I already did all that. I had a Lenovo ThinkPad from 2018-2024 (RIP it died) completely Linux/Ubuntu but I really didn’t know how to use it. I just used it like windows. Didn’t know how to maximize its linux capabilities.
It is amazing how much you can learn when the only way to get OpenOffice working is to troubleshoot outdated C syntax errors in the output generated while compiling with clang. Time solves even the most abstruse problems, whether you planned for it or not.
Thus applies to everything. Force yourself to do stuff. Install Programms that you think are cool. Dare yourself to try new software. This is what teaches you how to use Linux. Oh, this software isn’t available for your Distro and they don’t have a flatpak/snap/App Image? Compile it from source. This doesn’t work? Figure out why. Sometimes this leads to frustration and wasting a lot of time, but that’s how you learn stuff.
Great suggestion. I’m currently trying to figure out Flatpak builds because I want to try Vega Strike on the Steam Deck (the AUR doesn’t like it). As someone used to Docker and VMs, dependency management is absolutely bizarre, confusing, and hard to find documentation on.
I bought a RedHat Unleashed book as a kid back in the late 90s simply because it came with an iso for RH 5 already burned to CD. I didn’t have a cd-r drive, and I couldn’t figure out how to boot from my external Zip Disk drive. I kinda miss Zip Disk, those were pretty cool.
It’s full circle back to how Slashdot was for me. Though at the time shuttleworth and canonical were seen as good guys. I haven’t used it for years, but I guess snap really made people dislike them.
It’s not just Snap, but Snap is the latest example of a bigger problem. For a while now Ubuntu have had a habit of trying to invent a new wheel rather than using their considerable resources to improve the wheel that the open source community is already working on. So you had all the time wasted on Unity instead of contributing to Gnome, all the time wasted on Mir instead of contributing to Wayland, and now Snap is just the latest example of them trying to push their own thing. There’s also their insistence on controlling everything about LXD which is why it’s forked off as Incus now, and so on.
Ubuntu could be doing a lot of good in the open source world, but they don’t want to be involved in anything if they’re not totally in control of it. So instead they’re a black hole sucking up resources that could be used for better things.
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