Teaching a friend Linux
Teaching a friend Linux
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In my opinion some tasks are better from the terminal some tasks are better from the GUI
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If you figure out how to do something in the terminal, you've got an 80% chance of that technique still working in a decade. If you learn how to do it in the GUI, your chances in a decade are more like 10%.
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Agreed. I tried to avoid using virt-manager for my vm’s.. I get that it is more powerful from terminal, but man is it a lot of information to learn how to communicate.
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Debian: "That's the neat thing: you don't"
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Simple, go into your apps and look for the one marked terminal. Open that then do all the stuff I just said.
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When someone asks me help with Git
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"well there's a program for it but, it's super buggy, just use the command line"
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Alternatively: "well there's a program for it, but it has a million dependencies and hasn't been updated in 10 years, just use the command line"
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i've never used linux, idk how to place an operating system on my operating system having computer, and i read that linux is very complicated, so i never tried, and i don't see why i should. change my mind
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Honestly, if you:
- don't care about data getting collected on an os you paid for
- don't care about getting ads on an os you paid for
- don't care about performance and have a fast computer
- (*) can't bother re-leaning how to do some things
- (*) can't bother facing and debugging some problems that you might encounter
- (*) don't care about being able to do things faster, at the cost of knowing exactly where to find things the moment you start using the system
- don't care about being able to customize any part of the system however you want
then you might want to stay on Windows.
(*) this depends on which distribution you choose. some are very similar to windows and beginner friendly.
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