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    [–] gramie@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I've been a Linux user on and off since 1996, and there are still times when I give up trying to install software because of cryptic error messages.

    Yes, I had my parents using Linux Mint for about 5 years, but eventually my brother who lived near them switched them to Windows because if there was a problem with Linux he couldn't help.

    Don't worry, this is definitely the year of the Linux desktop.

    [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Perhaps its just gotten better, but I've been on it for a year or two now, and I haven't come across an error message that didn't bring up solutions when copy/pasted into google. Definitely varies by distro though, I was on EndeavourOS for most of that time, and being Arch, it has like infinite documentation.

    [–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

    I haven't come across an error message that didn't bring up solutions when copy/pasted into google.

    Yeah that's more effort than like 95% of people out there can exert.

    Thinking about googling a computer problem is what separates the sheep from the goats.

    [–] Ofiuco@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 day ago

    I haven't come across an error message that didn't bring up solutions when copy/pasted into google

    I still can't make Zerotier nor Xlink Kai work as they should on Linux, they seem to connect but are either unstable or show errors that I haven't found how to deal with. Basically it's for emulators and LAN games (like tModloader).
    Searching takes me to the documentation, but their fixes are extremely limited, those didn't work so I am out of luck... And that's how I abandoned my Fedora and Debian partitions.

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