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- Apr 14, 2011
In case some of you may or may not know, Luke and Linus are daily driving linux on their personal desktop computers. And from what I gathered, They are doing this to see what the experience is like for newbies coming to linux and will not be getting any special help from people like wendell (level1techs) or anthony (tech guy at LMG).
Fascinating that this happens around the same time I am actively trying to come to Linux.
Personally for me, I was trying openSUSE Tumbleweed because it was running everything fine right up until I was having issues trying to access my NAS. After what I went through in this support thread, I just "walked" and went over to debian 11 where I know the essentials will work. I aim to have linux as my secondary computer since I know linux has only some RGB support so far and VR at least works in linux.
Now I would also post links to the threads I made on openSUSE forums but as of 8:45pm 11/10/2021, It appears their forums are down atm. Personally, I am not sorry about that. or maybe "its working for them".
-anyway-
This brings me back to the times in the past when I actually DID try to RTM only to feel like some helpless idiot who should just go back to windows because at the time, I felt like I had to be "born with the linux chad genetics" in order to actually use linux. There are also some other things that I recall that I just outright did not like and found tedious.
Two of which I can recall right now.
1. I have a game drive. In windows, I would just smack a drive letter to it and it always mounted every time i fired up the computer. OS drive was on the smaller NVME drive. Simple, straight forward, no need to get technical. in Linux, It appears that I would be mounting this drive to a folder? BTW this is in debian 11 KDE but I also experienced this in openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE as well. So i figured the most sensible thing to do is mount this in the /mnt folder. So something like /mnt/sda1. But debian wont let me and says i need to be "root". The only place I can mount the drive is in "/media/gak". I cannot even make another folder in the media folder. I have to fire up the terminal to accomplish a task that is technical in linux but not in windows.
This is a secondary internal drive that has been screwed into the case with the chances of being upgraded months to years down the road and will be used for something like games, storage, running programs from, etc.
2. Over kill on entering the root password. One example I can think of was when I was trying to get my drive mounted and going, I kept getting asked a password to mount a drive every time I booted to the desktop environment. Maybe it was encrypted? I dont think I recall telling debian to encrypt my game drive. I eventually got it to stop but I am unsure how i did it. Installing something like steam also requires entering the password approximately 4 times. In windows, it would ask maybe once or twice "do you want to run this program" and you would click yes. Done. I recall linus torvalds getting touchy about the root password being asked for way to often in openSUSE. it was fixed for some things he complained about but not all. Something about his daughter not being able to add the schools printer because openSUSE was asking for a password to add the printer.
I find it difficult asking for help. I hate asking having to ask for help. I hate having to try to describe to someone who is a terminal chad how to do something in linux using only the GUI and not the terminal. As I type this out, I figured just dont bother spell checking it and click "submit new thread". Like screaming in the void out of frustration. But I still spell check my post here because I am hoping some linux developer spots this and thinks something like "hmm he has a point. lets fix our distro and cut out it with the RTM approach".
Failing over and over at trying to explain what the problem is or what I am going through reminds me of something a friend of mine once said "sometimes having a vocal conversation over VOIP or in person is better than typing it all out". This reminds me of the bible. Different translations but same message its trying to convey. Maybe there should be a linux bible and linux apologetics.
I did tell this to another (using the british anonymous phrasing here) "good friend of mine" but he said, and I paraphrase, "then how will the people find help if they cant read what we just vocally talked about". Cant argue against that. But maybe we should just make a transcript or record our conversation?
Hopefully I will fix the issue I am having with my drive. Trying to mount it in the right spot so I can run my games from it. Still have windows on my main computer but keeping linux on the secondary computer. figured this would be a good way to transition over to linux. Like how AMD brought about 64 bit. making a bridge between 32bit and 64 bit so people can go back and forth on it. Behold! almost everything is on 64 bit. And hopefully the same goes for me as I try to get into linux.
Fascinating that this happens around the same time I am actively trying to come to Linux.
Personally for me, I was trying openSUSE Tumbleweed because it was running everything fine right up until I was having issues trying to access my NAS. After what I went through in this support thread, I just "walked" and went over to debian 11 where I know the essentials will work. I aim to have linux as my secondary computer since I know linux has only some RGB support so far and VR at least works in linux.
Now I would also post links to the threads I made on openSUSE forums but as of 8:45pm 11/10/2021, It appears their forums are down atm. Personally, I am not sorry about that. or maybe "its working for them".
-anyway-
This brings me back to the times in the past when I actually DID try to RTM only to feel like some helpless idiot who should just go back to windows because at the time, I felt like I had to be "born with the linux chad genetics" in order to actually use linux. There are also some other things that I recall that I just outright did not like and found tedious.
Two of which I can recall right now.
1. I have a game drive. In windows, I would just smack a drive letter to it and it always mounted every time i fired up the computer. OS drive was on the smaller NVME drive. Simple, straight forward, no need to get technical. in Linux, It appears that I would be mounting this drive to a folder? BTW this is in debian 11 KDE but I also experienced this in openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE as well. So i figured the most sensible thing to do is mount this in the /mnt folder. So something like /mnt/sda1. But debian wont let me and says i need to be "root". The only place I can mount the drive is in "/media/gak". I cannot even make another folder in the media folder. I have to fire up the terminal to accomplish a task that is technical in linux but not in windows.
This is a secondary internal drive that has been screwed into the case with the chances of being upgraded months to years down the road and will be used for something like games, storage, running programs from, etc.
2. Over kill on entering the root password. One example I can think of was when I was trying to get my drive mounted and going, I kept getting asked a password to mount a drive every time I booted to the desktop environment. Maybe it was encrypted? I dont think I recall telling debian to encrypt my game drive. I eventually got it to stop but I am unsure how i did it. Installing something like steam also requires entering the password approximately 4 times. In windows, it would ask maybe once or twice "do you want to run this program" and you would click yes. Done. I recall linus torvalds getting touchy about the root password being asked for way to often in openSUSE. it was fixed for some things he complained about but not all. Something about his daughter not being able to add the schools printer because openSUSE was asking for a password to add the printer.
I find it difficult asking for help. I hate asking having to ask for help. I hate having to try to describe to someone who is a terminal chad how to do something in linux using only the GUI and not the terminal. As I type this out, I figured just dont bother spell checking it and click "submit new thread". Like screaming in the void out of frustration. But I still spell check my post here because I am hoping some linux developer spots this and thinks something like "hmm he has a point. lets fix our distro and cut out it with the RTM approach".
Failing over and over at trying to explain what the problem is or what I am going through reminds me of something a friend of mine once said "sometimes having a vocal conversation over VOIP or in person is better than typing it all out". This reminds me of the bible. Different translations but same message its trying to convey. Maybe there should be a linux bible and linux apologetics.
I did tell this to another (using the british anonymous phrasing here) "good friend of mine" but he said, and I paraphrase, "then how will the people find help if they cant read what we just vocally talked about". Cant argue against that. But maybe we should just make a transcript or record our conversation?
Hopefully I will fix the issue I am having with my drive. Trying to mount it in the right spot so I can run my games from it. Still have windows on my main computer but keeping linux on the secondary computer. figured this would be a good way to transition over to linux. Like how AMD brought about 64 bit. making a bridge between 32bit and 64 bit so people can go back and forth on it. Behold! almost everything is on 64 bit. And hopefully the same goes for me as I try to get into linux.