The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[HahaYes]

Installing arch with the wiki is practically just a pop quiz that checks if you're >100iq and capable of seeing a shell without shitting yourself. You don't even have to understand what you're typing it's literally step by step.

Reading instructions is far, far beyond the capability of 95% of computer users. You ask the average user to go to file explorer, restart their desktop/laptop or check if a monitor is plugged in and they act as if you grew a second head. They also freak the fuck out if you open a terminal window in front of them.

 

[Waff]

Reading instructions is far, far beyond the capability of 95% of computer users. You ask the average user to go to file explorer, restart their desktop/laptop or check if a monitor is plugged in and they act as if you grew a second head. They also freak the fuck out if you open a terminal window in front of them.

Its odd to think the same people who dont understand this shit also can program c++ most of the time. Using a computer really should be taught first before diving right into programming. I learned all this shit in 4th grade there is really no excuse.

 

[seri0us]

Installing arch with the wiki is practically just a pop quiz that checks if you're >100iq and capable of seeing a shell without shitting yourself. You don't even have to understand what you're typing it's literally step by step.

Maintenance of such distros is where things get good. But that's not exactly reproducible or linear and thus not "interesting enough" for YT.

 

[AnOminous]

They also freak the fuck out if you open a terminal window in front of them.

I like how they literally act like it's voodoo or some shit. It's all you have to do to convince many people you're some kind of master hacker, even if it's just basic bitch shit like killing a locked up process. Do something like run htop and they act like you're a god.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

They also freak the fuck out if you open a terminal window in front of them.

Those are always fun

"WTF YOU BROKE MY COMPUTER YOU ASSHOLE!!!"

 

[HahaYes]

Using a computer really should be taught first before diving right into programming.

Work a good 2 hours on a service desk and you'll quickly see how little people know about using a computer. Some of the highlights I remember from my time on helldesk include users:

• Changing a zoom background, then calling to have it changed back for them because they forgot how they did it.
• Not scrolling down to change their password after using ctrl + alt + delete and getting pissed they couldn't find the text box, stating their computer was broken. I remoted in, scrolled down to show the text box and they just hung up.
• Storing sensitive passwords in plain text spreadsheets on their desktop.
• Not plugging in their monitor and refusing to believe it wasn't broken until someone on site plugged it in right in front of them.

Do something like run htop and they act like you're a god.

Run any network monitoring command or a system wide update like -Syu and they shit themselves thinking they're having all their files stolen.

 

[WhiteNight]

"WTF YOU BROKE MY COMPUTER YOU ASSHOLE!!!"

Time to dust off this classic greentext:

 

[Gatdam Animal Person]

Work a good 2 hours on a service desk and you'll quickly see how little people know about using a computer.

To be fair, as an IT guy working with hospitals, they know computers as much as we do with surgery.

 

[Jeff Q. Anime]

To be fair, as an IT guy working with hospitals, they know computers as much as we do with surgery.

No, I'm certain I have a better grasp on general surgical practice than an average surgeon does on general computer use. You give me a scalpal and a paralyzed body and I'll have that appendix out lickety split. It might not be done the "right" way, they might not "live", but by golly I'm willing to give it a try.

 

[Gatdam Animal Person]

No, I'm certain I have a better grasp on general surgical practice than an average surgeon does on general computer use. You give me a scalpal and a paralyzed body and I'll have that appendix out lickety split. It might not be done the "right" way, they might not "live", but by golly I'm willing to give it a try.

You could always read a children book on Surgery Procedures, and you'll have a non-100% chance of fucking it up.

Edit: Just realized someone's post just disappeared. Hope you can get your Linux Mint working!

 

[Betonhaus]

No, I'm certain I have a better grasp on general surgical practice than an average surgeon does on general computer use. You give me a scalpal and a paralyzed body and I'll have that appendix out lickety split. It might not be done the "right" way, they might not "live", but by golly I'm willing to give it a try.

I think a surgeon once said that he could teach anyone how to do a heart bypass in a day, but it would take years to teach them what to do if things don't go as expected.

I do feel like I have far better knowledge of surgery then some of these people do of computers, though I don't know enough of surgery to actually successfully perform one.

