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.
Welcome! Don’t listen to anyone trying to shame you for your distro choice. The most important is that you didn’t choose windows.
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
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.
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 agree that’s why I don’t listen to all the hater’s who say my distro Choice of Android Tv is bad.
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.tldr or teeldeer is the short manual. fwiw
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:
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?
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!
You picked some really good books to get started with! Lot of online help these days!
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.
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
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)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.
Welcome to the dark side! We got cookies
ugh r u rly usin [distro i dont use] just go back to micro$haft luser
Welcome! I have been using Mint many years now its a gold standard distro you made a solid choice.
I’m about to repartition and reinstall everything. I’m very fucking tempted to drop this dual boot nonsense now that I have a good idea of what little I’d be losing.
I screwed up my dual boot a year ago and it was happiest mistake of my life. Forced me to learn linux, and now I feel like I live in the matrix with all my bright green terminals on i3.
I remember when I used green on black lol. Good times at uni. Nowadays I even use light mode in the daytime… I get too sleepy with dark mode in the daytime lol. Guess I’m getting old.
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You don’t need to reinstall. You could keep the old partition and format it and add it as a new volume while keeping the current installation.
If the windows volume is to the right of the Linux volume, you could also boot a live-usb and drop the windows partition and then extend the Linux partition then extend the Linux filesystem to cover all disk space. If it is to the left, you can do the same but you’d need to move the partition and reinstall the bootloader as well.
A backup would be mandatory If you don’t really know what you would be doing with the above, however. But if you do, it’s a lot easier and faster than to rebuild everything from scratch.
Hell yeah!! Welcome, fellow penguin. 🐧
