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I feel your pain... I recently tried very diligently to install Immich with docker after reading and watching several tutorials that claim it takea 5 minutes and its super easy... Failed.... Like 5 times...
For some advice, I use heroic game launcher to install non steam games. Bottles kind of sucks IMO.
Learning Linux can be difficult man. Even after using Linux as my daily driver for a couple years, I still feel like I know nothing man.
Real talk, start with dead simple stuff and go from there. Install a package from a package manager, update your system, make a file with terminal.
You dont have to be a wizzard man, docker shit is still over my head.
Nothing in Linux is above your skill level, you just have not found the community speaking your way of seeing it yet.
You are not the problem; the problem always is community finding is a hard unsolved problem in the Linux space.
Implicit details embedded in code can easily produce your frustration. But as I don’t know what your goals are and what you feel comfortable with, it will be hard to help
This is a lovely thought, I hope you are right. To be fair I use a lot of my stupid questions on AI because its quick and basic like what commands and what responses mean. Doesnt help build a community, but I cant be annoying people with issues constantly either. Only when I am about to lose my mind apparently.
In contrast, and I say this as someone who has used various types of Unix and Linux for a long time, I think this is an excellent use for AI, just be sure to use it to teach you things not just to solve your problems for you.
What I mean by this is I have found (mostly Claude) to be great at explaining concepts, especially if you use it to make analogies to something you know. It is absolutely not right every single time but I have had great luck with questions like “explain to me how to X in Y tool, I know how to have the same outcome by doing A in B tool” or “explain to me how docker works using a rocket as a metaphor” or things like that. Also I use it a lot for new subjects where I don’t know what to search for quite yet and I can just give it a long rambling explanation and example and ask it for 3 suggestions to research further or things to check. It is kind of useful as an expensive search engine but if you use it like a research engineer to get you started it can be really helpful in my experience.
As others have said though, I have been doing it forever both personally and professionally and I am definitely still learning. Linux knowledge is more of a skill to develop over time not something that is easy to master because it continually changes. Learning how to find or figure out the answers is the most valuable skill though, it’s impossible to remember everything. That and often there is no single right or correct answer for every situation but there are a lot of options and opinions and often more of the latter than the former. That said though usually the best answer is the one that I forget about because it functions forever and doesn’t blow up in my face hah.
Anyway, hope at least some of that is helpful, best of luck!
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Before using docker u need learn how to use it,it would be problem no matter what os if u don't know how to use this technology.Bottles yes or portproton,storage scan u can use gnome disk storage analyzer
Hot take maybe but Linux isn't for everyone, you gave it a fair shot and if it didn't click with you then use Windows again.
If you want to keep trying then you already what you have to do: just be patient and try to learn how things work, watch videos etc
Don't what that ? Then use Windows again. As a Linux user I appreciate that you tried, as most people don't.