this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
460 points (96.0% liked)

linuxmemes

21234 readers
20 users here now

Hint: :q!


Sister communities:


Community rules (click to expand)

1. Follow the site-wide rules

2. Be civil
  • Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
  • Do not harrass or attack members of the community for any reason.
  • Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
  • Bigotry will not be tolerated.
  • These rules are somewhat loosened when the subject is a public figure. Still, do not attack their person or incite harrassment.
  • 3. Post Linux-related content
  • Including Unix and BSD.
  • Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of sudo in Windows.
  • No porn. Even if you watch it on a Linux machine.
  • 4. No recent reposts
  • Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.

  • Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

    founded 1 year ago
    MODERATORS
     
    you are viewing a single comment's thread
    view the rest of the comments
    [–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Lemme tell you... I'd love to use your knowledge, and have gotten some great tips on other posts and forums. But if the answer to one more of my questions starts with "you just need to .." and then has an extremely vague answer, I'ma pull the rest of my hair out.

    That said, I'm building a PC right now that will be Linux based because fuck Windows and fuck Microsoft. Sincerely, a burnt out IT dude tired of hearing what fresh hell patch Tuesday brought.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    ~~Ah that's easy! You just need to install...~~

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It happens soooo often it can be really frustrating. But to be fair I think the folks that hang around that sort of tech site or even here are so far ahead of me with Linux it probably feels like talking to a 5 year old in order to "dumb it down" for me. I'm still determined to learn though, dammit!

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    That may be kinda true, I actually regret not annotating what I learned along the way because I would like to be able to explain to others in the way I would have liked to get that information taught to me when I didn't know things, teaching/informing is difficult to get right because you often don't know the knowledge gap between you and the listener.

    Good on you for sticking with it! When I started I made my fair share of silly mistakes, still do honestly, I think we are all 5 year olds at heart anyway :P

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Fair point. I've been using Obsidian to keep track of what I've learned so far. My memory for this sort of thing is pretty bad. Also to keep track of docker compose yamls I have in use now in case I need to rebuild something. There are similar open source apps out there like Logseq and Joplin, but Obsidian clicked for me the most.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Thanks for the suggestions, already heard about them, maybe I should actually go in and try, however these days I've been using physical notebooks for random journaling, it's kind of stress relieving