I guess I was supposed to just ape it, but there was one (contextual) info missing that made me repeat the same error multiple times, until I had an eureka moment and figured what I was doing wrong. The steps to go through were explained clearly, but it wasn’t immediately clear to me what I was actually doing. Ohhh, that is actually one of the challenges I had solving the bluetooth pairing problem. They just lazily dump all common commands into an article and call it a day, instead of explaining what each thing means, instead of only what it does… There are tons of tutorials about this, but, to be honest, none of them are really beginner friendly, at least to my knowledge. Forget what you know about Windows, when thinking about Linux and trying to do anything in Linux. Therefore, long story short, if you want to learn Linux, you have to learn from a Linux perspective. Sure, there are things, that are similar, but if you compare them a lot, you will find out, that it’s not helping you, because even if they seem similar, like, for example, Systemd and Windows Services, they are still fundamentally different. Try to find proper not-outdated GUI applications for Linux. If you think in Windows and try to translate it, it won’t work. You have to think in Linux and then you can learn it. This is the real way to learn a new language. Think like someone who uses the language as their default. The best practice, when learning a new language, is to think in the new language, in the first place. The worst thing you can do, is always think in your language and then translating it to the other language, in your head, every time you want to speak. Learning Linux is like learning a new language. I appreciate my intelligence being trusted, but sometimes I need to have things explained to me like I’m a five years old, and this doesn’t seem to be a thing in the Linux communities, which seem geared towards very tech-savvy people.Ī big part of the transition is learning the equivalencies between Windows and Linux. I had to read multiple walkthroughs of the process, worded in a way that if I wasn’t a natural tinkerer and not too scared of breaking stuff, I wouldn’t have made it through. Setting up bluetooth devices so they don’t need to be reset on every boot from Win to Linux and back is incredibly complex for the casual user, especially LE ones like my mouse. How easy is it to set myself up with a particular Linux distro, then change my mind and try another one? I haven’t done serious searching about this yet, but I’ve yet to stumble upon a kind of beginner’s primer to using the Terminal commands for basic operations. To this day, I’m still not sure how I need to manage keeping my installed applications up-to-date. at first, when browsing apps from the app manager, I couldn’t understand why there were so many variations of the same apps available to download. Things I wish I had better knowledge of, coming in With minimal searching for guidance on the web plus some tinkering and fooling around, I quickly made 90% of the way to get almost complete functional parity with what I had on Windows, with some nice perks on top. For example, replaced Foobar2000 with Clementine - installed a the Soundbox desklet to have a minimal music player interface on my desktop - hiding the taskbar and installed Unclutter to hide the mouse cursor. For apps, I found everything I used on Windows, or close-enough alternatives. This is a mid-range PC from a few years ago (i7 6700, 16gb ram, low-mid range Radeon from that era), so I’m not expecting blazing fast performance, but I’m seeing a nice improvement. Performance is overall better than on Win10. I have to say, so far it’s been relatively fun and easy to set up. My girlfriend also uses it and isn’t interested in having to fiddle around to make things work, so I have the additional (fun) challenge of making the transition as seamless and painless as possible. This is a media center PC I use in my living room to watch series, movies, browse the net, play music and use for gaming. Apologies in advance if I bring out some really obvious stuff. First post here! I just installed Linux Mint on my PC for the first time, a few days ago, dual booting along with Win 10 so this is all very new and fresh for me.
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