Just giggled as my last meme mentioned trouble with displays and appropriately, a large chunk of the replies were “well MY displays work just fine!” (And charmingly, many were thoughts of things to check, other distros etc. It’s a very kind community, though that may also be the fediverse.)
I’ve found the Linux community to be quite helpful. But I’ve not really used Lemmy for tech support. The Arch Wiki is damn near a Linux Wikipedia. And any active board dedicated to a particular Distro are where I’ve gotten help.
It seems really hard at first but the more problems you solve the more sense everything makes.
Ignore the gatekeepers.
I’ve been running slackware as my main since the late '90s, and the arch wiki has been invaluable and often recommended by all.
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Nah, some distros deserve to be shamed. Manjaro is on the top of that list.
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Ignoring all the fundamental technical issue with that distro, there’s so much morally bankrupt shit going on with manjaro that no - I’m not making that seperation. For me personally, manjaro users are on the same level as nestle customers.
closely followed by Omarchy (I’d argue it’s not a distro, but it presents itself as one, so it gets to be judged as one)
Can you recommend any deep dives on resource management?
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I would sooner ask a rabid squirrel for relaxing holiday ideas.
The collective Arch username has already encountered every single possible problem so of course their wiki is excellent
I once asked on one of the Linux gaming communities on here for tips on how to optimise my Sunshine on my system because it wasn’t streaming well at all
Got a bunch of shit from several people because I didn’t formulate my post like a proper support ticket.
Haven’t asked for help on here since.
arch wiki is good, been using that since i migrated to cachyos in september (had been running win 11 pro for years prior to that). only major issue i had was display related lol, i use a tv that needs a custom EDID to expose 120hz mode and it was an absolute nightmare trying to generate it with linux. ended up using a linux tool to dump my existing EDID then popping it into CRU via wine to generate the new one. Works pretty damn well now, have to say.
I wouldn’t say “makes sense”, but I did get a bit more confident in tackling problems after a few successes using online help.
I also gave up on things I’d like to have after failures using online help, though.
Finally, I admit I’m a donkey.
Yeah, I’m always envious of people who can make sense of the info they find on the Arch wiki and forums. For me, it’s just a patchwork of solutions I found. Every time I add one, I pray to the computer gods that it doesn’t worsen my situation.