This is so exciting!!!!!! Congrats!

You'll have to forgive if I don't believe you when you imply you exude positivity. I've yet to see that in this thread. I've just seen you strawmanning legitimate issues people will have related to onboarding.

I think we're done here. Cheers 👍

Dude, you know nothing about me lol

I've literally got a USB stick I loaded up with Linux Mint last night sitting on my desk to install this weekend.

People here aren't tearing Linux down. They want it to be a better onboarding experience.

You're fighting the wrong fight.

The sheer amount of condescension in your three replies is, unfortunately, also typical to encounter for people migrating over.

It's not helpful. It's not endearing. It's not encouraging.

You are exactly the kind of stereotype that turns people away from wanting to learn. It's almost comical lol

I love learning. I like a challenge.

But if I ask for some tech gadget for my birthday, I don't WANT to dread figuring out how to troubleshoot it right off the bat.

I just want it to work. I'm not solving a Rubik's cube. I'm trying to get something done and the easier it can be done, the better.

I just spent a week troubleshooting hardware issues that ended up being a defective memory module. Super simple to replace but a pain in the ass to diagnose.

There's no way anyone other than my IT friends would have spent the time that I did.

Non-techies don't WANT the troubleshooting training.

I DO just want it to work. I don't work in IT but I'm more comfortable than 99% of people troubleshooting PC issues of all kinds.

And even /I/ don't want to spend a weekend picking a distro, finding my apps/equivalents, making sure all my peripherals work, troubleshooting the ones that don't, ect..

But why does the choice seem to be:

1) Learn how to deal with the minutia of a specific distro and get comfortable troubleshooting

VS

2) AI everything

There's so much space in between.

I don't want to spend a Saturday troubleshooting why my Stream Deck doesn't like this specific distro version.

One foot in front of the other one. Even when every day is a struggle to get up and take one more step. It's hard. It's SO hard.

But you've got people who think about you and people who want to help you succeed, even if the people who are supposed to have your best interests at heart just...don't.

SHORT STREAM! Just stress testing some stuff!

Thank you, Azzy!~