Phanlix

When I google "how to mount a network drive in windows" I get https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/map-a-network-drive-in-windows-29ce55d1-34e3-a7e2-4801-131475f9557d as the first result. Which is a complete step by step tutorial on how to do it. It uses a nice little GUI set of windows, wherein you input your server and username and bam, everything just works.

When I google "how to mount a network drive in Fedora 39" I get absolutely NOTHING related to how to do this in Linux. Which is a basic bitch level of functionality btw, mounting a remote drive is basically required in an office environment.

When I finally found instructions they were.

1. Create a local folder

sudo mkdir /media/SYNC_ME

2. Open fstab, which appears to be an equivalent of a MS registry key where drive configuration is stored.

3. add the following line to FSTAB to link your remote server to the local folder you created which 'mounts' it in the OS.

//NASIPADDRESS/SYNC_ME /media/SYNC_ME cifs username=USERNAME_HERE,password=PASSWORD_HERE,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

4. When this inevitably doesn't work, basically sit and stare at the screen. Because I've deep dived at least a dozen fucking forums at this point and no one seems to have an answer as to why it doesn't work. I'm sure some guru could make it work, but making it user friendly at all to do this basic bitch level of functionality is frankly insane.

Sounds like you’ve been very unlucky.

No, this is my Linux experience since I first installed ubuntu in 2005. I've tried at least 5 times to pick up this hot garbage and it ends the same way every time. With admission of defeat and an eventual return to an OS that works, which would be windows or mac.

Garuda Linux

I may eventually check that out. I was hoping to use a basic version of Linux then configure it for gaming myself to learn a bit, but am quickly realizing that Linux is still as absolutely unfriendly and unusable as it was 20 years ago.

What fucking manual?

I'm googling and reading a dozen god-damned articles. Maybe stop releasing a whole new version every 6 months and sit down to document shit.

Or how about this... Make it easier to do basic shit. Command line is for psychopaths. It's fucking 2023 and you haven't figured out how to make this steaming pile of shit user friendly? That's a failure of the entire Linux community at this point.

Thanks for an actual response.

Nope I downloaded VLC through the software manager.

I actually first started using Linux back in 2005 on Ubuntu. I force myself to try Linux about every 5 years praying to god that the community has pulled its collective head out of it's ass and done anything at all to make it easier to use. Almost 20 years and that hope is obviously a god-damned pipe dream.

I'm going to do this for one week, doing daily updates and trying my god-damned best to get this shit software to do what the community says it can do. I managed the get Nvidia working on 39, which looks like an accomplishment given the other post linked about Nvidia and issues with 39.

Btw mounting a NAS is basic, basic office environment functionality. I don't know how Linux ever expects to take over in the office if mounting a NAS drive is this stupid and difficult.

I couldn't even get the live version of Nobara to work. The live USB just said "kernel error".

There's only so much ass I can handle. Linux seems to almost delight in being utterly inaccessible.

It's different from windows is no excuse for the absolute lack of ease and support doing anything. I'll believe Linux is better for gaming when I see it which will probably be never if the elitist community can't get off it's high horse and make an actual easy to use and friendly experience that Linux has been missing since day 1.

....the fuck is a tankie? I'm almost afraid to google it.

so I decided to try linux. After reading a bit I decided that Fedora sounded like the distro for me with the top 'spin'.

Black screen. Not Nvidea compatible out of the box. Booted into 'basic graphics'. Looks like total ass on 800x600. Tried to follow a tutorial to get it running, but it didn't want to make changes to the USB version and wanted me to full boot. I didn't want to full wipe my windows just yet, but we're getting there. Found a tutorial about using some semi-auto process to do it, so wish me luck.

I bet this goes like last time though, given that I already can't even run Linux out of the goddamn box on what is one of the most popular graphics card series ever. I bet I get frustrated trying to make half my shit work like an xbox controller because nothing, and I repeat nothing on this trash OS works without some level of headache.

For giggles I tried nobara linux which bills itself as a fully configured gaming version of fedora. Unsurprisingly it had a kernel error when booting from USB off the rip lol.

"Few and far issues between" = completely doesn't work at all on the what is arguably the top linux distro today, sounds about right.