It took my old laptop dying on me for me to finally ask my geeky neighbor to install Mint on another laptop I had around.
It’s been a few hours and Omigod. Why did I waste so much time? It works. It’s easy and intuitive. It makes sense. There’s no bullshit.
I still have to make Antidote talk to Libre Office, but whatever. The rest feels good and natural.
So please whoever is here because you’re contemplating switching: do it yesterday.
Lots of people are anti AI here, but Claude will tell you how to fix anything Linux. If you ever get an error, just copy and paste it.
Understanding how things work a little will make using Ai assistance much more reliable. If you have 0 knowledge & you are just pasting terminal commands without comprehending anything even a little bit is not really tenable long term, but I suppose if you plan to reinstall annually, it could be okay, given a mistake doesn’t wipe your drive.
So will nerds with too much time on their hands :3 (me)
same here
i’d love to volunteer for some kind of unix-like helpline! it would be lowkey fun
Don’t just run random commands though. Take a few seconds to understand what it does. If you still don’t understand, ask the AI to explain it.
That way you both learn how to do things yourself, and lower your risk of running harmful commands.
This. Have it explain and cite sources. Tools have uses, but you must know how to use them.