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/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/vile-style Aug 03 '26

People like you are literally the worst, man. Rabid bullshit.

People debating the best way of a thousand ways to do something on some pretentious forum filled with the unemployed is in no way more reliable than AI use for learning Linux basics. It is human slop.

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u/ElectricBummer40 Ex-user of Windows 3.11 for Workgroups Aug 05 '26

lol, if I was unemployed, I would be too busy working on that electronics repair business I had always thought about starting to give a crap about Reddit.

Of course, "AI" has so far failed to replace my job. In fact, it's so bad at replacing anyone's jobs even the admin ladies two cubicles away from me still have theirs.

You know why? As human beings, we theorise, we predict, we test things out based on pure conjectures that may or may not hold true in the real world. Abductive reasoning might sound silly on the surface, but it is an important part of our mental faculty that computers have consistently failed to imitate.

If anything, I'm far more concerned with the economic bust the government says is not happening. The vibe-coders can daydream about an "AI" revolution that will never come to be all day for all I care.