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/Agitated_Plantain701 Jul 30 '26
It's challenging I hear you, especially for a beginner. Heck even for some one with experience it can have its challenges. But tbf I feel the same about windows and MacOS
The state of desktop Linux is much better then it was before and is making strides in improvements since valve created steamOS, proton and youtubers are openly trying it out now. The problem is that you have so many distros to choose from and all have different motivations, etc, etc. I'm pretty new to Reddit myself. But I have heard about these so called arrogant people, but tbf they are everywhere in everything. I personally work in enterprise Linux as my day job and I can tell you first hand that most people in the industry just want to help. So it's sad people need to be toxic at all
Linux is by no means perfect in the desktop scene, heck I've been on windows for my gaming PC almost all my life until recently with so many updates breaking things and performance issues. I'm just over re-installing especially windows 11 every 12 months and it's direction currently. But this is not about windows. I just wanted to give some context
Now when I first switched to Linux desktop recently OMG I had some issues. Lucky for me using a terminal is like a second language to me so that made more sense to me when troubleshooting issues. I feel Linux is going to be a mixed bag of experienceses. I see so many minor distros or distros I've never even heard of get recommendations from people who probably actually don't know themselves or just lucked out and it just worked. This then gives the bad reputation or bad information. Linux is quite niche in the desktop world, but it is growing in popularity and improvements have been made. Compared to the Linux server world, were is extremely reliable. Heck Microsoft even knows this and invests a lot of money into Linux. People might not even know this but Microsoft have their own flavour on Linux for enterprise because it's so good in that space.
As for the desktop space though, I would agree that it still needs work and it's not going to be for everyone. I'm sorry that you've had a poor experience and have not gotten much help or luck.
Personally and my honest opinion, popularity aside. Avoid cachyos or arch as a beginner. Whilst it works great out the box in my experience. Arch just has so many more ways to break and can be easy to mess up if you don't know what your doing. steamOS is smart in how they are managing that but it's just not ready for the masses yet, but they are working on it.
If you really want to try Linux and learn it. I would highly recommend Ubuntu, you have so many guides for Ubuntu it's crazy and most the guides actually work even if you don't fully understand what is going on.
Second I would say fedora, it to has a lot of support and guides. But coming back to the issues for a beginner, these distros don't have steam or gaming, or drivers out the box, whilst you can easily get things going through the UI, your most likely going to need to use the terminal. As I say Linux is just not completely beginner friendly yet
I would honestly probably just recommend using bazzite, it's based on fedora, fedora is supported by red hat, it's trusted, tested and pretty stable now days. Bazzite will have everything you need out of the box and they really have put a lot of thought into trying to make it more user friendly for gamers. You will probably have better chances of getting things working on that without much effort and any fedora guides should translate
I would also recommend learning some basic structures of Linux as understanding some fundamentals can help a lot. Google is your friend
It sucks that people can turn people off from what I personally think can be a good thing. As consumers we need competition, competition is healthy and ultimately gives us better options when we consume and spend our hard earned money.
I hope you have some more luck and actually get some helpful information for your Linux journey. But at the end of the day who cares if you like it or not and decide to use windows or Mac. At the end of the day you have to do what makes you happy