Slyder67

So i picked this because i figured out what my problem was and i only figured out after running into the very similar issues. It turns out, i had an LVM partition. This broke like everything. I couldn't access anything in file explorer and it was a pain in the butt to remove that partition so i could do a clean install of a new OS. Now, im not the smartest user when it comes to linux but ive reformatted my harddrive quite a few times on windows and never ran into an issue like this, and ya you can say "Well you picked LVM as a format so its you're fault" but the problem is that if a fairly tech literate guy can mess up this up, this could like completely screw up someones computer, even making it so they couldent reinstall windows, all on the OS install screen of supposedly the most user friendly Linux Distro.

If anyone else sees this, in Ubuntu and PopOS do you have to do something to set your account to like be able to run things as sudo? idk how else to describe it, but after just messing around with Ubuntu im able to use sudo commands in Terminal but i have no options to open things in admin in file explorer and when trying to setup the live update it failed because the user account isnt in like sudousers or something like that. Im testing Manjaro just to see if its an issue im having with Debian or if its just my laptop, but seeing the same kind of issues in PopOS and Debian got me thinking

I ran Manjaro a couple of years ago on my main desktop, and while i didnt have many bad experiences (Other than proton wasnt at a point where i felt like i could switch yet) i had a lot of frustrating situations trying to get a lib or some other weird like system file installed to fix error codes that i was getting from software installed from packman. its definitely not impossible to run manjaro without touching terminal, but if you run into any weird compatibility issues the gui, at least when i tried in 2018, didnt really have a way to fix the problem, or if it did, every solution i could find online just used terminal.

So while a lot of websites have the commands on their page in a copy and paste format, there are still many instances where that is not the case. if its in a packman its easy, if a company lists the get command on their website its not too bad, but if you dont all ready know what you are doing on Github for example then you are pretty much screwed on trying to install anything without some assistance on where to look. the green button that says get or clone gives you a command that terminal doesnt recognize "gh isnt a recognized command". You can usually find a readme that gives you the full command, which is super helpful, but if you dont know how to get that gh whatever working, then you are just stuck there trying to figure out how to install this lib that you need to run this program that you downloaded from the packman. that isnt user friendly if you dont all ready know what you need to do, and even with the limited time i spent on manjaro a couple years ago, i frequently ran in to problems just trying to get a lib installed to get something from packman working. thats a bad experience.

What file manager are you using? because i tried that exact thing in the popos file manager and that wasnt there. i saw something about nautilus being able to do that, but it simply didnt exist as an option on my install of PopOS

Thats not really true. In windows if your mouse isnt connecting to your computer, you just go to the companies website and most people know the word Driver is important to get stuff to work. google product and driver and that solves about 99% of your problems. Now, in windows, If i have an advanced mouse issue and something isnt installing properly at all, then there absolutely is fiddling, but fiddling with a bunch of commands in Terminal is significantly less intuitive then following steps to navigate settings in a Gui. in a gui you can look at the different menus and even if the steps that you have dont quite solve your problem, they often get you to a menu that can and all you have to do is just read the gui. there is nothing that tells you what -a does in a command unless you specifically lookup the syntax for that specific command, and that most likely will get you absolutely no where closer to fixing your problem unless you had enough knowledge of bash all ready to not need to google that command yourself. there is a significance difference there in the time it takes to solve a problem. Trouble shooting isnt linux specific, but the lack of intuitive design makes troubleshooting with a limited knowledge of your specific architecture almost impossible. if you dont all ready know a good amount of bash and you dont all ready know how the unintuitively named file structure works then you can either google an answer, post on a forum and wait, or just uninstall the OS and try something differently. you dont have any other options. at least in Windows, you can pretty much stumble onto almost everything you need, even if you dont know what exactly you are looking for. Sure, you wont hit Diskprat or regedit, but control panel has the solutions to A LOT of problems.

I think thats kind of my point though. Nano isnt hard to use, but there is no possible way to know nano exists unless you all ready know it does, also i now have to type in the file path ever time that i need to do any edits to system files. In windows, i can navigate to my file by clicking the folders. its intuitive. i click the file and i can generally do what i want with it. right clicking it will give you all of the options that you would need to do basic things with any file, including running it as an admin. being essentially forced into terminal is not user friendly, unless you all ready know how it works. its not intuitive, and that ease of use and inherent intuition plays a large part in why Linux has not taken more market share from Windows. even looking at Chrome OS, which absolutely has its own pitfalls, they nailed the ease of use. they nailed the intuitive design.

Honestly, This makes me feel so much better. Ive been trying to get into it because i can see the benefits of it, but the amount of crap ive gotten when bringing up the lack of ease of use has been staggering. Im not much of a forum guy so i figured i could at least come here and vent i guess, but thank you for your response.

