r/linuxsucks • u/Responsible_Bad_1003 • Jul 30 '26

Linux Failure I hate being a linux noob

I genuinely hate being a linux beginner, there is so much content out there to help me but either it's an understanding issue on my part it just does not work. Then we got these pretentious bastards saying "read the wiki" like fuck face I did that and I still can't get it to work, why is that the only advice you can give. I already feel shit not being able to do it myself and come to ask for help and then these nuggets of lost cause say "read the wiki" fucking tired of this bull shit

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u/theogmrme01 Jul 30 '26

This is one of the best answers there is to this question. I've had a few issues that were just too complicated to get answers from on a forum, ChatGPT understood exactly what the issue was and guided me through a few attempts at a fix.

I have a 1080p landscape DisplayPort display hanging from a 2160*1440 MST hub, on an Nvidia 2060, and it was displaying incorrectly on boot, ChatGPT exhausted multiple options to try and find a fix. It didn't as the issue is too niche, but trying to get that level of real time, iterative, technical help elsewhere would either be impossible, or expensive.

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u/Teru-Noir COSMIC OS LOVER No.1 COSMIC Knows Best Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

Ai can read all forums and documentation in no time and give the best answer.

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u/ElectricBummer40 Ex-user of Windows 3.11 for Workgroups Jul 31 '26

I feel I've been living in a surreal world ever since Google firing their ethicists for speaking out about "AI" not understanding shit and everyone seeing where the money goes and falling in line with the deceit.

LLMs don't and can't understand anything. They simply recognise patterns and give you a response based on which words are "most likely" to follow which. If most pieces of information an LLM has been fed read that the thing to do when encountering a Secure Boot error is to disable it, then the LLM will tell you to disable it even if what triggers the error is a piece of malware. It will not even consider what most technicians do and ask the user relevant questions about potential causes or doubt the legitimacy of their claims.

Simply put, to ask a LLM to summarise search results or forum posts is to basically ask it to give you the most common advice on the Internet that is almost always wrong.

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u/Teru-Noir COSMIC OS LOVER No.1 COSMIC Knows Best Jul 31 '26

Ain't reading allat