Learning how to use a Linux distribution like Mint doesn’t require any special degree or knowledge. I’d say you can do that in a weekend or so. Especially since you can ask the AI about everything and it’s surprisingly good at Linux questions and terminal commands, although you don’t really need those for Mint.
If you’ve never been into Microslop Windows, navigating their piece of shit os can be equally as daunting since you are not free to do what you want, you can only do what MS want you to do which is completely counterintuitive to what Linux is.
Just because something is the market leader, doesn’t make it good or better than the alternative.
I get that you don’t care for Linux, and that’s fine but if you are the slightest interested in IT, you’re doing yourself a disservice not learning it.
I don’t think you know at all where I’m coming from. You don’t seem to understand how great AI are at documentation. I’d rather ask an AI than browse the mint forums reading decades old threads that won’t lead to anything anyways. That’s just wasting time. What’s your argument?
That’s fine. If people want to work in an inefficient manner and waste time, I’m not gonna stop them. I will take advantage of AI and I’m happy to do so. It makes my job within IT easier and that’s nice!
Do you ever click in to see more details? We used to have memes about stack overflow always having the answer to tech questions. Now we have ai summarizing stack overflow for us, but stack overflow no longer gets the activity to generate new answers, or even stay open.
You seem to think that stack overflow conatins all the answers to everything.
The AI can search and look through the web faster than any human on the planet, yes that includes stack overflow, but also forums and other open websites, anything that can be indexed basically.
Often times when you have an issue, it’s very rare that you are the first one to have it, so I’d say all the info you need to solve it is already out there and AI do a fantastic job to help you find an answer to your problem quicker than your could ever do yourself. Why not take advantage?
Why not remove the search function from stack overflow, you could just read all the questions and articles yourself to find the most sutible one for your question. It’s quite nice to have a server that can look though all questions available and suggest to you which ones are the best for you based on your search term. It’s exacly that, but way borader. How is that not a good thing?
Stack overflow still had an amazing percentage of answers to tech question but of course it’s not the only source.
Realistically I used to use a search engine for answers and it was pretty good about discovering relevant answers. Usually I clicked a handful off links from the first page of results, evaluated them, and selected the answer
Now the search engine returns an ai summary of the top results. It’s a bit slower but sometimes I can just use that. Other times I may need to click into sources for more information or to evaluate what it’s telling me. The big difference is who does the first evaluation/summary. Originally the ai was slower and less accurate but it rapidly improved
But here’s the problem. The older approach meant I clicked into the source. If they relied on ads or tracking, they received their income to support themselves. If it’s a gamified community source, responders got their karma. It was sustainable. Now with the ai, no one visits the original site and no one has incentive to contribute more answers. The ai is rapidly improving at the cost of its own sources
Oh, I hate all of those because of all the murders they keep committing. Young and vulnerable people go to them looking for help with homework and end up being talked into isolation and suicide.
Learning how to use a Linux distribution like Mint doesn’t require any special degree or knowledge. I’d say you can do that in a weekend or so. Especially since you can ask the AI about everything and it’s surprisingly good at Linux questions and terminal commands, although you don’t really need those for Mint.
If you’ve never been into Microslop Windows, navigating their piece of shit os can be equally as daunting since you are not free to do what you want, you can only do what MS want you to do which is completely counterintuitive to what Linux is.
Just because something is the market leader, doesn’t make it good or better than the alternative.
I get that you don’t care for Linux, and that’s fine but if you are the slightest interested in IT, you’re doing yourself a disservice not learning it.
I hear where you are coming from, but you just said “Use AI” on Lemmy. This should be fun 😁
I don’t think you know at all where I’m coming from. You don’t seem to understand how great AI are at documentation. I’d rather ask an AI than browse the mint forums reading decades old threads that won’t lead to anything anyways. That’s just wasting time. What’s your argument?
I didn’t have one. I was asserting the idea that people were going to attack your post for saying “Use AI.”
That’s fine. If people want to work in an inefficient manner and waste time, I’m not gonna stop them. I will take advantage of AI and I’m happy to do so. It makes my job within IT easier and that’s nice!
Do you ever click in to see more details? We used to have memes about stack overflow always having the answer to tech questions. Now we have ai summarizing stack overflow for us, but stack overflow no longer gets the activity to generate new answers, or even stay open.
You seem to think that stack overflow conatins all the answers to everything. The AI can search and look through the web faster than any human on the planet, yes that includes stack overflow, but also forums and other open websites, anything that can be indexed basically.
Often times when you have an issue, it’s very rare that you are the first one to have it, so I’d say all the info you need to solve it is already out there and AI do a fantastic job to help you find an answer to your problem quicker than your could ever do yourself. Why not take advantage?
Why not remove the search function from stack overflow, you could just read all the questions and articles yourself to find the most sutible one for your question. It’s quite nice to have a server that can look though all questions available and suggest to you which ones are the best for you based on your search term. It’s exacly that, but way borader. How is that not a good thing?
Stack overflow still had an amazing percentage of answers to tech question but of course it’s not the only source.
Realistically I used to use a search engine for answers and it was pretty good about discovering relevant answers. Usually I clicked a handful off links from the first page of results, evaluated them, and selected the answer
Now the search engine returns an ai summary of the top results. It’s a bit slower but sometimes I can just use that. Other times I may need to click into sources for more information or to evaluate what it’s telling me. The big difference is who does the first evaluation/summary. Originally the ai was slower and less accurate but it rapidly improved
But here’s the problem. The older approach meant I clicked into the source. If they relied on ads or tracking, they received their income to support themselves. If it’s a gamified community source, responders got their karma. It was sustainable. Now with the ai, no one visits the original site and no one has incentive to contribute more answers. The ai is rapidly improving at the cost of its own sources
Mint has an AI? Wow, now I hate Mint
lol no. That’s now what I said at all. I was refering to chatgpt, claude of what ever flavour of AI you wanna use…
Oh, I hate all of those because of all the murders they keep committing. Young and vulnerable people go to them looking for help with homework and end up being talked into isolation and suicide.