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Naw, Linux is easy, until OBS won't start virtual camera because V4L has dependency on the previous kernel which is pretty old.
if you did't run it right after the update, you might not even put together it was a kernel issue.
No easy errors, start obs from cli see v4l errors out, start digging into v4l, it's not hard, but you have to know about it, then you have to know grub well enough to select an old kernel.
Yeah, that's a relatively easy issue to debug. It goes to show that it's really about where your familiarity level is.
Personally, my familiarity level is maybe 2 out of 10. Don't really know what I'm doing with Linux, only made the jump a few weeks ago. I've had to google some stuff but it's still much less hassle than windows. I just got bored of seeing all those 'switch to linux durr' comments so I gave it a try, turns out they were right.
Those comments really do get tedious. But there's no billion-dollar company pushing desktop Linux and buying podcast ads and whatnot, so ... there's really no other way to get the word out.
If there is one thing AI is useful for, it's to make sense of and learn Linux.
It can be good at sifting through the top search results, but if people stop posting those questions because of AI where will the answers come from?
Hopefully nowhere so I no longer have to read comments like "its good for making sense of Linux".
These people don't care how LLMs function, nor that information is true, false or complete nonsense. It strokes their false ego.
It's spectacular at working with nixos. I can tell it to do whatever to the declarative configs, if it f's it up, i have git backups.