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    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.

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    [–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 116 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

    Welcome! Don’t listen to anyone trying to shame you for your distro choice. The most important is that you didn’t choose windows.

    [–] FindME@lemmy.myserv.one 58 points 2 weeks ago

    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!

    [–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    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.

    [–] acid_falcon@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

    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

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    [–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Just as long as it's not Red Star, that's even worse than windows.

    [–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    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…

    [–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

    I agree that’s why I don’t listen to all the hater’s who say my distro Choice of Android Tv is bad.

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    [–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 52 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    Quick tip: forgot how to use a command? Use man commandname to see a short manual page for that command.

    Forgot sudo on your command? !! refers to the previously typed command, so you can simply type sudo !! to fix it.

    [–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    If you don't know how to use man, just type in man man.

    [–] Marduk73@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    man man man gives the secrets to the universe

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    [–] Deckname@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 weeks ago

    oh wow, thank you for

    sudo !! 
    

    this is amazing :D

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    [–] hondaguy97386@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    "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.

    [–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
    [–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 14 points 2 weeks ago

    This instantly tripled my free space.

    [–] VubDapple@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
    [–] TunaCowboy@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Schotts provides a free 'internet edition' .pdf of TLCL, last updated 11/1/2024:

    https://www.linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

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    [–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    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.

    [–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Welcome in from the cold. We have blankets and coco.

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    [–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

    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.

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    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Be mindful that Linux changes faster than a lot of books. I would stick to online documentation.

    [–] TunaCowboy@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

    Schotts actually provides TLCL for free, and last updated it a month ago:

    https://www.linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

    Those books were published in 2019 and 2021. They'll still be mostly accurate a decade from now. Open-source developers usually try not to introduce breaking changes to mature software unless absolutely necessary.

    [–] pmc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Books will teach the essentials: my core UNIX knowledge comes from an SVR4 book I read in the late 2000s (a decade or more after it was relevant) and it's still applicable today

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    [–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

    Welcome! I have been using Mint many years now its a gold standard distro you made a solid choice.

    [–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago

    Hell yeah!! Welcome, fellow penguin. 🐧

    [–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    The Linux Command Line book opened up a lot to me. How Linux Works is very good, but the command line is so essential, and that book gives you some great starting knowledge like aliases and shell scripting.

    Especially aliases. Take note of aliases, when you start using aliases it can change your world once you realize how much you can accomplish with what essentially are one line programs you wrote for you own personal needs.

    Welcome beyond the pale, friend. You've made it to the other side. Only freedom awaits, should you have the determination to work for it.

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    [–] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

    Hey congrats, @A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world! 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!

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    [–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] Trail@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

    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.

    [–] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

    You picked some really good books to get started with! Lot of online help these days!

    [–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 2 weeks ago

    Welcome to the club! Mint is an excellent choice, especially from a beginner's perspective. Don't let that stop you from trying other things though if you get the temptation. Fedora and Arch are the two other 'families' I can think of to play with, though I've stuck with things in the Debian side of things myself.

    [–] Veneroso@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Congratulations! It's really fun to learn something new. Don't let anyone distro shame you.

    (Unless it's into installing Gentoo)

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    [–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Nice. I'm currently waiting on a "new" laptop, get off this old Core2 duo I'm typing on. Under $300 from a trusted ebay seller and I'll be in the right decade. Linux is awesome for using old hardware but my favorite part is the "free as in freedom" aspect.

    If you do run into windows mandatory stuff it's not all that hard to run virtual machines now. I've been using VMWare player but on my incoming machine I'm going to give QEMU-KVM a shot. Move away from proprietary VMWare and onto free as in freedom software.

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    [–] Affidavit@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] infinite_ass@leminal.space 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    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.

    [–] nafzib@feddit.online 10 points 2 weeks ago

    That Linux command line book is really, really good. I love how it actually explains the commands and why to use them instead of just being a copy of each commands help document or something.

    Congrats on ditching Windows!

    [–] kabi@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    If you want to mess with the command line, I recommend tldr. Anyone could do xkcd's tar challenge if they can run tldr tar first! (pretty sure it's in mint's apt repos)

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    [–] dtrain@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    What’s your initial impressions of the How Linux Works book?

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    [–] don@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

    ugh r u rly usin [distro i dont use] just go back to micro$haft luser

    [–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 9 points 2 weeks ago

    Congratulations! Enjoy the journey! You'll look back in a few years and wonder how you ever managed with a Windows set up while you slip into the comfy-ness of your customized system.

    [–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    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 /*)

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    [–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

    I am extremely excited for you. Welcome.

    [–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

    Anyone have tips for someone wanting to do the same but have two hurdles?

    1. Need multi-org account support for Teams due to multiple contracts across different orgs. At the moment I could run Windows in a VM for it but then notifications are rough. An option is running teams in multiple browser profiles / tabs but this is also not entirely ideal (6-7 profiles/tabs just for teams is rough). Any clever ideas welcome, or someone who may have experience with Matrix bridges to accommodate this somehow? Does that work for adhoc calls?

    2. Speedy remote desktop. Parcel seems to be the closest in speed to RDP thus far, but it doesn't consistently transmit shortcut keys which makes development difficult. Any other suggestions, gladly welcome.

    ~~3. (no longer an issue) if you've seen my past comments, I used to seek an alternative to Fancy Zones, but my fix for this was to just get rid of my ultrawide and go back to multiple monitors. So this is no longer needed.~~

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    [–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago

    Welcome to the dark side! We got cookies

    [–] WhosMansIsThis@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

    No starch press is my favorite. Welcome!

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