I'm sorry your experience has been lackluster. Personally, I find that the documentation/wiki for systems like Arch are quite packed with useful information. Going from my hands being held and things mostly done for me in Ubuntu with a mostly-vanilla setup, to Arch with a tiling window manager, and setting up networking/audio/etc manually was not that difficult at all, thanks to the Arch Wiki. They do a great job.
And, so many problems have been encountered by others, that usually if you experience a problem, and look it up on the web, you'll get an answer at least 70% relevant to solving your own.
Maybe it comes from a stubbornness, or a heightened curiosity and intrigue, but it only took me ~6 years to go from Windows power user, to almost never booting Windows up, and feeling like I know Linux pretty deeply. I never felt like this with Windows. Things just... make sense.
This whole comment came off as me stroking my own ego, but I really just don't understand what people find so difficult about the process of transitioning from Windows/MacOS power user to Linux. I just never really met any significant resistance throughout it all. If someone really wants to take more control of their system, they'll get there no matter what.
but it only took me ~6 years to go from Windows power user, to almost never booting Windows up
but I really just don't understand what people find so difficult…
Are you serious? I practically grew up with Linux, and switched to using windows partially in my mid teens, and never had to boot up linux for any reason while using windows, I switched to Mac in my late teens and never had to boot up windows or Linux for any reason. I would say it took me less than 6 days to become proficient on a Mac, mostly due to getting used to slight differences to Linux on the command line and figuring out where the damn keys where hiding on the keyboard. Eg | under the I, what the hell!?
You can’t honestly be serious that you spent 6 years being comfortable in Linux and also claim that you don’t understand what others find “so difficult” the answer is everything! If you had a toaster that asked you to search Google to figure out how to rewire your kitchen to suit its expectations before making toast you’d also toss it and buy a win-toaster that worked 98% of the time but gave you frozen toast the last 2% or switch to a Mac-toaster that “just works” but due to design concerns only had one button, and charged it’s battery from the bottom meaning you can’t roast while it’s charging. Both of those are minor things compared to having by to rewire a kitchen just for a toaster.
I guess I should have clarified that. I can see the confusion. At no point were things too difficult to proceed as fast as I wanted to. I simply moved that slow because I wasn't motivated, at the time, to go any quicker. Perhaps the length of time was an unnecessary detail.
What I was trying to say is that at no point during my whole transition period, did I ever feel like I had no clue how to do the analogue of some action from Windows in Linux.
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I'm sorry your experience has been lackluster. Personally, I find that the documentation/wiki for systems like Arch are quite packed with useful information. Going from my hands being held and things mostly done for me in Ubuntu with a mostly-vanilla setup, to Arch with a tiling window manager, and setting up networking/audio/etc manually was not that difficult at all, thanks to the Arch Wiki. They do a great job.
And, so many problems have been encountered by others, that usually if you experience a problem, and look it up on the web, you'll get an answer at least 70% relevant to solving your own.
Maybe it comes from a stubbornness, or a heightened curiosity and intrigue, but it only took me ~6 years to go from Windows power user, to almost never booting Windows up, and feeling like I know Linux pretty deeply. I never felt like this with Windows. Things just... make sense.
This whole comment came off as me stroking my own ego, but I really just don't understand what people find so difficult about the process of transitioning from Windows/MacOS power user to Linux. I just never really met any significant resistance throughout it all. If someone really wants to take more control of their system, they'll get there no matter what.
Are you serious? I practically grew up with Linux, and switched to using windows partially in my mid teens, and never had to boot up linux for any reason while using windows, I switched to Mac in my late teens and never had to boot up windows or Linux for any reason. I would say it took me less than 6 days to become proficient on a Mac, mostly due to getting used to slight differences to Linux on the command line and figuring out where the damn keys where hiding on the keyboard. Eg | under the I, what the hell!?
You can’t honestly be serious that you spent 6 years being comfortable in Linux and also claim that you don’t understand what others find “so difficult” the answer is everything! If you had a toaster that asked you to search Google to figure out how to rewire your kitchen to suit its expectations before making toast you’d also toss it and buy a win-toaster that worked 98% of the time but gave you frozen toast the last 2% or switch to a Mac-toaster that “just works” but due to design concerns only had one button, and charged it’s battery from the bottom meaning you can’t roast while it’s charging. Both of those are minor things compared to having by to rewire a kitchen just for a toaster.
I guess I should have clarified that. I can see the confusion. At no point were things too difficult to proceed as fast as I wanted to. I simply moved that slow because I wasn't motivated, at the time, to go any quicker. Perhaps the length of time was an unnecessary detail.
What I was trying to say is that at no point during my whole transition period, did I ever feel like I had no clue how to do the analogue of some action from Windows in Linux.