Getting Started with Linux

roger_smith · 06-18-2015, 03:24 AM

(06-17-2015, 08:47 PM)Tirus Wrote: Let me address something to all the new Linux users on this forum:

Don't use a Linux distribution just because it's recommended to you by someone. Google the pros and the cons of the distribution and see if it's the cons you're willing to work with and the pros over power the cons in the distribution at hand.

this is decent advise I suppose. I guess I don't see how that's entirely relevant to my post here though

Nightlife · 08-17-2015, 02:47 PM

Great tutorial, however i hate MINT! something about it makes me uneasy like it;s an unreliably OS. yet i like ubuntu? I guess i'm just retarded.

Also Rodger you seem to know alot about Linux based distro's could you help me decide between xubuntu or unbuntu MATE.

I like how MATE runs of GNOME. also as i'm UK it's fun to say "I run ubuntu m8."

but xubuntu looks so clean! :o

Pirate · 10-14-2015, 10:12 PM

Windows is for sure better than any shit Apple OS. I still like Windows, but Linux is for sure the better choice

Jacket · 11-19-2015, 09:15 AM

What version of Linux allows you to do the most? I am very new to Linux but would rather not get to know a particular version then have to switch later on since it can't do what I'm trying to do.

roger_smith · 11-19-2015, 04:44 PM

(11-19-2015, 09:15 AM)Distant Wrote: What version of Linux allows you to do the most? I am very new to Linux but would rather not get to know a particular version then have to switch later on since it can't do what I'm trying to do.

There isn't really a distro that "does more" than another, Linux is fairly dynamic.

Regardless, if you're just starting out you need to learn some foundation linux skills and any distro will let you do that.

regards

Jacket · 11-19-2015, 04:55 PM

(11-19-2015, 04:44 PM)roger_smith Wrote: There isn't really a distro that "does more" than another, Linux is fairly dynamic.

Regardless, if you're just starting out you need to learn some foundation linux skills and any distro will let you do that.

regards

Been like this for around two hours now. Should it usually take this long? Booted it up live in a VM and installing it to an external hard drive.

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roger_smith · 11-19-2015, 05:26 PM

(11-19-2015, 04:55 PM)Distant Wrote: Been like this for around two hours now. Should it usually take this long? Booted it up live in a VM and installing it to an external hard drive.

seems like an awfully long time to me.

If you're brand new to linux, Kali would not be my first recommendation.

Jacket · 11-19-2015, 05:28 PM

(11-19-2015, 05:26 PM)roger_smith Wrote: seems like an awfully long time to me.

If you're brand new to linux, Kali would not be my first recommendation.

I might just switch then. Which beginner-friendly distro would you recommend that is the most customizable?

Dismas · 11-19-2015, 05:39 PM

Why Mint specifically?

Xnite · 11-20-2015, 11:48 PM

It's pretty good guide man but people who are beginner to Linux wouldn't know about ssh and most of the other thing that can do through ssh.

Getting Started with Linux
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