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I refer to this technique as the Distro Distract. I first ran into it during my first experience with Linux in the mid-nineties. I install a distro, I experie
by at_a_remove 5y ago
I refer to this technique as the Distro Distract. I first ran into it during my first experience with Linux in the mid-nineties.
I install a distro, I experience problems, there's not a lot of info out there. I hit #linux or some forum and I am told that what I really have is an XY problem, and the real problem is that I am running the wrong distro.
So I install Distro #2. And my problems have vanished! But ... but there are new problems that were not there in the first distro. So I hit the forums again and get someone nearly identical telling me that what my actual problem is is that I just have no idea how to pick a decent distro, and what I should really be using is ...
People do not want to cycle through one distro after another. That is not accessible. It takes time to pick out the next one and install (less now), and then you go through your stuff until you hit yet another brick wall.
- walteweiss 5y agoYou describe Windows approach, when a reboot solves a weird problem. In the Linux world you don't solve your problems by just mindlessly doing the same things again and again until it works. The best approach is to explore and learn, the longer you do that the simpler it becomes. That’s how Linux is best to be treated.
- phendrenad2 5y agoWhat if my life is finite? What if I want to accomplish something with my time, rather than "learn linux noob"? Rebooting Windows is 10 seconds of my time. Learning Linux took me hundreds of hours. Hours I want back, frankly.
- walteweiss 5y agoThe thing is you are going to spend less and less time on that after you get through the basics. It is not as huge as you think, especially if you work with computers.