How do you guys actually learn how to fix certain things? Its mind boggling how one can visit a forum and there’s people saying “oh yeah just run -c xhhkrk ()<>[] bbbhjl and that will fix your sound issue”
Like WHERE do you even start? I hate having to look things up all the time when everyone else on windows “just works”. Copying commands off forums endlessly doesn’t really help you learn.
Example, installed cachyos on an older laptop, but sound and screen dimming will not work. I have no ides where to even begin with that. I feel like a windows user could at least poke around control panel and probably fix the issue but its way harder with linux.
I have had luck with almost everything working with mint on my desktop (except vr, oculus is a nighmare to get working) and have been running that about a year. If I had to set it all up again id have to re look up everything I forgot since then…
If there was something like man but easier to parse through, that would be immensely helpful. Like for my sound issue, if there was a better organized manual that I could look under “sound” and see the inner workings laid out and common issues, thats what we need. Otherwise people are going to be terrified of linux because its so hard.
it is just practise i guess. like we all start searching online, and then eventually keep on learning - oh my mic is clippin, but i turned my volume way down and it is still doing that - why would that be - and then remember that 1 have 2 audio related things in my system - 1 is pipewire for all user facing stuff, and then alsa (alsamixer) for actual hardware - and oh look - i had accidentally given an internal mic boost of 100%. it is not like i got to know that that is a thing in a dream, but over past 2-3 years of looking online, i know what are common culprits, and i also have learnt a bit about my system and how different things are done. when you know that, it is easier to look up a particular manpage or README