how feasible is using Linux as someone with little to no programming experience?
| Linux has UX experience of Windows XP. Thing is it has been going downhill since then.
Programming is not necessary for linux. It is necessary to understand in general strokes the architecture of system to detect problems and being able to google to fix them.
Also pro tip - avoid anything with word "Wayland".
| Also you watched PewDiePie linux video, didnt you?
| You need 0 programming experience to run Linux today or 15 years ago, buddy. Yry a lince distro for w while and see if you like it
| I never program once in my life and Arch is easy for me, just read what you want to do any dumbass can use it
| >>11eb95
thanks for the info !
i dont fw pewdiepie so i didn't know he made a video, I've just been in the mood to try something new.
| Linux Mint (cinammon) is my daily driver for university and personal use. It just werks, and as a former Windows user, Cinnamon is the comfiest and most natural desktop environment I found. I don't code whatsoever, the only IT knowledge I have is self-taught from starting on Windows XP with no internet at a young age and just playing around. Mint has some bloatware on it now it seems like but it's comfy for me. I'm sure several basic distros "just werk"
| >>1055514 as someone who's been runnig wayland for somewhere around 6 years. i would choose x11 easily, wouldn't even blink
| but ye absolutely switch to linux. take a bit of time to install some distros and figure out what you like.
the most time consuming part is probably going to be finding out all the new neat software and finding out which new neat software you like most.
i liked doing that it was fun
| Comparing it to the user experience of windows XP seems a little disingenuous. Most linux distros handle way more than XP ever did by itself, ie: automatic drivers, mounting new disks and such automatically, more services for handling things like printers, displays, etc easily. It's frankly *way* simpler than dealing with any old windows version most of the time. There are ofc outliers where you do have to fiddle with that stuff, but even modern windows systems do occasionally.
| Ig the biggest factor of that though is just sticking with a distro that's built to do things like that for you out of the box. My go to for newcomers will always be Linux Mint. Just has a lot of nice features that make things easier on newcomers.
| meh in my experience with linux all you really need to know that seems hacky is the command for installing from the repository or "app store" and the command for updating everything at once. it depends on what distro you end up going with though
| Whether you like using Linux or not is gonna really depend on what you use the computer for.
If it's just for browsing the internet and word documents then Linux is gonna be fine. You won't have to deal with anything more complicated than you would in Windows.
If you need specific art programs like Photoshop or After Effects then you're probably fucked. Hell to run on Linux and there's probably no comparable native software.
If you play games then lol, lmao, good luck.
| Games run pretty much fine on linux. Idrk why ppl still use this as a big talking point tbh. It's really easy to get most games running by just ttying one or two versions of proton, and if there's some kind of issue then 9 times out of 10 after that you can just find the solution on protonDB. It was hell a few years ago, but nowadays it's almost a smoother experience than on windows. Obv there's still exceptions with kernel anticheat. But it's not the gotcha ppl think anymore.
| I've been using linx mint cinnamon mint since 2023 and my IT experience is basically >>1055569.
So far it's been kinda mixed.
Most of my annoyances have been trouble shooting of compatibility issues with across laptops. Stuff like Wifi randomly shutting off, speakers not working, it crashing but one I get over that it's fine. Ofc this varies, sometimes it does just work out of the box.
Time shift is a godsend, making system snapshots has made me more comft w tinker w stuff
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| I hate macs and I'm sick windows/microsoft bullshit but Linux stuff is very daunting as a newcomer. I am very computer literate but programming is just not a part of my skill set (yet) so I'm wondering just how necessary that knowledge is in using Linux/any distro's. thnx <3