I use Manjaro Linux with the Cinnamon desktop and sometimes run into system-level issues, but I have no idea how to properly debug them. It doesn’t feel as straightforward as debugging a normal program. What’s the best way or resource to learn system debugging on Linux?
There’s an entire step between trying to figure it out yourself and resorting to an LLM which is probably likely to tell you to shove cheese into the USB ports. Regular web searching. Forum and social media posts. The distro’s wiki itself or other such resources. You know, the stuff the AI originally sucked up, mashed together, mixed around, and spat back out.
right that’s why I said worse comes to worse and to take it with a grain of salt. For very simple issues it’s fine, beyond that it’s a coin toss. It’s a fine rubber duck. Like if I missed something obvious but I’m just not seeing it then it might point that out for me. Like for example I recently reinstalled my OS and I couldn’t get wireguad to work so as a last ditch effort I plugged it into Claude and it told me that I had forgotten to replace a privatekey on one of the peers. I had just completely missed it.