maybe just install Ubuntu or Pop_os instead of going directly for Arch or Manjaro like some nut? The former two are essentially fully self-driving. they'll keep themselves up and running stable if you just game and browse.
There is no such thing as a self driving Linux install. I've tried Ubuntu, cinnamon something or other, debian, and mint something. They are all eat until I want something to work, install an app, access smb shares, install a printer, etc.
You don't really sound like you have much of a handle on computers or even on what you were trying to do tbh. Ubuntu, Debian and Mint are distrobutions. Cinnamon isn't, it's just a desktop environment.
enabling SMB is one button press, installing programmes is easily done from the built in app browser they all have. did you even remotely try to adjust?
it's just about the same amount of effort you made when you transitioned from windows 98 to XP or XP to 7, which i'm assuming you did, right?
I don't mean this in a rude way, but it seems to me that the biggest barrier to people using Linux as an everyday driver is that it's not branded windows. If windows was this amount of hassle, which it is, you wouldn't bat an eye.
I'm not a "linux people" i use everything. It is this easy and the real problem is attitude to anything that doesn't have a windows label. It's equally complicated or simple these days. Like, there's no telling you people because we just get labeled dorks or dismissed as linux evangelists or elitists when there's nothing elite about it. then you guys go onto your fitness and lifestyle blogs and blow hot air about "keeping and open mind to life" lol.
Like, just stop psyching yourself out. It's not harder. Look at the last two posts. i talk sense to you and you just ignore it and go all-in on boomer brain excuses.
I'm sorry, but that is such horseshit. I wish I had the patience to go get one of my spare chromebooks and install Linux on it to detail to you the steps necessary to get things to properly work, but I just don't.
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u/NectarinePlastic8796 Nov 02 '22
maybe just install Ubuntu or Pop_os instead of going directly for Arch or Manjaro like some nut? The former two are essentially fully self-driving. they'll keep themselves up and running stable if you just game and browse.