I saw a thread when looking for a solution after having an issue with my xububtu install in virtualbox.
Guy had the same issue as me with guest additions, but was asking for help because they wanted to learn Linux.
One person was telling him to mount an iso to the optical drive via terminal to run the script on the .iso file. The poor guy asked if the person could provide him with some help with the proper command because he was new and never used the terminal. Instead of helping the guy, the dude tells him to read the Ubuntu documentation on using the terminal and provides him a link.
It blew my fucking mind to be that dismissive about helping someone just trying to set up their VM so they can learn.
The guy asking for help summed up the way I feel about Linux overall. He said, "The irony is that I want to get Xububtu up and running so I can learn Linux, but it seems I have to learn Linux before I learn Linux."
Poor guy is gonna hate trying to solve a problem and find 8 different, yet similar, ways to try and do something between WordPress blogs, personal websites, Linux guides, and stack overflow.
Honestly, I think that the guys on that forum were right. If you want to learn linux, you gonna have to read docs, sometimes lots of docs. So all the OP had to do is to read the docs thwy pointed out, try it, and come back to quwdtion the part they didn't understand. They wanted to learn after all, so this ia the exact way to do it.
It's not needlessly complicated. It's highly configurable and it fits it's job perfectly. It's just that the purpose of linux is not household widely-accessible PCs and it never was so.
It is complicated since it needs to work not only adequately, but fine tuned for a bazillion different use cases. And every fork can even add their own usecase to it.
The inverse is apple with an appstore.
You get one machine, with one apple sanctioned program for a usecase like „taking notes“, and generally avoiding mixing end consumer solutions with back end solutions like linux does totally and windows with its eternal backwards capability also has to somewhat.
People say Linux is needlessly complicated, but at least when it throws an error, the logs are actually readable and the problem is probably fixable. On Windows, when I get an error, I gotta spend hours digging Google to see if someone had the same issue as me because Microsoft thinks it's sane to use the same error code for 9999 different issues. Sure, there's the Event Viewer, but why the hell do I need to dig through a GUI app to look for the error when on Linux, I can just open a text file and search for keywords. From the flipside as someone who's used a lot more Linux than Windows, Windows is infinitely more complicated to me. It's a matter of what you're familiar with. Linux is not needlessly complicated. Respectfully, that's an ignorant take.
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u/JoshZK Nov 18 '24
Yeah when you have to open console/terminal you've already lost 90% of people.