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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills (lemmy.ca)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I installed a few different distros, landed on Cinnamon Mint. I'm not a tech dummy, but I feel I'm in over my head.

I installed Docker in the terminal (two things I'm not familiar with) but I can't find it anywhere. Googled some stuff, tried to run stuff, and... I dunno.

I'm TRYING to learn docker so I can set up audiobookshelf and Sonarr with Sabnzbd.

Once it's installed in the terminal, how the hell do I find docker so I can start playing with it?

Is there a Linux for people who are deeply entrenched in how Windows works? I'm not above googling command lines that I can copy and paste but I've spent HOURS trying to figure this out and have gotten no where...

Thanks! Sorry if this is the wrong place for this

EDIT : holy moly. I posted this and went to bed. Didn't quite realize the hornets nest I was going to kick. THANK YOU to everyone who has and is about to comment. It tells you how much traction I usually get because I usually answer every response on lemmy and the former. For this one I don't think I'll be able to do it.

I've got a few little ones so time to sit and work on this is tough (thus 5h last night after they were in bed) but I'm going to start picking at all your suggestions (and anyone else who contributes as well)

Thank you so much everyone! I think windows has taught me to be very visually reliant and yelling into the abyss that is the terminal is a whole different beast - but I'm willing to give it a go!

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

OP: chatGPT is your personal Linux guru. Pretend it's your friend who knows everything about linux and tell it what you want to achieve.

Paste in any error messages and it will tell you how to fix them. Just make sure it knows what distro you're using first.

That's how I learned to use docker :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

except it makes up so much shit that it's harmful past extremely noob stuff

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Actually though. I've asked it questions about impossible things related to technology and it's even gone as far to make up things for features that don't exist.

In one case I asked it once if it was possible to have Kafka partitions shared across topics (currently impossible per design) and it was confidently incorrect, even gave me a made up command line for how to achieve what I asked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

oh i know... i had it write a few very short programs, just about every single line had an error... importing shit that doesn't exist, adding incorrect arguments to functions...

but what's scary is it looks ok at a quick glance... and these ai bros with reverse imposter syndrome are going to talk their way into some dangerous situations and break important things, eventually...

but i guess that's not too different from shitty coders and contractors anyways.
e.g. the original healthcare.gov taking 500 million lines of code

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Well making mistakes is how you learn stuff. Do all this on a vm that you can blow away and start over when you do screw up. So ChatGPT giving you crap advice can still be very useful. Sometimes the wrong answer can lead you to the right one.