It seems like the more interested I get in Linux, the less appealing it becomes. The community seems to have no fucking clue what they're talking about, because everyone is just constantly talking over each other and contradicting themselves! I have spent so much time reading about Linux and distros and such to prepare for my eventual switch, but after all that I'm starting to question if I even want to make the switch. Here's a few of the things I have read over and over, that confuse me to no end:
- It doesn't matter what distro you use, but also you absolutely should not use that one!! Use that one it's much better trust me!
- Gaming is good on Linux now, but also it's super shit and you should keep windows if you want to game
- Sure you can use Nvidia cards, but also no you can't because nothing will work with them
- Just dual boot if you're not sure, but also no don't dual boot because windows will erase your shit if you do
- Trust me bro Linux is super easy to learn, also here's 14 different specific terms you'll have to Google, but even then you'll barely understand them
- Everything will work out of the box, but also you can't use that thing with that other thing without configuring that other thing first but that'll break that thing which needed that thing [...]
I'm slightly exaggerating and I may get downvoted but I needed to vent. It honestly sometimes seems like Linux diehards are intentionally hiding some of its major pitfalls in order to "convert" more people to their side.
I know windows sucks and that's why I want to switch, but at least when you have a windows question there's a concrete answer, not a bunch of nerds yelling out incoherent technobabble-sounding answers that all contradict each other.
And for fucks sake please type the whole words when speaking to beginners. How am I supposed to know what a DE, a VM, a CLI, a WM, PM, or all that other stuff is?
Linux is the "least welcoming, yet most aggressively butthurt that no one is joining it" community I've seen in a while.
Alright rant over, you may yell at me now.
I'm not a Linux distro nerd who rices and configs his distro all day (look those two terms up if you don't know).
I'm a system admin working with Linux servers, I use Linux and BSD (sometime) and I like FOSS. This is going to be from my perspective.
You seem to be confused by some material posted around forums on Linux, and find it to be complicated because of information overload. I can see that happening, and whilst I don't think Linux is necessarily hard (there are many hard things on Windows too, FYI - really understanding MS AD is some work), it definitely works differently.
You're going to have to give me examples of things you don't understand if you'd like help. In essence, the reason Linux takes effort because you inadvertently start working closer with Operating System than on Windows and MacOS who dumb it down. Not saying that it's a bad approach, and you could probably live without a terminal on the beginner-friendly distros too. Actually run a live-install, see how you like it, and make a habit of reading documentation. The skills I've picked up with my interest in Linux got me jobs, which makes a forever advocate of the process.
Good luck!
Okay, Linux Ricer is my new favorite slightly insulting stereotype. I am curious what Linux Rice looks like, though.