/tech/ - Soyence and Technology

Most linux distros offer a GUI installer which is just clicking buttons until it installs.
Try linux mint for a retardproof distro as you don't even need to touch a terminal for, though I personally just recommend fedora or something similar as a general purpose OS. For gaming you could try cachyos but it is arch so you will have to learn some stuff sometimes when using it.

how im trying out linux rn is using a vm, doe i had to watch a tutorial for installing the vm (the guy teaching me it made it interesting doe)
im using linux mint rn, and the other guy is right about how you dont even need to use a terminal geg. i still wanna use gentoo in the future but idk how i'd get into that

Linux Mint has a clicky click installer, also there's an FAQ page on linuxmint.com if you ever come across any issues during the process
I suggest you post your computer details here such as CPU, RAM, GPU, and etc. so we can know what the issue is

Don't just listen to some random nigga tutorial, do a follow-along and you should be good.
Not to flex but I managed to install a working linux distro in a foreign language without a tutorial (because there wasn't any), so it's possible for you to do the same just by reading the options carefully.

take pendrive and burn a distro on it with Rufus. They can usually boot from the drive and you can click around and prompt like that
>bothering with a VM
back your shit up on something and just install Linux

>hey can usually boot from the drive and you can click around and prompt like that
Shit like this is unironic cancer especially when the distro you want lacks the correct drivers you need, but you still know how to download them separately.
OP if you can find an ISO that boots into a plain "white text on blue background" installer, choose it. You vvill be euphoric from all the nostalgia this probs give you anyway because it looks like DOS o algo.

>>40930
>You vvill be euphoric from all the nostalgia this probs give you anyway because it looks like DOS o algo.
No one here is old enough to have used it

>Using a VM
There's an easier solution to trying linux on your PC
>Get a USB stick you don't use that much (I recommend at minimum 16 or 32 gigs of storage) and plug it into your PC. If there are important files on the stick back them up.
>Download Balena Etcher since it's easier to use
>Download a Linux distro image of your choosing (choose the Live USB option, should be available for most distros. I recommend either Mint or Debian for beginners)
>AGAIN, BACK EVERYTHING UP IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU CARE ABOUT, THE INSTALLATION WILL WIPE EVERYTHING ON THE USB STICK
>Open Balena Etcher, select your ISO image and choose your USB stick (double check that this is the USB stick you want to install it on)
>Click on flash and wait a bit. Balena Etcher will do everything for you
>Once it's done, turn your PC off and go to your BIOS options. You may have to turn off disk encryption or BitLocker for this.
>Press either Escape or Delete and try finding an option called "Boot Menu" or something similar.
>You should see a listing with all drives on the PC. Select your USB stick and press enter
>Depending on your install, you should see a black and gray menu with a bunch of option. The first one (or the one with live on it) is the one you should choose.
If you did all of this correctly, you should see a desktop environment of your chosen Linux distro. This is great if you want to test how and if everything works. Not every distro will work perfectly with your current PC setup, especially if you have a NVIDIA graphics card, as NVIDIA is jewish and requires users to download their drivers on Linux. Everything you save will be wiped from memory as soon as you turn it off, so keep that in mind.
I hope I wrote this well enough, and I wish you a good Linux journey.

cachyOS

but ask deepseek or gemini-pro or whatever llm you prefer on how to install programs using flatpak / aur.
Yay is a pretty easy package manager to use

honestly you dont have to know much… now that ai exists you can just keep asking it what terminal commands to copy paste to achieve something - you dont even have to know what it means

>>40934
I wouldn't recommend anything arch-based since it's very unstable and too hostile for a newbie to use (also has a lot of security issues now). I do agree on the AI thing however. Most people don't need to know everything to get into linux

>>40936
Where's the asian wife and other members comprised of soyboys and troons? GEEEEEEEG

>>40935
well Ubuntu used to be the recommendation, but at this point CachyOS is way less fucked up for new users than Ubuntu

and you can set up snapshots to un-fuck-up your system easily in cachy by picking BTRFS+Limine in the installer

>>40938
What about Debian/Devuan and Mint DE? Sure, they don't have the newest software around, but they are stable distros that won't put up a fight when using them

>>40939
Debian is simple enough if you just use flatpaks and don't get forced to put in some esoteric commands to support your hardware. But I have a 980ti and it sucks to make it work on Debian13

>>40940
Could be because of driver problems. That's the main flaw with Debian, it doesn't have the newest software