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@shansterable @PurpleJillybeans You can get a long way on your own, the cliff for Linux is not so much daily maintenance it's having the confidence that if something goes really wrong you can fix it. If you're able to find somepony that you know who also runs Linux and that you're not scared to ask questions of or to let look at your setup, you might not need to ask them very much very often, but when you do need them, it can turn a 3 day pawblem into a 1 hour pawblem. 4 comments
@shansterable @PurpleJillybeans When my family members wanted Steam set up, I set it up for them, made sure their drivers would be fine, made sure the games they wanted would work. And then I basically never need to touch the computer again. But that's because I knew how to set it up. And from their perspective, they know that if they try something and it goes horribly wrong, I'll be there to fix it. It doesn't happen very often! But it lets them just use the computer without worrying. @shansterable @PurpleJillybeans You definitely can learn Linux on your own and install everything using online tutorials. I'm particularly fond of Endeavouros as a distro for a bunch of complicated reasons I won't get into. You can do it! :3 But my biggest advice is that if you find yourself a weird Linux friend (ie, somepony helpful that won't talk down at you), you can do the same setup and learn things without worrying that if a wiki is wrong you'll just be completely stuck. @shansterable @PurpleJillybeans In my experience that's the biggest predictor of success. I'm less worried about whether anypony can learn Linux (things have gotten much more accessible), and more worried about the safety nets to help fluffers in the instances where they do have questions or pawblems. That's part of the ideal of Linux anyway; at its best open source ought to make computer maintenance feel less isolating and more like you have a community you can rely on <3 |
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@shansterable @PurpleJillybeans Honestly, for me Linux is mostly set-it and forget it. :3
I have family members on Linux, once I've gotten them set up I rarely do tech support. The setup is the hardest part.
But some of that depends on how a computer is set up, I know how to set up a Linux distro where I know it will be stable. That's where new users sometimes fall over. Having anypony around to help bypasses that.