Hi guys, I recently installed Linux mint and like any other noob I had a lot of questions and problems right of the bat and I found that ChatGPT surprisingly gets most of them right on and I yet to see a totally wrong answer from it so yeah if you are on the fence about Linux give it a try but try to verify the answers you get it not gonna be 100% accurate.
As someone who spends a lot of time in linux communities that have new users. Please dont use chatGPT, it causes so many problems and almost all of its solutions are out of date. If you need help, arch wiki, distro fourms, lemmy, reddit, discord servers like All things linux are great places to get help.
So many of the issues I see from new people are because they tried to modify their system to fix and issue that didnt require them to touch anything. ChatGPT is way to quick to suggest using root to modify a config file using outdated information to a different problem.
OP, this is what Auth means by distro forums, for the distro you’re using:
Thanks I have already known about mint forum and archwiki and I think I asked about stuff here atleast afew time before and got pretty good insight from you guys (which I’m thankful for) but I can’t ask around every single simple problem I face with also I should have added that I don’t blindly follow anything ChatGPT or any AI spits out and you’re absolutely right some of solutions ChatGPT suggests are outdated (I did manual partitioning and it tried to convince me that I need a swap partition which I realized nobody is doing nowadays) but I should say many of not too complicated stuff it gets right too it’s just tool like everything else you should be aware of it’s shortcomings as well as advantages. Hope that made sense edit: typo
I’m not saying that you’re wrong, but I will say that more often than not I only found forum posts from 2014 when trying to deal with an issue. Not exactly fresh, either.
If you’re finding only posts from 2014 I’d almost bet my life that you are finding “solutions” to the wrong problem. But at least you can see that its a 2014 fourm post and make the decision to ignore it. With chatgpt you never know where its sourcing its info.
Yeah… Yesterday I faced this issue and luckily I begin to get better in understanding how my system, hardware and software works…
I tried to come up with a pihole docker compose config that would correctly map my local domain names with my own CA certificates. And somehow GPT-5 always used the v5 tags of pihole or responded with older compose logic with traefik.
I kinda worked it out with a mix of gpt promps and old-school search engine and while it does work how I imagined it, the chatGPT prompting was inaccurate and sometimes just plain wrong…
But it did help to get me in the right direction :).
If you ever get good reliable results from a chat bot, it’s because you could have found a primary source in under a minute of searching.
What is your reason for installing linux? The ethos is typically not aligned with using invasive programs like anything that comes from closedai
Valid point I personally don’t have a problem with proprietary stuff but If you do I totally respect that.
