I’ve also got the Linux Basics for Hackers book but it’s at home while I’m on vacation.
I’m just really happy rn yall :) this install took some work, SecureBoot kept getting in the way and I’m not the most savvy person so there was a lot of Googling and trial and error in the way of getting here.
ugh r u rly usin [distro i dont use] just go back to micro$haft luser
Welcome! Don’t listen to anyone trying to shame you for your distro choice. The most important is that you didn’t choose windows.
No, no! Listen to the shamers! Change your distro eight times over the first month as you listen to them whine, and eventually return to the first one you chose, full of wisdom of why those other distros suck so you can tell the noobs who choose one of them first instead of your glorious choice!
Thanks! I plan to experiment with others, but I wanted a nice smooth transition for my wife and I both, so Mint seemed like a great starting point.
Mint is rad. I currently use barebones Debian testing with a bunch of customized stuff, but I always keep a bootable Mint flash drive on my keychain. It’s a very solid choice
My boyfriend wanted Linux on his laptop and he’s not tech savvy at all. I installed Mint for him and he’s very happy with it, no complaints. It’s a very good choice.
I used Mint for almost its entire existence so far, but recently I’ve started main driving immutables, and gotta say the experience is even more user friendly. That’s my current experimentation stage but, so far, it doesn’t feel experimental at all, it just works out the box, no issues.
Just as long as it’s not Red Star, that’s even worse than windows.
If you have something to hide from The Glorious and Omnipotent Kim Jong Un, our beloved leader, you do not deserve to be a human. All hail our Dear Leader.
M’comrade…
I agree that’s why I don’t listen to all the hater’s who say my distro Choice of Android Tv is bad.
Your distro of choice is a good distro unless you chose anything other than TempleOS
Thank God, I was afraid you would shame my Hannah Montana Linux
I’m not even gonna lie, I considered it
You’ll probably be making lots of changes to your computer over the next couple of weeks, so it’s a good idea to use TimeShift to make system snapshots. (It works like System Restore in Windows). It can even rescue an unbootable system. Just boot from your Linux Live CD / flash drive and you can run TimeShift from that.
Whoah… wish I knew about this when I was setting up my raspberry pi. Got a brand new computer on the way (well half of it is here already) so this might come in handy… thanks!
FYI, you can usually automate creating timeshifts whenever you add packages or update your system. I did that for mine, so that I don’t have to remember to do it.
I highly recommend taking the time to really look into btrfs for anyone interested in utilizing timeshift. There is no going back.
the only downside to btrfs, is the good natured arguments you’ll get into online over how to pronounce it.
Garuda Linux does this by default.
Or switch to NixOS 😉
Quick tip: forgot how to use a command? Use
man commandnameto see a short manual page for that command.Forgot sudo on your command?
!!refers to the previously typed command, so you can simply typesudo !!to fix it.If you don’t know how to use man, just type in
man man.man man man gives the secrets to the universe
43
42 :)
Yeah, I was sleepy 😂😂
What I think about every time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Man
(Six Demon Bag is an amazing album btw)
oh wow, thank you for
sudo !!this is amazing :D
I keep forgetting that one! Thanks! I always use up arrow and then waste time getting the cursor back with maybe the home key or ctrl+ left-arrow LOL
tldr or teeldeer is the short manual. fwiw
wtfgives the summary, and works for acronyms too.
Also, don’t forget manuals have pages lol. I forget how many there are. 99% of the time you just need page 1.
I love how under most Linux threads there is war and anarchie and many know-it-all, but under this? A New Penguin? Lets Embrace him in the best Community there is.
Nice Work Man
Hey congrats, @[email protected]! By getting through that hurdle you most certainly are that savvy of a person. Enjoy the after success glow and welcome to the hacker universe.
Trial and error is 90% of life! Thats how you get shit done!
you most certainly are that savvy of a person
There are millions of us.
Glad to hear OP has the spare time to make it “it just works”
😂
Hey everyone that gets over that hurdle implies that its doable and that it might be getting easier.
Remember that use to be just the first hurdle of many. It sounds like kobold is enjoying the desktop already and there use to be another 7 or 8 major hurdles. Audio, video, x11, network, Bluetooth, usb.
Seems like all those were just breezed on past!
Yeah honestly once I got past my BIOS problems everything else has been a breeze. Driver install and updates all went flawlessly. I played around with Linux a tiny bit in decades past (usually just to fix something and get back to Windows), so I was a little concerned about it at first, but, as they say… shit just works 🤷♂️
That’s very kind of you to say, thanks :)
Im proud you took the plunge! Feel free to reach out if you get stuck on anything. Im a principal engineer whose done work all over the tech stack including the linux kernel and wrote my own shell. (Think gnome/kde user interfaces.) And these days im playing with biochemistry:)
Congratulations! It’s really fun to learn something new. Don’t let anyone distro shame you.
(Unless it’s into installing Gentoo)
Does anyone distro shame Mint? The only distro-shaming I’ve seen is against Ubuntu, and that’s because of Canonical’s repeated attempts to turn Linux into Windows and push their own proprietary bullshit.
I like Mint quite a bit myself. Mint Cinnamon is my preferred “just put Linux on it” distro.
My comment was mostly tongue in cheek :-p
Welcome in from the cold. We have blankets and coco.
sed -i -e ‘s/coco/brew/g’ $some_guy_post
Nah, I drank all of that. I’m having a great time. You get the coco.
Schotts provides a free ‘internet edition’ .pdf of TLCL, last updated 11/1/2024:
Nice!
Tangentially related: So is Automate The Boring Stuff With Python!
Hey thanks
That’s pretty awesome, thanks!
The newest version there is 6th edition and has 90 more pages that he latest print copy of 2nd edition. Anyone know if there’s a plan to start printing a copy that’s less than 10 years old?
Honestly, I consider myself moderately tech savvy. But I also had issues with SecureBoot when installing Linux. It really doesn’t help when every single BIOS has different settings and they all want to make everything as poorly worded and unintuitive as humanly possible.
“Oh, you want an on/off toggle for SecureBoot? Sorry, no. Let’s just fuck with you until you either brick your motherboard or somehow manage to install Linux.”
My congratulations! You’ve managed to get past the most difficult hurdle.
To be fair, writing technical documentation for this shit is possibly the most unpleasant job in the world. After 5 minutes I desperately want to fuck off and get high.
“I’m just really happy rn yall” - be careful with that rn command if you’re anywhere near Arch, wouldn’t want all your happy uninstalled! Seriously though, good for you! Welcome to freedom.
sudo right now -rf /
This instantly tripled my free space.
Worth reading
If you want to mess with the command line, I recommend tldr. Anyone could do xkcd’s tar challenge if they can run
tldr tarfirst! (pretty sure it’s in mint’s apt repos)
tar --help
not sure if arguing against tldr, or just trying to defuse a bomb
Successfully defusing a bomb!
…or was it
-h👀(tldr is fire btw)
I reccomend trying TUI utilities to get better at Linux for example: btop, fastfetch, ranger, vim, and apt (also ignore anyone who tells you to sudo rm -rf /*)
I just learned about btop and nvim, I’ll check those out :) thanks
Heres some other cool utilities: https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis
Mind you though, it’s not a requirement
CLI is love. CLI is life.
Good job, welcome to the free world of tech. Installing is often the hardest part.
Next lesson: forget about downloading installer from the browser, check out the software center or learn package manager commands, that’s the first new thing about Linux.
