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To use Linux properly, you've got to "unlearn" everything you know about computers and go back from the ground-up. And breaking yourself free from bad habits (that only Windows gives you) such as relying on installers to do the job for you -- i.e "double-clicking your cares away". Which can be a fun experience when compiling (The "turbo nerd way" to install things on linux) becomes "second nature", giving you the ability to taste "true freedom" of making (pretty much) anything work the way as you may seem fit.
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No, really. You'll have a heck of a nerdgasm when you compile something that is not "normally supported" on an obscure pc/distro. You will feel like a demigod.
t. That is how I felt the first time I compiled a half-life openBSD port... on Linux. I did it "by following my gut" and everything "werked".
I like clicking my problems away.
Relying on easy, simple stuff does not (always) mean a good thing let alone being good for you and your mental health. Even less so allowing proprietary, capitalism-driven developers to do whatever they want with your PC (which makes me wonder what you are even doing in this community in first place if you just "don't care"), but hey... you do you.
What is it with people on Lemmy and being absolute cunts? You start out okay, but with each sentence you just go lower and lower until finally you’re resorting to personal insults.
You must be a very unliked person.