asking seriously. because i installed kubuntu after setting up luks2 encryption in installer and it all seemed fine. until i booted into ubuntu and saw grub menu asking for commands . i asked chatgpt it gave complex fixes and stuff. so im now installing windows 11 again and deleted kubuntu.
now im not blaming linux. but this is a genuine question. is linux hard?
i had bitlocker encryption working perfectly on windows 11 no boot issues.
It’s your beginning; you knew nothing.
You were judging the difficulty of using the system by just the boot screen, it seems.
You probably had difficulty following the documentation.
The problem you’ve encountered is an easy one to fix.
Even if you are fond of AI, try providing it with more context next time. It could give you a fix.
Try reduce your AI usage. It’s not good for you.
Read more. Follow the instructions. Documentation is supposed to be helpful.
That’s not usually what happens, you should get an installer that’s a gui, and it should give you a gui, something went wrong with your installation.
Without more details I can’t say what happened for sure though
Yeah, although just trying the installation another time might be easier than debugging this problem…
That’s not usually what happens
But the front fell off!
Your install was probably fine. But odds are you chose a (somewhat) manual installation and installed Grub (the bootloader) to the wrong device. If you’re up for a retry: go the fully-automatic route with the installer. You can try it in a VM first. Just set up VirtualBox on your Windows machine and install Kubuntu to a virtual disk. That way, you can figure out what may have gone wrong. And if shit hits the fan again: you still have a functional operating system, reset the VM and go again.
Linux is not hard to use. Windows is a much bigger pain in the ass.
Don’t ask chatgpt about anything, that is always a bad idea.
Give Fedora a try, I would avoid Ubuntu and the derivatives.
Asking AI in my experience is not always bad but you have to know at least a little about the subject for it to be helpful. If you just tell it “this doesn’t work, fix it” and leave out important information then it comes up with strange solutions.
It’s different, which sometimes translates to harder.
It doesn’t work the same as Windows which means that some of your hard earned knowledge of Windows is wasted and some is actually coming back to bite you as you approach a task the wrong way.
I use Fedora 45 KDE as an example of how Linux might have hidden steps that isn’t mentioned straight away:An example of how easy it can seem to setup Fedora 45:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/beginners-guide/install_fedora/Things that guide conveniently forgets to mention - rpmfusion, ffmpeg and nvidia:
https://rpmfusion.org/EnablingRpmFusionDuringFedoraInstall
https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIAUse the Discover store to make it easy to find and install software if you prefer gui over terminals:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/kde/appinstallation/To ensure that an app installation works well in Linux you should always try to use the official repositories, flatpaks, docker or appimages.
Downloading an installation file (.deb/.rpm) from the developers github is not the normal way to install software, when you use a repository (or alternate methods like flatpaks, docker and appimages) you save yourself a lot of headaches when it comes to updating your software and lowers the risk of “dependency hell” where different software want different versions of the same libraries.To get Multimedia and Nvidia gpus to work properly you want to use rpmfusion to install the drivers.
Never install the drivers directly from Nvidia, it will only come back to haunt you with weird errors, bugs and problems and is a common trap for former Windows users.The guides aren’t difficult, but the main guide forgets to mention the extra steps needed that most users want to do.
Must be as easy as windows, but in windows the easy way to fix a big problem is install again, un linux you can reinstall or… Fix with commands. Probably in your case you need to write commands because something go wrong with the installation, maybe you did something wrong, or maybe Ubuntu read something in a bad way and make a mistake installing Ubuntu. Is impossible to know if you don’t share the exact error message.
Linux is a spectrum, from super hard to very easy. Sounds like you hit a not-easy one.
If you want an easy time, stick with the major distros (Fedora, Ubuntu, etc), and avoid any complex setups. Use that for a while to get familiarity, and then build up from there.
I disagree, I got more edge cases with Ubuntu and Fedora than an immutable distro. It’s always when trying to update stuff it inevitably breaks. An immutable distro just works, it can rebuild the world when updating and you never get into trouble
I have no experience with immutable distros, but aren’t they pretty config file heavy? Are they that nice to operate as a brand new user?
I personally use one that’s config file heavy and I like it because I have two devices so I can change something on both without issue
Ubuntu and Fedora than an immutable distro
Bazzite is Fedora and immutable
That’s why it’s not just called Fedora
It’s tough at the start when you know nothing.
“i asked chatgpt” microslop is for you
Disagree, asked chatgpt and fixed many issues. A lot of the time the documentation is too long and esoteric
chatgpt apparently knows big words.
Linux Mint is your answrr. Any flavor should work
Depends on what you’re trying to accomplish. Installing a Linux distribution and using it for everyday tasks (including full-disk-encryption) should be fairly easy. It’s basically just pressing “Continue” a bunch of times for me. And after a while I get a desktop with a browser, an email client etc and I’m set.
If you want advice: Maybe go for one of the more popular distribuitions as of today. (K)Ubuntu is okay-ish but I don’t think it’s all that great. Or maybe ask someone to help you find the issue. Computers are known to be fairly complicated in general and there’s always some annoying issues.
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