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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M
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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M
@Prisoner1972 The person in question just likes to go around and have temper tantrums on all of my posts.
Prisoner1972 · 51-55, MVIP
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow gonna block that pos.
Prisoner1972 · 51-55, MVIP
@Prisoner1972 ... and DONE!
FrozenWasteland · 61-69, M
I use Linux for software development, but I'm not convinced that it's the best OS for general usage for the casual user. And this is coming from a guy who pretty much despises Windows and knows nothing about iOS. Linux takes a good deal of commitment to get comfortable with using at any sort of deep level. It's quirky in places and, honestly, good help is hard to find. It's easy enough to use at a "basic" sort of level, but once you get beyond that, there is a big learning curve.
I think Ubuntu is a great choice for a Linus distro. It is well-maintained, stable and pretty easy to keep current. Like you say, it's virus resistant -- but stay cautious -- nothing is foolproof.
My best suggestion for learning to do things from a terminal window is to use internet resources to try to find stuff at your level. Stack Exchange is a great place to read -- and at least some of it probably isn't too deep for a beginner to learn from -- but I wouldn't recommend asking questions there unless you have a pretty thick skin. Much of the experienced Linux community isn't overly friendly to beginners -- they expect you to learn on your own. I'm sure there are a number of good learning resources, but it's been way too long since I've looked.
If there are a couple of specific commands you want to learn more about, drop me a message and I'll dig up a resource or two.
Good luck on your journey...
I think Ubuntu is a great choice for a Linus distro. It is well-maintained, stable and pretty easy to keep current. Like you say, it's virus resistant -- but stay cautious -- nothing is foolproof.
My best suggestion for learning to do things from a terminal window is to use internet resources to try to find stuff at your level. Stack Exchange is a great place to read -- and at least some of it probably isn't too deep for a beginner to learn from -- but I wouldn't recommend asking questions there unless you have a pretty thick skin. Much of the experienced Linux community isn't overly friendly to beginners -- they expect you to learn on your own. I'm sure there are a number of good learning resources, but it's been way too long since I've looked.
If there are a couple of specific commands you want to learn more about, drop me a message and I'll dig up a resource or two.
Good luck on your journey...
Prisoner1972 · 51-55, MVIP
Back in 2000 I got a copy of Caldera Linux and I found it absolutely useless. That was the days of dial-up internet. I dual booted a computer and set two IDE drives on the same connection to master. Somehow it fried both hard drives. So for the longest time I was scared to mess around with linux. In 2009 I was having problems with Windows getting worms and pop ups and paying ridiculous amounts of money to remove the viruses. I worked at a VoiceOverIP company at the time. So there was a few computer geeks around there that I ran into on a daily basis. One of them told me about Ubuntu. So I had a little bit of moral support in uploading it. A couple years ago my woman gave me her old laptop riddled with viruses. I added Ubuntu. And it's useful again. I stick with Ubuntu because it's stabler than windows. And harder to get a virus in Linux, from what I heard.
Ultimately I want to get away from Google Drive. And keeping important stuff on thumb drives, similar to how we used to keep floppy disks back in the days. For security reasons. And I'm editing a piece of FanFiction I poorly wrote a few years ago. And I don't want somebody taking it. Because it's fanfiction and I have no legal recourse.
I don't know enough about Linux commands to work from terminal prompt. Any recommendations for books on Linux anybody can give to familiarize me with some basic commands and proper syntax? Thanks!
Ultimately I want to get away from Google Drive. And keeping important stuff on thumb drives, similar to how we used to keep floppy disks back in the days. For security reasons. And I'm editing a piece of FanFiction I poorly wrote a few years ago. And I don't want somebody taking it. Because it's fanfiction and I have no legal recourse.
I don't know enough about Linux commands to work from terminal prompt. Any recommendations for books on Linux anybody can give to familiarize me with some basic commands and proper syntax? Thanks!
eventtemple123 · 22-25, M
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
Elessar · 26-30, M
ClearLinux or Alpine on my servers. I have KDE Neon in a VM, but I wouldn't use it as my daily driver
froggtongue · M
I would like to get a second machine to play around with a different OS and such.
Been using Manjaro ever since the Antergos project ended, which I guess was a few years ago now.
Was using vanilla Arch before that, and Ubuntu before that, from Hardy Heron onward into the Unity era
I still try to make whatever desktop environment or window manager I may be using look as much like the etstwhile Unity 7 desktop environment too ... currently back to using GNOME Shell, but have also used Plasma 5 and 4, and Openbox with Polybar and tint2.
I don't miss GNOME 2.x and never could make myself be content with Maté, Xfce, LXDE/LXqt, or Cinnamon (though I still do use the Nemo file manager with Thunar's bulk renaming utility, rather than Nautilus/Files). I like Dolphin a lot, but when I'm using GNOME, I don't want to install all of KDE just for a file manager (Dolphin also seemed to be lagging behind on Qt4 even in Plasma 5). I like Plasma a lot, but some of the Plasmoids just are not a one-to-one replacement for certain GNOME Shell extensions (e.g., the same clean system monitor applet style that's been around since GNOME 2.x) ... on the other hand, Active Window Control did give me a global menu more like Unity, which I still can't replicate in GNOME.
Never was interested in any rpm-based distro (but I used RedHat in a class once)
When DigitalOcean first started and still offered Arch droplets, I maintained a LEMP app in one for several years without any issue, in spite of Arch being a theoretically scary rolling release distro)
I tend to use the official Python image in Docker, which seems to be Debian-based, otherwise Alpine
I wasn't content with BSD variants for a desktop OS either, and making a Hacktinosh out of a ThinkPad (using an iATKOS iso) was titillating but not something I was going to rely on.
Was using vanilla Arch before that, and Ubuntu before that, from Hardy Heron onward into the Unity era
I still try to make whatever desktop environment or window manager I may be using look as much like the etstwhile Unity 7 desktop environment too ... currently back to using GNOME Shell, but have also used Plasma 5 and 4, and Openbox with Polybar and tint2.
I don't miss GNOME 2.x and never could make myself be content with Maté, Xfce, LXDE/LXqt, or Cinnamon (though I still do use the Nemo file manager with Thunar's bulk renaming utility, rather than Nautilus/Files). I like Dolphin a lot, but when I'm using GNOME, I don't want to install all of KDE just for a file manager (Dolphin also seemed to be lagging behind on Qt4 even in Plasma 5). I like Plasma a lot, but some of the Plasmoids just are not a one-to-one replacement for certain GNOME Shell extensions (e.g., the same clean system monitor applet style that's been around since GNOME 2.x) ... on the other hand, Active Window Control did give me a global menu more like Unity, which I still can't replicate in GNOME.
Never was interested in any rpm-based distro (but I used RedHat in a class once)
When DigitalOcean first started and still offered Arch droplets, I maintained a LEMP app in one for several years without any issue, in spite of Arch being a theoretically scary rolling release distro)
I tend to use the official Python image in Docker, which seems to be Debian-based, otherwise Alpine
I wasn't content with BSD variants for a desktop OS either, and making a Hacktinosh out of a ThinkPad (using an iATKOS iso) was titillating but not something I was going to rely on.