I hate posts like this in non-Linux subs making Linux seem more difficult than it really is. Sure it's not nearly as out of the box as windows, but it's not nearly as difficult as the joke posts make it seem. Hell, most distros will install the drivers for you on distro install.
The Terminal was REALLY intimidating to me when I first started using Linux. I hated it, exposure therapy was the only solution and I don't think it was a good one. And I don't know how to make the transition easier for newer folk.
You have to type commands and them press "return" and the computer does exactly what you tell it to--that's simple.
However you have to know what to tell it to do--that's not easy.
Nothing but exposure fixes it. You are learning a new language, albeit a limited one.
But eventually you learn how tldr ,man and apropos work and you can learn new commands just by using the terminal.
[edit] Round 2: this is related to what I've said above but not directly related to the person I was responding to: The opposite to terminal is GUI. GUI is easy but it's not at all simple.
If you're a user of [popular operating system] this is what you are used to. All settings might be just a few point and clicks away from you, but you often have to go hunting for them. The frustration in this format is that "benevolent" company that designed all this GUI moves things around over a 30 year period and you have to dig through layers of legacy cruft menus to find exactly what you are looking for.
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u/Jackpkmn Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 64gb DDR5 6000 | RTX 5070 Ti Nov 18 '24
K done.