You have to remember that what you are basing your image of the common PC builder on, contains massive selection bias.
People who are just building their pcs silently, or who run into issues, but solve them themselves aren’t going to be posted.
That leaves the people willing to put forth the least effort outside of posts asking for opinions on builds (as well as completely reasonable people who are stuck).
I do think many people don’t really learn about everything that would be necessary, but thats largely one of the benefits of humanity; people not having to learn about everything.
I think people often ask a tech person they know for opinions, and sometimes that communication is muddied or that person doesn’t know as much as they profess, but I doubt that a sizeable portion of people are just completely yoloing.
However, anecdotally, I do know a few people that spend tons of time researching the absolute hell out of stuff before purchasing (because they want the best of everything) but skip some important details that creates a no build situation.
But Yes, I will concede there are silent people out there doing stuff you never hear about.
No, it was a common question on reddit PC building subs. Or why is my sata ssd slow now I have added an nvme.
Or buying a memory brand that isn’t compatible with the hardware.
Or in my friends case buying a GPU that he had to mount externally because it didn’t fit in the case.
People just order stuff and hope for the best it seems
You have to remember that what you are basing your image of the common PC builder on, contains massive selection bias.
People who are just building their pcs silently, or who run into issues, but solve them themselves aren’t going to be posted.
That leaves the people willing to put forth the least effort outside of posts asking for opinions on builds (as well as completely reasonable people who are stuck).
I do think many people don’t really learn about everything that would be necessary, but thats largely one of the benefits of humanity; people not having to learn about everything.
I think people often ask a tech person they know for opinions, and sometimes that communication is muddied or that person doesn’t know as much as they profess, but I doubt that a sizeable portion of people are just completely yoloing.
This is a good point.
However, anecdotally, I do know a few people that spend tons of time researching the absolute hell out of stuff before purchasing (because they want the best of everything) but skip some important details that creates a no build situation.
But Yes, I will concede there are silent people out there doing stuff you never hear about.