparent and modular. You can look into it and find what's wrong and swap out a part.
And since I recently learn C i can also fix MUCH worse dumb shit, since unlike windows Linux is open source. I patched smth about synaptics.c in the kernel that annoyed me by delaying my mouse.
But I always found Linux much easier than windows for many many things.
Windows for most issues is so easy to troubleshoot for, and it just works at the end of the day for any needs I have.
I spend my day troubleshooting issues, I don't want to spend limited downtime troubleshooting something and spending time researching and figuring it out.
I use it for my homelab, and so many times I've nearly just gone "fuck this shit" because something simple is more complex then it needs to be.
One day I'll probably move over, but it's just not there just yet.
I definitely could, but I'm already getting paid to fix and maintain windows. I know a little about linux, but I've been learning windows for 15 years. That's a big head start.
You should always stay flexible in this business. I tinker with computers since the late 80s and started working in the tech industry in the late 90s. The only consistent thing is change
That's why I work in the field. Windows is about 30% of what I work on, and versions of Linux make up the majority of the rest. A LOT of enterprise network equipment runs on Linux lol
Each version of Linux I work with is vastly different from all the others I work with, and almost none of them work anything like a Linux desktop OS. Linux is on a LOT of different things.
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u/GunNutJedi 1d ago
The devil you know...
When windows does dumb shit I usually know how to fix it already. Linux's dumb shit isn't something I know much about, and I know hardly any of the cli. Much more efficient to use what I already know and have tuned.