 

[AnOminous]

I do feel like I have far better knowledge of surgery then some of these people do of computers, though I don't know enough of surgery to actually successfully perform one.

The worst people to deal with for computers are professionals, especially those in fields where you actually need at least minimal brains, because they assume they know everything about everything. I think it's a tie for whether doctors or lawyers are worse. If you ever worked on computers as a hardware monkey for one of the two, you know what I mean.

They'll tell you what to do when they don't even know what's wrong. And it's like if you know so goddamn much, why am I the one being paid to fix the thing YOU fucked up?

 

[GoysGoneWild]

I'll admit to having less and less patience with boomers and others who don't have basic computer literacy in current year + 8. At absolute barebones minimum, you've had 15 years to learn computer basics like open window, close window, save as, explore a filesystem, create or rename a folder, single click/double click, etc. This has been a core competency for 15 years, probably more like 20 to 30 depending on what industry you've been in. And yet even to this day, you obstinately, defiantly refuse to try to figure shit out or make an honest to god attempt to learn it. THEN you have the fucking balls to get pissy or copping an attitude at me when I come in when something gets fucked up and I have to tell you to actually describe the problem and let me make a diagnosis because its clear you don't know what the fuck is going on.

For some reason the older generations got it in their head that "computers r hard" and have used that as an excuse to avoid learning bare-bones competencies for multiple decades now. Learning new things is itself a core competency of life.

Ending post to go clean my car because I sufficiently pissed myself off.

 

[Battlefield42]

Its not unusual that Muta disappoints me, however this really does. I wanted to see him torcher himself installing Gentoo, but nah curry man only uses loonix for gayming.

I expected him to do linux from scratch but nah it's another arch video instead

 

[Waff]

I expected him to do linux from scratch but nah it's another arch video instead

Theres no way in hell any one is gonna do a lfs video...i remember one guy did that and it was like 6 9 hour segments

 

[Another Char Clone]

Linux from scratch is a good learning experience to get deep into the guts to find out how everything connects. There will be a lot of copying and pasting of commands. Just do everything in a VM if you are worried about fucking up a real system.

 

[Battlefield42]

Theres no way in hell any one is gonna do a lfs video...i remember one guy did that and it was like 6 9 hour segments

Even gentoo would have been better. He has made so many arch videos that it's getting boring now

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Using a computer really should be taught first before diving right into programming. I learned all this shit in 4th grade there is really no excuse.

Computer Classes really were a necessary thing and having dropped it because "kids already know" as been a disaster.

 

[Waff]

Even gentoo would have been better. He has made so many arch videos that it's getting boring now

My issue with him is not how many arch vids he does but what he thinks linux should be. From what he's said in the past it boils down to linux should be like macos in terms of usage and focused on gaymers. His opinion is the room temp take that makes gay shit like flatpaks exist and more projects close their sources.

 

[Marvin]

I'll admit to having less and less patience with boomers and others who don't have basic computer literacy in current year + 8. At absolute barebones minimum, you've had 15 years to learn computer basics like open window, close window, save as, explore a filesystem, create or rename a folder, single click/double click, etc. This has been a core competency for 15 years, probably more like 20 to 30 depending on what industry you've been in. And yet even to this day, you obstinately, defiantly refuse to try to figure shit out or make an honest to god attempt to learn it. THEN you have the fucking balls to get pissy or copping an attitude at me when I come in when something gets fucked up and I have to tell you to actually describe the problem and let me make a diagnosis because its clear you don't know what the fuck is going on.

For some reason the older generations got it in their head that "computers r hard" and have used that as an excuse to avoid learning bare-bones competencies for multiple decades now. Learning new things is itself a core competency of life.

Ending post to go clean my car because I sufficiently pissed myself off.

Lol I'm terrible with modern windows or mac, but for a different reason. I just don't use them. Every new laptop I get I immediately wipe and install arch. I never use other people's computers. I think I've used a windows computer in a library a handful of times in the past decade.

I think every time I've used windows in the past decade, the UI has been radically rearranged and I have trouble finding menus.

I'm a programmer by trade, so basically all the desktop software I use is emacs, terminals, and web browsers.

I'm not a boomer, I'm like 34. I just live a (frankly comfy) life where I use basically no technology except on my extremely spartan terms. (well I do have an android phone)