Never got that one before, I always get multiple solutions and workarounds until a problem is solved.

It's more complicated to describe how to do something in a gui and it will only work for one environment if it's set up the same way.

After all, what use are detailed instructions and explanations?

Just tell them it's a very basic AI chat and so you need to be precise in instruction

And that's OK. It does get them to open the term and see it and use it a little - copy/pasta is how we all started out. (Truth is, I still copy/pasta after more than 20 years should perhaps need) But that does not negate the GUI experience. I like and use the GUI every time I can.

But I understand the need for the Cli too. I can often use it to better see where a problem is. Something my GUI lovin' lazy butt doesn't always do.

Sorry to break it to you, but Gentoo is a penguin.

Ehh, having used all 3 Arch and Nix are about the same level of difficulty, Nix just doesn't have documentation (or at least didn't when I was using it). Flakes make it more complicated, but those are 100% optional, and I didn't use them

Gentoo is a notable step up. Shit actually breaks there, horrendously. Still love it tho.

HMLinux does, in fact, scare me. I'm debating doing LFS, but I don't think I could handle the difficulty that HML would offer

Here, have your downvoted. We both know you wanted it.

ExOS is the most dangerous game.

Buffalo = GNU

You don't hunt buff, buff hunts YOU! (Gentoo almost made me cry back in the day).

Gatekeeping is a big problem with anything - especially as it becomes easier.

Film photographers balked at people going digital and about color grading and retouching with lightroom and photoshop.

Car people talked shit about how using an automatic transmission wasn't really driving.

PC gamers got pissy at console gamers in the 90s and 2000s for just wanting a game to fucking work without having to chase down a conflict caused by a random printer driver that made their game crash in any map with water (my actual lived experience with Battefield 1942).

Lots of old-school 3D printing enthusiasts get upset when new users don't know when to adjust their pressure advance or can't read gcode.

Doctors who worked three 30-hour shifts a week in their residency think new doctors should go through the same rite of passage.

Football players who were taught to lead into a tackle using the top of their skull think new rules implemented to prevent neck injuries and TBIs make new players pansies.

We need to understand that part of making the world better is that the next generation of professionals, hobbyists, and people in general will have it easier than us, and that's a good thing.

true linux experience

gatekeeping nonsense

When I recommend Linux I always recommend Mint because it can be installed and set up by anyone who can read and follow half a dozen instructions. I don't often recommend Linux though, because the average user won't even read an error message before giving up.

"I heard distro xyz is really beginner friendly, i didn't use it though so i can't give you much advice on that." is pretty simple.

Maybe adding "...i'm using distro C btw" at the end if you truly want to feels important.

Nah, poser was my teenage self installing it on my first gen iPod nano despite not knowing so much as what cat or mv does.

MacOS has the advantage (that the other OSes don't) of being developed in house by the same company that designs the hardware.

And here I am rebooting windows every few days because it gets unstable. Meanwhile the Linux VM I have running on that very same windows keeps on chugging like clockwork.

You can search the ancient scrolls for an eternity or consult the all knowing shoggoth that may melt your brain or lie.

I miss the freebsd handbook

I've been using a local Qwen3.8 model as a NixOS sysadmin lately for a non-critical VPS. So far, it has been working surprisingly well! I guess it's easier for AI agents to gather context when the whole system and apps are defined in code, and immutable when applied.

that is why openbsd is valid for treating people this way, because they work so hard to keep their manuals high quality

A little while ago I observed a discussion between some GhostBSD user and some FreeBSD user and I genuinely couldn't tell if they were being assholes to each other or if that's just normal way to handle communication for them