linuxmemes

As a developer and sysadmin, I welcome you.

Welcome.

Honestly I'm gonna go against what people usually say and say that Arch is better to start with than Ubuntu, as long as you're not afraid of command line or editing txt files. Whether it's Arch or Ubuntu, as a noob you're going to be doing a lot of wiki reading and copying and pasting of commands.

Personally though, a big difference between the two I found is that after a couple of years of copying and pasting commands in Ubuntu, I still didn't really understand anything about how Linux works behind the scenes. Whereas Arch had me feeling like I too could be a sysadmin, if I felt like it, within a week.

And maybe things are different these days with Ubuntu, it's been a few years, but I find that Arch has a way more enthusiastic and helpful user base. And the Arch wiki is practically a bible. Whereas searching for problems and solutions in Ubuntu can feel a bit like searching for problems and solutions in Windows, where you'll probably get copy pasted generic solutions or someone telling you to restart your PC.

Everyone's welcome to the party pal

After over a decade of using it exclusively at home and partially at work I still googled how to add users to a group last week.

The first step to being really good at something is being willing to be really bad at something while you practice.

Absolutly me

But i think the starting OS depends on the person.

I never would give Arch to my grandmother or something but most of my siblings would be better off with arch than mint. But even then there could be poeple that would be happier with another distro that is not a rolling release

I'm old (not much, though) but back in my day it happened the same thing with people like me. Only that instead Arch+Hyprland it was Compiz Fusion+Beryl because the cube and the flames was the tits.

Also I just happen to be a graphic designer so hopefully this post of yours helps into letting die that idea that Linux is only for devs and sysadmins.

It's actually how IT career ladder looks from right to left

I switched from Windows to Mint this week and I'm also that derpy dragon

Thata how i learnt. Arch + i3. Broke it a couple times, but learnt alot

Everyone is a bit lost at first... That's the first step to becoming an expert.

Great that you're trying to learn something new!

I tried like three times to daily drive linux before it finally stuck.

I started with Manjaro. Unfucking that system has taught me more than any "stable" distro could. It's all a matter of determination.

Welcome to the party.

We are not all devs/sysadmins. For a long time thought I didn't really know what I was doing, until one day someone had an issue running an old game and I looked at the error and could tell them how to fix it by editing the launch script.

So... actually (put on fedora hat) it's a GREAT way to learn!

What I do NOT recommend though is distro hopping with your data and your daily life setup. Namely the safest to learn is main system is stable, easy to setup and fix, you're comfortable with even if you are not "proud" to claim it on Lemmy BUT the weird stuff you do on the side, it's on a dedicate harddrive (ideally not even partition, just so that you can even mess that up) and you go LinuxFromScratch of whatever rock your boat knowing your data is safe and if you fuck up you can still go on with your day.

I just use Linux mint because it looks nice and is user friendly and I'm mostly Linux illiterate. But I'm learning between that and SteamOS on my steam deck.

No shame in it.

Hyprland was the first time I had to look up what a window manager was XD

I have a coworker who went from windows only to "i want to try self host a bunch of stuff"

Ran into lots of learning curves and problems

Conclusion? "Linux sucks! Too difficult!"