I have been obsessed with technology for as long as I can remember, I've been taking apart computers and laptops since I was a kid and at some point I stumbled upon Linux. My first experience with Ubuntu was on a Chromebook. I don't remember how but I got a custom bootloader in my old Chromebook in middle school and tried Ubuntu for the first time. Now, it was a Chromebook so obviously that experience wasnt very good, that was also like.. 7 or 8 years ago. I also tried using mint in my desktop at some point as a second operating system and struggled to get drivers working for my 3070 to the point where I just gave up. So fast forward to the present, I own an all amd system with a 9800x3d and a 9070xt, and I decided to dual boot Ubuntu again to give it another shot, this is also mainly because I am a cybersecurity and IT student and Linux is something that constantly comes up for obvious reasons and I knew that having actual experience in Linux would be valuable. I chose Ubuntu pretty much solely because it allows me to keep secure boot on for also getting into windows 11. Otherwise I was planning on using Kali. To my surprise I didn't have to play around with drivers at all. Amd hardware simply works and that's fantastic. I started out testing some games on steam to get a gauge for the performance difference in games, and surprisingly I haven't found a game that I play on steam that wouldn't open on Linux, everything just kind of works now. I'm sure the steak deck is probably influencing the support for Linux a lot when it comes to steam games. It was refreshing to just load into things without having to worry about the terminal pretty much at all. Ive been playing on Ubuntu a lot recently since then and I had an entire session of overwatch and discord with my friends where I completely forgot I was even using Linux. Now there are some things that I still have to figure out. Mainly the main uses of the terminal for applications and repositories and what not. I still don't know how to know how to install specific programs without looking it up first, but hey I guess you always have to search the websites for exes on Windows as well and so looking it up for every program isn't necessarily a problem for me. I've just become so incredibly proficient with Windows it's a challenge to feel like I'm basically starting over. I've also noticed that people online make a TON of assumptions the second you ask for help with anything in regards to Linux. A complete beginner could be like "how do I install discord on Ubuntu the deb won't work" and somebody will be like 🤓👍👆"you just add this repository" what I mean is they will give advice that assumes a baseline level of knowledge that somebody asking that question would clearly not understand, it makes learning Linux challenging because no matter what I look up there are ALWAYS and I mean ALWAYS people giving advice using language nobody who doesn't already understand Linux would understand. It's like if I was helping somebody build a computer and they were like "where does this thingy go" and they are holding up a nvme It would be stupid for me to then just be like "oh yeah that goes right in the m.2 slot below the graphics card" because clearly this person does not know what the fuck that means. There a LOT of that going on in this community honestly and it's a gigantic barrier for people trying to get into Linux. But anyways, Linux is great, gonna be using it a lot from now on.
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