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That kind of behavior can also be a sign that the documentation is hard to find or hard to comprehend. Or that something isn't documented at all, but the seniors imagine it is, because the answer is obvious to them.
Me. This is me. I'm trying to figure out linux.
"How do I do.....something"
"Oh, that's easy! Just do this and this and this. Make sure you check that that and that."
"Ok.......now how do I do the things you just said?"
"Just do those things the right way."
"I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THOSE TERMS MEAN, LET ALONE HOW TO DO THEM!!!"
"Ugh, this guy can't even follow simple directions. What part of that do you not understand???"
"Uhhhhhh......core concepts?"
Good luck with Linux. Sorry you have to deal with people who don't know how to teach new users.
And then you have all the people who tell you you're using the wrong flavor of linux and if you knew anything you would have used the version they're using. BITCH YOU'VE BEEN TELLING ME THAT I WAS USING THE WRONG OS FOR YEARS AND NOW I SWITCH AND I'M STILL DOING IT WRONG?!
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Maybe start with the core concepts first then, instead of diving in headfirst and flailing about.
I don't even know what the core concepts are. I'm still unclear by what a snapback or a flatpak are, but apperently there's drama if you pick one over the other depending on who you ask.
But I know they install programs...but I wouldn't say I know what they are.
Snap is Ubuntu proprietary. Flatpak is community. That should be all you need to know to pick one over the other.
Personally I prefer standard distro packages. If I want a container, I use a container.
Use the Source, Luke!
cmake comes to mind: I can find the docs for whatever function I want to use, but I honestly have such a hard time comprehending what they mean. It's especially frustrating because I can tell that all the information is there, and it's just me not being able to understand it, so I don't want to ask others for help, cause then I'm just bothering people with a problem that I've in principle already found the answer to, I'm just not able to apply the answer.
Then again, I've heard plenty of other people complain that the cmake docs are hard to understand..
I can relate to this. And off the record (I know it's not always a super appreciated opinion in the Fediverse): for this kind of problem I find that LLMs help a lot.
Absolutely, throwing together some simple cmake is actually a great use-case for an LLM. Once I have something basic up and running, I can play around with it and figure out how stuff works much more easily