Happy birthday 🎊🎉 GNU/Linux.
Today GNU/Linux is 32 years old.
It was thankfully released to the public on August 25th, 1991 by Linus Torvalds when he was only 21 years old student.
What a lovely journey 🤍
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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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by work, I meant actual work, and not fixing something.
Last time I fixed something was a few weeks ago. It was MPV needing an update(which was totally my fault, as I often forget to do updates) as a yt-dlp script wasn't working.
As for something breaking, my experience has been the opposite. Probably because I don't own any newest hardware and don't do much gaming, or any other stuff that might require some proprietary service for optimal functioning.
Also, my experience with the community has been excellent so far. Even my basic questions(e.g.: dual boot) were answered promptly and nicely by the community(I mostly use #linux on IRC, or distro-specific forums like linux mint forum).
I'd suggest you to give GNU/Linux one more try. Probably try out something like Nobara if you're into games. Or maybe Linux mint if you want it to just work.
Maybe you just weren't lucky the first time.
And don't worry about fake internet points. They mean nothing.
I decided to try Linux Mint a few months back at work, and was very pleasantly surprised at how easy to use and just-works it is.
We use some fedora build VMs, but I generally have a monitor dedicated to Mint while having the company’s Microsoft stuff on another.
I use Ubuntu on my desktop and when I had an NVIDIA video card I did have fairly frequent issues when the proprietary drivers would update and then not play nice with something. That card died and I replaced it with an AMD video card and I don't think I've had a "dive into the annals of gnu/Linux architecture" session since.
I also had some bad RAM at one point and spent a couple of hours trying in vain to boot into either Linux or Windows.
I do think it's fair to say that there are some things that Windows handles a little more gracefully, but the situation is not nearly as bad as it used to be / people still tend to think it is.
I also have a Windows laptop, and from time to time I'll have an issue that I'm trying to fix and I'll end up on the Microsoft forum where someone asked my question and the answers are either answers to questions that weren't asked or a set of steps that must have been based on a different build of Windows or something because there's no way to follow them on my installation of Windows 11. So maybe that's not hostile like the old school Linux forums, but it's still unhelpful.
I think both are fine, both have their pros and cons, and those pros and cons aren't as different as people make them out to be.
Is chatGPT any good at fixing Ubuntu problems?
I haven't tried that, but my guess is generally no based on other things I've tried chatGPT for and things I've read. It would probably have some lucky hits and those would seem like magic, but it would mostly produce correct-sounding answers that don't fix the problems.