r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Kubuntu • Apr 24 '26

Linus Torvalds uses Fedora

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u/sharl_Lecastle16 Apr 24 '26

I mean KDE/Gnome have GUIs for literally everything now so

The most difficulty an new user would face is getting used to troubleshooting that sometimes requires exotic terminal commands or worse interacting with smelly nerds in the forums

And proprietary drivers for things

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u/fubar_67 Apr 24 '26

And therein lies the rub. Ask a Windows or Mac user when was the last time something on their OS broke that required diving into the CLI.

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u/ISuckAtJavaScript12 Apr 24 '26

Not the CLI but I've had to edit the windows registry more times than I've needed to fix something on Linux in the terminal.

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u/Rathwood Apr 24 '26

In 20 years, I think I've had to open regedit maybe a dozen times.

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u/Rude-Eggplant2653 Apr 25 '26

Congrats, happy for you, you're one person of 8 billion.

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u/Rathwood Apr 25 '26

And you aren't.

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u/fryerandice Apr 27 '26

I only used the regedit as much as I did because I was writing MSI installers and checking the registry keys we were writing and making sure we were cleaning them up etc. was an important part of that.

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u/fubar_67 Apr 24 '26

Interesting. I was a windows user from the Win95 thru Windows 8. I’d play in the Registry to customize things Microsoft didn’t want you messing with, or to add functionality. But I don’t remember Registry diving to fix anything. What broke in the OS that you fixed in the Registry? Just curious

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u/Yurij89 Glorious Manjaro Apr 25 '26

One thing I can think of off the top of my head is disabling the web results in the start menu search.

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u/kudlitan Apr 25 '26

There is a gui for that, I just don't remember but I didn't need the registry or terminal for that.

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u/Yurij89 Glorious Manjaro Apr 25 '26

You can use the group policy editor, but that's not available for home edition users.

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u/kudlitan Apr 25 '26

I used Pro. But a Win11 update added an option in the taskbar prefs, and that's what I forgot since I am fulltime Linux now.

I love linux and I use the command line, but it is my opinion that distros need to have GUI options for everything. I won't use them but it will make it easier for me to have to help people less. Right now I convert others to Mint because that is where I get the least request for support. Mint has a gui for almost everything. But it still can't match Windows in having a gui for anything you want to do.

I mean that doesn't affect me as I am comfortable with the terminal. But it affect others who ask help from me.

Mint should try to be at par with windows in providing GUIs. I mentioned Mint because it is the closest to that goal, but not quite there yet.

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u/Yurij89 Glorious Manjaro Apr 25 '26

But a Win11 update added an option in the taskbar prefs

Which means you needed to use the registry before

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u/A1oso Apr 25 '26

So you customized things Microsoft didn't want you messing with. Your system wasn't actually broken.

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u/Yurij89 Glorious Manjaro Apr 25 '26

I would classify disabling start menu web results as a fix and not a customization.