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I’ve been a Linux user for 10 years, and even I find this article intimidating.
Getting into Linux isn’t that hard! You download it, put it on a USB drive to try it out, and mess around with it. If you like what you see you install it. If you come across any errors (like drivers or audio or such) you just google it.
Coping with Windows, auto updates and blue screens is far harder than Linux.
Thank you for this.
or you can just buy a Windows computer and turn it on.
Until Linux geeks figure that out, they will never take over the computer world.
its only been several decades- i am sure they will be coming around any day soon. Maybe in the next ‘distro’
Revived a Lenovo Thinkpad just this weekend my daughter was at odds with, with Linux.
I burned the bootable DVD and threw it and in 5 minutes I have a very servicable laptop/tablet with touch screen...yadda, yadda, yadda.........
I am prety much a computer expert now.
WINDOW 10 SUCKS !!!
I’m saving up for a high-end gaming computer.
I want an operating system that allows me to access the internet for online play and game updates.
I don’t want Windows or Chrome.
I’ll do all my surfing, commenting and emailing on another computer.
I want a clean, lean and mean gaming machine without any extraneous crap on it.
Is Linux what I’m looking for?
For various reasons, I regularly use about a dozen, or so, PCs. For home use, I buy off lease Dell units, usually for $150, or less, and then pitch the most obsolete one in the pile. My most used software item is MS Excel. The Open Office Spreadsheet version simply doesn’t compete with Excel. It can’t handle any of the graphing or data processing things I do regularly. Excel ‘97 usually does, though I mostly use more recent versions. None of the alternatives that I’m aware of will support even that. So it’s Windows for me.
Ain't it the truth.
Thanks to ShadowAce for the ping!!
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Can someone suggest a good, modern, easy to understand book that would hold your hand and take you step-by-step through the process described in the above article? First installing it on a bootable jump drive and then on your computer?
Covering where to get the open-source code, how to set up security, best browsers, office tools, video tools, and so on? Really interested in trying this.
Thanks
BKMK
I use Fedora at home, support wife’s laptop with ubuntu and have 2 ubuntu boxen at work (running Gnome shell not unity).
So for me it’s linux all day every day.
But I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - it ain’t as easy as people would have you believe. I see the world through my wife’s eyes as she tries to grok ubuntu even after being on it for about a year. She still has trouble really “getting it”. And she absolutely refuses to have anything to do with the command line. She does “get” libreoffice, browsing, and running windoze inside of VirtualBox. That is - unless something unexpected happens or she needs to do something a bit out of the ordinary. She really doesn’t understand the File Manager (i.e. Nautilus). Just doesn’t get it. So if you’re a linux junkie (like me) sure it’s easy. In fact it’s easier than windoze. But if you’re not - it’s not.
Finally the idea of “trying it out” from a thumb drive - this has never made any sense to me. People say they do that but I think what they really do is get the windowing interface working, open a program or two and call it done. That’s not “living with” a system. In fact it’s the farthest thing from it.
I’m not trying to pee on anyone’s cornflakes, really I’m not, but I do think a reality check adds value.