There’s been a lot of configuration going on, and I’ve got to say that Claude has shown itself to be very useful at troubleshooting. Problems have been resolved, scripts have been written, and I’m now running a cloudflare tunnel to my servers.
And I’m a bear of very little brain.
Edit: I don’t understand the downvotes. It’s been a hell of a timesaving tool, and I’m passing along information. I would still be struggling and that’s a fact, I have done many things beyond my skillset to get to this point.
Yep. But you do understand a lot of us don’t want to be students of Linux. We just want to do things we want to do. Without having to dig through forums and manual pages to find the solution.
If you want a culture where your niche operating system is dominated by people who read through forums and manual pages to find the needle in the haystack for the problem they’re trying to solve, then continue with the mindset that downvotes something that tries to help people who are novices switch to your system. (Because newbie, Claude.ai will help you)
BUT If you want a system that is opened up to people switching from Windows to it, then you need to make it a shit-ton more accessible.
If that means having a virtual assistant who will patiently walk people through the arcane commands required to make scripts to configure WLANs and whatever other required bash commands necessary to get things done…
Not to mention diagnose graphics or whatever problems that they’re having and solve them without having spend days weeks or months not being able to use their system…
Then open up your minds a little bit to the idea that AI may assist you in getting there.
I agree with the general idea of what you’re saying, but it’s a slippery slope.
Most people I know personally would never take the effort to learn anything past the point of “Ask ChatGPT” when they have a problem. What happens when the model is wrong, or simply cannot solve the problem? Or maybe they have no network connection and cannot run something suitable locally?
At that level of coddling, then they might not even have the ability to find and open a man page, or edit a config file without a GUI. And that’s a problem. It’s not even Linux-specific. I went to school with “smart” computer science students who don’t even understand file extensions or what a shortcut conceptually is.
What I’m getting at, is there needs to be some kind of balance, or people will just gradually become more useless.
Back in my much older days, people used newsgroups/email/ and before that, magazines to work out how to use windows.
You guys that grew up with the windows’ dominance, forget all you actually had to learn. You think of windows like riding a bike. Not because of windows design. But because you have been doing it all your life and learned the stuff when you were freshly minded and quick to learn.
I’m not opposed to AI. Although atm it can get shit wrong more often then other sources so care is required.
But please stop thinking your need to learn is a Linux issue. Rather than a complex system issue. .
You didn’t used to have to say “homemade ranch dressing,” that’s the only kind there was.
My first computer was an Atari 520ST with GEM operating system. Are you older than that?
It’s all about support, and enough people not wanting to put up with being annoyed. Windows has the bulk, the sheer hulking size of userbase, that there are myrid tools to help you do almost anything. You don’t need to search manuals, the answers are easy to find.
Not so Linux. Sometimes the problem is my Ubuntu, or maybe my hardware, or maybe the Cinnamon desktop, the wrong kernel (I didn’t realize I shouldn’t update to the most recent kernel…That I should wait and only use the kernel that Linux mint was using.)
So yeah, it’s not just “complex system” problems, it’s federation complex system problems.
Counterpoint, back before the internet started becoming full of AI slop, it was easy to find those a solutions by searching.