Just giggled as my last meme mentioned trouble with displays and appropriately, a large chunk of the replies were "well MY displays work just fine!" (And charmingly, many were thoughts of things to check, other distros etc. It's a very kind community, though that may also be the fediverse.)

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[–] 133 points 9 months ago (10 children)

I've found the Linux community to be quite helpful. But I've not really used Lemmy for tech support. The Arch Wiki is damn near a Linux Wikipedia. And any active board dedicated to a particular Distro are where I've gotten help.

It seems really hard at first but the more problems you solve the more sense everything makes.

Ignore the gatekeepers.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    I once asked on one of the Linux gaming communities on here for tips on how to optimise my Sunshine on my system because it wasn't streaming well at all

    Got a bunch of shit from several people because I didn't formulate my post like a proper support ticket.

    Haven't asked for help on here since.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I wouldn't say "makes sense", but I did get a bit more confident in tackling problems after a few successes using online help.

    I also gave up on things I'd like to have after failures using online help, though.

    Finally, I admit I'm a donkey.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, I'm always envious of people who can make sense of the info they find on the Arch wiki and forums. For me, it's just a patchwork of solutions I found. Every time I add one, I pray to the computer gods that it doesn't worsen my situation.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    arch wiki is good, been using that since i migrated to cachyos in september (had been running win 11 pro for years prior to that). only major issue i had was display related lol, i use a tv that needs a custom EDID to expose 120hz mode and it was an absolute nightmare trying to generate it with linux. ended up using a linux tool to dump my existing EDID then popping it into CRU via wine to generate the new one. Works pretty damn well now, have to say.

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