• SomeDude
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    442 years ago

    Switching to Linux is a pain, but its a pain once

    Until there’s some weird problem and the only way to solve it is to copy some dudes code from StackExchange and pray that it isn’t actually a harmful script.

    • @sweetchildintime@lemmy.world
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      512 years ago

      That’s hardly a Linux-specific problem. There are plenty of Windows problems I’ve encountered where running some random dude’s registry update script is the recommended answer. If you are running anything with Admin / Root rights in any OS you had better understand what you’re doing.

      • Fushuan [he/him]
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        82 years ago

        Normal people don’t know what the registry is since they never interacted with it, normal people have issues in Linux that makes them interact with code.

        Normal people have admin rights because it’s their machine, and don’t know what they are doing. Giving normal people the expectations of a fraction what us professionals know to do is very unfair.

    • @TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world
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      132 years ago

      Lol fwiw one thing ChatGPT is shockingly great at is Linux troubleshooting for some reason. Google first but if you’re stuck paste in that error code and see what it advises you to do…its been my savior a few times!

      • @Four_lights77@lemm.ee
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        72 years ago

        This makes sense. By now a full 3-4% of all data on the internet is probably Linux help forums so it’s probably highly represented in its dataset lol