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Actually out for a walk in the sunshine, which is exactly what I needed after the frustrations of yesterday.
Trying Linux again went exactly as expected. Why is Linux such a ball ache…?
At least one of the error messages was refreshingly honest:
“Something went wrong
“We're sorry, but we're not sure what the error is.”
Windows would just give you a bullshit error & incomprehensible code, but Linux tells it like it is (and doesn’t give you a code you can go away and search online…)
So what went wrong this time? I think my first error was choice of distro (ah, how I've missed distro-hopping!) I figured I'd just go with Ubuntu as it sounded user-friendly. Zarking oopslol.
Initially it was a bit too much like my first try of Win11 where the taskbar (or dock or whatever) was full of meaningless icons with no text. Unlike Win11, it didn't require updating the OS to add text labels, just a bit of terminal work to add an add-on.
But even that shouldn't have been necessary! Why not just allow a user to right-click the taskbar and alter its appearance…?
I tried to install (what I thought was) a fairly basic list of programs, but even that was a chore. It led to my all-time favourite absolute classic but of Linux zarkwonkery: outdated instructions.
A great deal of the time when you go to install a program from the terminal, following someone's instructions on a forum, it'll throw up some kind of (what I understand as) a dependency issue: “you can't do that because first you need this”.
Fine, back to Google to figure that out; try to install what is suggested; repeat at least once; eventually try to install something which no longer exists in a repository or wherever.
Well… some of the time. A lot of the time I just give up.
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Linux Mint, labels on panel(“panel” = taskbar) - right click panel, Applets, Group window list, click cogs for settings, select panel pane at top, Button label, window title from dropdown.
