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    • Sometimes “experts” suck. I’ve had 2 projects done to my house that need to be re-done, they were so bad. I would have been better off investing some time into learning to do it myself, which I now have to do anyway.
    • Having experts do my camper van conversion would be ridiculously expensive. Same for buying pre-made things. There is a lot to learn about floor, insulation, wiring, charging, cabinetry, water, storage, etc. But learning that is one reason I’m doing it myself. Mistakes still don’t add up to even one piece that pre-fab or shop expert would charge. For example, a galley is about $1200 (sink, fridge cabinet). I built my own for ~$200 and got most of it done in one day.
    • There are some experts I will trust. I trust one bike shop to do my shock service each year because frankly it’s a messy hassle for me to do it myself, and If I screw up, I buy a new $1000 fork. If they screw up, they buy it.




  • BoofStroke@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.mlThe Linux experice
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    Well, that’s an example of something that actually takes some knowledge to run. Sonarr is not a native linux app, and is really meant to be run on a server by somebody who already knows what they are doing with it. Then there’s the issues with snap itself. On my plex server I manually installed sonarr and its dependencies and made my own systemd init file. Once running, updating through the webui seems to work ok, but I tend to use ansible to maintain everything.


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    How are you trying to install things? Use the graphical package manager or apt. Don’t just try to download things from wherever.

    Also, maybe try Linux Mint (Cinnamon Edition) instead of Ubuntu. Things there “just work”, and the UI is more similar to what you are used to with windows.