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I'm a 20yo, Hella Autistic, ADHD-riddled spaz that likes to tinker with programs and software settings alot. I'm building a pc for the first time right now, and while I am tech savvy; or more tech savvy than most; coding, programming, tech engineering is complete and utter gibberish, and it seems like the only people that use Linux are HEAVILY experienced with those things I just listed... HOWEVER... I'm not. I just like digging around various program settings or messing with things, or personalizing them as much as I can.

The more I delve into tech or tech related spaces; whether its through building my pc or just- using this website; the more people wont stop yapping about "OOH LINUX, I LOOOVE LINUX." and every time I ask about it and why I should use it, they make it out like its an absolute godsend piece of technology (im sure it is tbh... it does look nice)

But then looking into it myself, all I see is a bunch of technical word vomit that makes no god damn sense to me. and the more I ask for people to explain this to me, the worse my confusion becomes. now I'm learning there's like 40 different "Distro's"... Someone else told me about Linux Mint, which looks nice, but again- I DO NOT want to be forced to use a terminal just to get the most outta my operating system. I like having some kind of UI to use.

idk man... from everything they say I can do with it, ESPECIALLY in terms of customization, I'm so tempted to use it. But my mental understanding of whatever tf Linux is, is at best a toddler's.

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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 7 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

If you do decide to do it, use an LLM. That shit will turbo charge your learning curve.

As side note, you can start learning now or later, choice is your. This is just an opinion tho

[–] Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

ChatGPT

LLMs are really good at dumping a big ass error log on them and saying "what's wrong" and it will find the issue, and probably point you in the right direction.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Large Language Model - the ai search stuff that will give you answers that are mostly but not always accurate but can be very helpful in figuring out how to ask the right question. So if you don't really know what you are looking for, you can ask it to tell you how to do what you want to do and it will either answer or answer in a way that is close enough to use the terminology in a web search for the right answer.

I don't use it myself, but it sounds a lot like how google used to work up to about a decade ago.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 1 points 2 weeks ago

A great diagnostic tool and a terrible psychologist

[–] monsterpiece42@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Stuff like chatgpt. Stands for Large Learning Model

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