On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 3:09 PM Will McDonald <wmcdonald@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 at 18:20, home user via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:There's a lot of commonality across most distros, so while something (the link I referenced, for example) was from an Ask Ubuntu branch of Stackexchange, a lot of the advice in it is still applicable.
It helps to understand where distros differ. Package management differs, including policies for what gets
packaged, and (where there are viable alternatives), which is installed and configured, accounts for many
differences. For example: SElinux is available in Debian, but the default iis AppArmor.
arch linux often has excellent documentation
[...]When it comes to Fedora and Linux matters, I much prefer to trust, and much more trust, the expert, professional,
very experienced helpers in this list over google or any other internet search engine (or "AI"). This list's help is
likely to be current and specific.100%, but I (almost) always like to do (and demonstrate) legwork first personally. :) It's really just helping people help you, if that makes sense?
Expert, professional, very experienced helpers are a scarce resource. The linux community
benefits if other users do as much as they can on their own. The internet is full of "quick fixes"
to common linux problems. Some are correct but a growing fraction are AI clickbait nonsense.
Use man pages and documents from distros and kernel.org to make sure you understand what
suggested solutions actually do.
Helping people help you may promote you from a user needing help to an expert, professional,
very experienced helper.
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George N. White III
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