Lainons with OCD.

Do you guys find it extremely hard to make any choice in your life? It can be anything at all, from a class I play in a video game, to something more serious and major like a job or carrier path. The same issue is this though, I think about it so much, non stop staying up till 2-3AM in the morning and it will ruin the fun out of ANYTHING!!! I obsess over.... My new obsession is with OS's for PC's I'm not gonna get into it but its driving me insane, windows 11 got released and I fuarrrking hated how much spy soykaf and just the new look and all of it is so ugly to me. So I decided to practice Linux, dual boot and now i'm obessing over what "choice" to pick. Like i can just have both i need to have ONE!!!!!!!!! and thats my issue with everything i cant ever settle on one thing.

I deal with this by coming up with objective criteria, for Linux I decided I want a distro that doesn't have systemd, doesn't break frequently, is simple enough to install that I don't have to troubleshoot anything or reference outside materials, isn't associated with RHEL, SUSE, or Canonical, and supports all of my hardware. This essentially left me with only one choice (Void Linux). Your criteria may be different, but if you come up with things you need, want, and don't want, you can make the decisions much easier for yourself.

>>49985 I might just write it down on a piece of paper or something, things Linux can do that I want it to do vs the things it can't do for me that I'll need to hop onto my windows boot instead of Linux. It's more just the fact I worry about how my work flow will be effected, or about how sometimes I gotta leave calls with friends to switch to another boot will annoy my friends. What felt like a good idea at first is starting to feel like speed bumps in my work flow cause I need to shut down the entire PC, then reboot it into the windows boot.

>>49987 What can't you do on Linux? Video games are the only thing I can think of that aren't all supported on Linux at this point. If it's something not graphically intensive, you can try running a Windows VM so you don't have to reboot. I used to dual boot but since I quit video games I have never booted Windows.

>>50016 There are a few games with features that just don't work on Linux, I bought VR a while back to dick around with my friends and the fact that VR just doesn't really work on Linux is annoying cause VR is expensive you know? Any games with "EasyAntiCheat" don't work either. Music production isn't good for Linux cause no programs of VSTS that I use work on Linux without a lot of tinkering and even then they still break. Video editing, kdenlive will never be my thing. I honestly am thinking of not even using Linux, not until my OCD dies down a little bit cause its been the source of my obsessions, I'd boot back and forth from linux to windows an ungodly amount of times.... It's driving me insane and killing any fun I had with PC's.

yes, my entire life is just one long string of indecision/being too paralyzed to take a step. i think much of it has to do with perfectionism; i'm afraid of not doing everything perfectly and so i never start. it's hell but lately i've been practicing not caring. i'm 28 and far behind many people my age and stuff but i've realized my life isn't going to be like theirs and that it will have to move at its own pace. i have accepted this pretty well and all but every once in a while i get a little down on comparing myself to others. i should at least have a nice girlfriend or something, i'm a good looking guy, but i live on disability and don't leave or have any obligations other than neet'ing. anyway one thing i've started doing is just trusting my instincts and intuition. i'm not always going to do everything right, but neither did my ancestors, and they've survived millions of years of evolutionary pressure. if i just follow my instincts and be more willing to throw myself head first into situations and such i should be able to hopefully make some progress. ocd is hell, nobody really realizes it though because they're so used to the meme "color-coordinating" joke definition.

>>50034 I'm glad someone can agree with me, I honestly should just go with my instincts a bit more but its really hard. This situation is just extra soykafty cause its just, its gonna effect my creative / casual work flow. the extra version would be get TWO pc's for separate OC's and have them for their own things rather then needing to boot them back and forth I can just have two monitors for other PC's. but that seems really pointless and a waste of money.

Can relate. I've also been meaning to hop to Linux, and for all the same reasons as well. However, I've been staving it off for months now. Compatibility issues with printers and Microsoft Office are my main concern, but poor or flat-out non-existent support for a number of other applications and video games, native or not, new or old, is also difficult to ignore. Dualbooting seems to be the best solution, but it would consume time and would require me to manage two separate systems, as I would want to keep the two completely apart. Thinking about it though, the reason I want to use Linux is so I wouldn't have to use Windows 10. I am currently using a pirated 32-bit Windows 7 to match my older hardware. I have since built a newer PC, but it's collecting dust. Having no means to safely get a copy of Windows 7 I could use to upgrade the system to 64-bit and install on my new computer while preserving all of the data and the hard drive sure is sad.

>>50047 >ms office what for? Everyone takes pdfs. Use libre/open office or latex if you wanna go hard on math and convert before sending out.

>>50047 Printer support has been good in my experience, HP for instance support all of theirs natively. Hardware support on Linux is way better than people make it out to be, I'd go so far as to say it does the whole plug 'n' play thing better than Windows often does. If you research a device before buying its not hard to find out if it works or not, you'd be surprised how many older devices only work on Linux these days.

That's a symptom of something and an opportunity to fix it. Meditate no drugs about it and/or go to a psychologist for some weeks.

>>50050 >meditate no drugs I meant to write "meditate on drugs", as in under the influence. But maybe my typos give better advice than myself.

>>50048 School and job requirements, mostly. It's necessary that I'm able to maintain proper text formatting and ensure compatibility with MS Office since people around me all use it and rely on its functionality. Nothing too exceptional though, Libre and OpenOffice all include similar features needed for my use case, it's that my clients and professors can't be bothered. >>50049 Depends. I checked if my printer was compatible, it is, but you still need to jump through hoops to get it to work consistently.

>>50052 If you can get it to work consistently then that would make it set and forget right (especially on more laid back distros like Debian)? I've seen people suggest that installing Microsoft fonts on Linux can help with compatibility, might be worth a try.

>>50047 I have to agree with you Lainon I think the idea of needing to manage two systems is simply tiresome, I did it for about two weeks and it wore down on me fast. Until Linux can replace 90% of what I do I don't think I'll ever use it as a daily driver, I'd like to think its getting better but there is still such a far way to go. Maybe I'll just fuarrrk around with Linux on a cheap laptop, but there is no way it can replace my gaming / music / art work station hybrid of a machine I have right now, this PC has been upgraded and managed for 6 years. Linux can't replace it, my time with Linux has been nothing but a buggy, stressful soul sucking mess and if I didn't have the amount of free time I have now I would have dropped it the first few days I started.

When I started linux I also was distro hoping like a mf, In one week I tried 5 different linux distros and it was the same for like 2 months. Peace came into mind when I tried the more "elitist" distro, then I was able to just relax and choose the one that i really felt comftarble with. Maybe its not the same in your life, but for me I think that it was when I reached the hardest I was able to take it easy.

>>50034 >i'm afraid of not doing everything perfectly and so i never start. This is so on spot. I can provide an example, based on myself. So, I've got loads of software project ideas, which I'd like to share eventually. But like 90% of them stays private, and I have no motivation to finish, improve, and publish them. Why? Well, I'm a very soykafty programmer. And no matter how polished the end result will be (including documentation, on which I spend way too much time), it just takes a brief look into the commit history and the source code, to know who one's dealing with - an incompetent, fuarrrking imbecile, with pathetic development practices. Yep. That's the reason. I'm afraid of not doing that correctly, let alone perfectly, and ending up embarrassing myself in the eyes of anyone who can program. This is also the reason I'm hesitant to make proper use of git. Trying hard at maintaining a good git commit log and history, would be a fuarrrking charade with a comical result, if one considers how terrible code I'm producing. Eh, fuarrrk it and fuarrrk me.