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Learning fixes without looking everything up or having the answer given outright (sh.itjust.works)
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How do you guys actually learn how to fix certain things? Its mind boggling how one can visit a forum and there's people saying "oh yeah just run -c xhhkrk ()<>[] bbbhjl and that will fix your sound issue"

Like WHERE do you even start? I hate having to look things up all the time when everyone else on windows "just works". Copying commands off forums endlessly doesn't really help you learn.

Example, installed cachyos on an older laptop, but sound and screen dimming will not work. I have no ides where to even begin with that. I feel like a windows user could at least poke around control panel and probably fix the issue but its way harder with linux.

I have had luck with almost everything working with mint on my desktop (except vr, oculus is a nighmare to get working) and have been running that about a year. If I had to set it all up again id have to re look up everything I forgot since then..

If there was something like man but easier to parse through, that would be immensely helpful. Like for my sound issue, if there was a better organized manual that I could look under "sound" and see the inner workings laid out and common issues, thats what we need. Otherwise people are going to be terrified of linux because its so hard.

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[–] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

2 things: Experience Repetition

First of all, continue to look up how to fix things, there's no problem with that. HOWEVER, make sure you understand what the commands you are entering do. Same thing applies to Windows as well, I've seen plenty of troubleshooting posts that and with "paste these 3 lines into power shell"

The more you do this, you'll get a feel for how everything is organized. You might not know HOW to fix your issue at this point, but you will at least know where to look for logs and where to find the config files relevant to your issue. Once you've fixed enough problems, you'll start to be able to figure it out on your own. You can also help out with bug reports better now too.

You also need to do this often enough that you remember these things. I've got a bunch of Linux installations (3 desktops, 1 laptop, 4 small servers) so I get plenty of practice changing things. When I only had the 1 computer running Linux, it was a lot harder to remember everything.