What is your operating system on your computer?

@Persephonee I did find a way to install windows without having to log in to a MS account which gave me some independence, but Fedora lets me do all I need without having to use terminal that often.

@Maturebate I've noticed with Linux Mint, you can do things in the terminal, and you can do those same things in the GUI. Like making a program executable. I like having the knowledge of being able to do it both ways, but will typically do tasks with the GUI over terminal.

@twiigss Much more importantly

(a) one doesn't ever really need to use the terminal unless one wants to and
(b) if one does, there is a huge community of people who have already suggested the appropriate commands you might want for a particular task just a quick internet search away.

Because I never remotely grew up up in any faintly nerdy/really-into-computers household, I just assumed Linux (Mint anyway) was just for people who love computers and love making live hard for themselves.

It is different, but I reckon it's actually far easier - and more configurable - than Windows to use. (To say nothing of the OS not spying on you)

@Confined Yeah you're definitely not wrong there!! I had tried Mint 19 before when I had Windows 7, but the experience wasn't so great, fast forward to Mint 22.2 and it's been nothing but a smooth ride for me.

@whowasthatmaskedman Yeah I have a laptop I bought from walmart many years ago, and that still has Windows 7 Home Premium on it. Thought about changing it over to Linux and then thought well I'll keep it around just in case I need it for something, but so far I haven't needed it for anything regarding a need to get something from Windows or whatever or thought about anything I'd need to test etc.

@whowasthatmaskedman Zorin 18 I'm not sure about yet. But Zorin 16 I like the best out of Zorin flavors

Sometimes with newer machines you have to flash the boards with boot from USB support.

It's a new tricky thing that makers started doing to make you buy a new machine

Or upgrade their OS

Then you should be safe then

@Souls well and you can buy keyboards separate. They're all USB these days

@twiigss and I'm so silly OMG, you said MacBook, that's a laptop, laptops are a monitor and keyboard. Gotcha gotcha.

Only took me 9h after my last post to realize that 😅.

Yeah I would think most keyboards and laptop keyboards would be backlit. It certainly would be a nice feature to have.

@Musicman Yeah my friend is on Windows 11. My computer can't even run it!

@twiigss My old computer couldn't either. It was 10 years old so we got a new one last year on a Black Friday special.

@bookerdana yeah if you didn't grow up using DOS, commandline will be a lot tougher.

Fortunately when we got a computer, MS-DOS was the only OS at the time.

@twiigss no thats why i bought the mini

@Lilnonames but have no internet nor wifi yet,so its in the box

@Lilnonames ohhhhh

@TryingtoLava ohhhhh you're on Mac Lava? I've never used it before so I had to look it up 😅