So This has been the past 4 hours just after finishing my install on PopOS and trying to get it setup for the first time, and i felt like it was important to share the experience to help show why Linux, at least PopOS, is not in a state that is ready for mass adoption. For some context, i would say im fairly tech literate, and i have done light work in Fedora for work just doing some basic file navigation, as well as i ran manjaro on my PC for about 3 months a couple of years ago and stopped because gaming capabilities where not at a level where i could justify moving over. Terminal doesnt immediately scare me if i have direction on where to go. so here we go. also, i am installing this on a xps13 (the year right before they switched to 16x10). One i get the Drive partitions taken care of, i went into popshop to update and get started with some apps. The OS update failed due to some 404 error with the launchpad url they where trying to go to. After a couple of minutes googling, i decided i would come back to this, and instead get my mouse working. I decided to Install Piper, which i saw was a great way to get your mouse working, and when it installed from packman i tried to open it. Unable to find ratbagd. after trying to see if it was in packman (and searching libratbag and ratbagd) so i googled and found ratbagd on github. so now i had to install it with terminal, which again for me is fine, but the vast majority of users would immediately start putting windows back on their machine right then, and frankly rightly so. so i run the commands in github, but i need to install menson (Forgive my spelling i dont have the page up to reference). thats fine i was eventaully able to get that working (I think) but then i needed to like install ninja?? im not entirely sure what it is, but i basically ended up having to add an additional repository so i can get the right software to be able to run the installation for ratbagd to be able to run piper to be able to use my mouse on this machine. that is purely ridiculous. Period. like that is going to turn off at least 75% of computer users. so now, finally my mouse works. Now back to the update I Follow PopOS's page of different troubleshooting commands for their Package manager, but when it came to the advanced ones where it was specifically running commands for the package, i couldent find any way to put operating system updates, so i just moved on. after digging around for about an hour, i finally found a page that referenced the issue close enough that i could get something from it. It was saying that its likely that the URL for the updates are incorrect and i would need to go into some files to adjust that. So, all ready knowing that i have no patience for dealing with file editing in terminal, i open file manager and navigate to the ect/apt/ files and open them in the text editor. Im trying to just make these changes, but every single file in every single directory, including the Download and Documents folder they give you to feel like windows, is all read only. I could not find a way to just open up a dam file in whatever bs sudo/root access to just make simple text document changes. i tried in terminal, but i just lost it when i had to google "How to close out of a file in bash terminal". now if you are a frequent linux user, you might be sitting there thinking "Well its not hard, you just need to know how to do it" and that right there is the problem. there is not a person in their right mind that would guess ctrl+z Q or Z Z to close a file in terminal either without or with saving, and the fact that i cant make any adjustment to any file on my computer at all in the file explorer is the most backwards useless design. There is no reason to have a file manager if you cant edit any files in it. to clarify, i couldent drag and drop files even between the windows like files they create for you, much less in any of the main dir's like ect. It doesnt matter how less secure, more bulky, and less privacy focused an OS is, if that is even roughly the experience that you get when just trying to do basic stuff, there will be no mass adoption of your platform. Ease of use is king. I know this experience is PoPOS focused, and im installing Ubuntu on that same computer right now to see if the experience is any better (Maybe it will come with the lib's needed to connect a simple wireless mouse!) but ive had ver similar experiences in Arch trying to just do things that should be incredibly straight forward on an OS, and i got tiered of waiting a couple of days to be condescended. Its also really important to call this out about PoPOS, since it is at the top of so many peoples list of easy user friendly OS's. Im glad that i know that this isnt what using Linux needs to be like, but the experience of this OS being the top of the list for ease of use and running into these kinds of issues would absolutely completely kill any chance i ever try a different linux distro again. This side needs to be talked about and understood more when we are pushing people to try linux. Im sure there are relatively easy fixes to these problems, but in the end those fixes are not findable by someone who doesnt know exactly what to look for. I know most devs get this, but if you never understood why people who tried linux complained that its not easy to use and is not beginner friendly, this is why.

Hello all, I am trying to finish up my rack mounted PC/NAS combo device and i want to verify the equipment i am buying before i purchase it. Long story short i am trying to get a setup similar to Linus's Personal Rig 2015, where he has the PC in another room and uses a thunderbolt optical cable and Thunderbolt 3 dock to get IO at his monitor. I was looking at the following thunderbolt card, as well as one of the Corning optical cables, and the below thunderbolt 3 dock. So from what i have heard Thunderbolt is pretty confusing, and im not sure how to proceed.The Corning Cables use Mini Display Port adapters. The thunderbolt card linked below has Mini DP ports, However they are only saying how great they mini DP ports are at giving 4k resolution and nothing that that particular port is Thunderbolt 3, vs the USB type C ports which have the Thunderbolt logo. On top of that, i am trying to find a Mini DP to usb c Thunderbolt 3 adapter so i can connect it to the Thunderbolt 3 dock, but i can only find things that say Mini DP to USB C and they dont state clearly that they are thunderbolt compatible. Again from my understanding Mini DP and Thunderbolt 3 with a Mini DP adapter use different Pin Outs.... Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I have watched the Tech Quickie Episode, but to be honest that wasnt really pointed to this particular issue... For reference i have the following motherboard https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/ROG-STRIX-Z370-E-GAMING/ https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-Thunderbolt-Components-GC-ALPINE-RIDGE/dp/B0722SV69N https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MZ2ATGK/?coliid=IAPWSN54BT3D4&colid=37DVC82ZKFHOP&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Okay, Long story short I got the following case at a garage sale https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00N9CXGSO/ref=yo_ii_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Now, I have been planning on building a decent gaming rig for a while (all I still need is ram, cpu, and gpu) and I wanted to combine my nas ahs my pc into this one unit. I will have 2 512gb nvme ssd's for my Gaming PC storage and, if needed, I can add a 128gb data 3 ssd for NAS OS. I watched Linus's video on the same similar setup, but I will be 100% I haven't worked with VM's or unRAID before. Is there an easier way to do this than creating a windows and unRAID VM? Like, for example, using share folders? Ideally, I dont want to compromise on the capacity of my system for gaming (like allocating cpu cores and ram to a VM) so an windows 10 solution would be most preferable. Any feedback and points in the right direction would be amazing! Thank you