A Beginners Guide to Linux
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-Quietlyawesome94
Quietlyawesome94 said:What about Sausage Head's tutorial on Google?
is there a how to ride a bike tutorial?Vulpes Abnocto said:All tutorials will be assessed by the staff in the coming weeks.
But by my reckoning, neither this nor the How to Google tutorial qualify for the competition.
LOL +1mercluke said:is there a how to ride a bike tutorial?Vulpes Abnocto said:All tutorials will be assessed by the staff in the coming weeks.
But by my reckoning, neither this nor the How to Google tutorial qualify for the competition.
You could just make it for the sake of helping out the community.Quietlyawesome94 said:What about Sausage Head's Tutorial on Google? (EDIT: Well I looked at the thread.... I guess I just wasted 3 hours of my life... Costello and others say that PC doesn't count.
KingdomBlade said:You could just make it for the sake of helping out the community.Quietlyawesome94 said:What about Sausage Head's Tutorial on Google? (EDIT: Well I looked at the thread.... I guess I just wasted 3 hours of my life... Costello and others say that PC doesn't count.
Nathan Drake said:KingdomBlade said:You could just make it for the sake of helping out the community.Quietlyawesome94 said:What about Sausage Head's Tutorial on Google? (EDIT: Well I looked at the thread.... I guess I just wasted 3 hours of my life... Costello and others say that PC doesn't count.
And not win prizes for it? What blasphemy!
Go ahead and keep improving this tutorial with some formatting and such though, and it's sure to help somebody.
Again, it's extremely ignorant to imply that the only thing you've used would be the best choice (seeing as Mint is closely based on Ubuntu). It's getting increasingly common for Ubuntu users to do so, something that's really sad to see for anyone who has used more than one Linux distro (even if they prefer Ubuntu in the end). It's like playing one single video game and then saying that it is the best video game in existence and that no one should look any further than this one video game. Please don't do it.Quietlyawesome94 said:Why should I use Linux?Starting with a section for this was a very good idea. As for the reasons you provide...
But if you're just starting out with Linux. Go for Ubuntu. Its good and simple!Quietlyawesome94 said:The fact that Linux doesn't have Viruses.
This is a pretty moot point for several reasons. It boils down to the fact that viruses aren't actually a problem on Windows if you use either an Anti-virus or common sense.
Only bloatly distros like Ubuntu have isos this big, if you spend more than five minutes looking you'll find that many of the most popular distros are only a couple hundred megabytes or less.Quietlyawesome94 said:The fact that Linux doesn't have Viruses.
Well its due largely to the fact that most Linux software is something we like to call "Open Source."
Actually, the fact that most desktop software for Linux is open source is what leads to it being exploited (see the answer to my next quote). Not to say open source is a bad thing, which it isn't.
The fact that exploits are less common for Linux is mainly due to the fact that it's userbase is less than a tenth of Windows' and secondly due to the security principles of Unix, open source or not. The only instances where open source generally leads to more security is for extremely huge projects with an enormous amount of people involved; something quite rare, particularly for normal desktop applications.
have the time to be downloading 800 megabyte to 1.3 Gigabyte Operating Systems just for the sake of messing around with them (I'm also on AT&T so that means I have a limit of 150 Gigabytes a month for Internet)Quietlyawesome94 said:The fact that Linux doesn't have Viruses.
Linux open source software is a very hard place for a virus to hide in and/or get into.
While this is true, your statement here certainly doesn't imply that open source leads to security. You see, it's not by putting something in the code (although this can and has been done, even in the Linux kernel itself) that hackers exploit open source software, it's by simply reading the code. By reading source code, hackers can not only very easily find deliberate flaws, they can come up with a magnitude of innovative ways to exploit the program into doing what they want as they have been provided with everything there is to know about how the program works.
This is not a con, you can't "mess up your computer" more with Linux than with Windows and you can't really actually mess it up in either. Whether you're likely to mess up more frequently in Linux is another question.Quietlyawesome94 said:Pros; Free Software - A large variety of open and free software that completes the same task just as well if not better than their Windows counterparts.
This isn't a pro, there's lots of free software for Windows too. Also, you'll have to name what specifically is done better if you want that part of what you're saying to actually mean something.
And like I said you can really screw up your computer if you start messing around with stuff you really shouldn't be messing around with.Quietlyawesome94 said:Simplicity - If you're a casual web-surfer/Facebooker and want a simple enviroment to quickly log on and log off... As well as the ++ of not worrying about Viruses/Malware.... Linux is perfect for you.
You're not providing any reason why Linux would be better suited for such a person. If they have an anti-virus, they are already not worrying about Viruses/Malware and, based on what you're saying here, have no reason to make the switch to Linux. For them to want to switch, there would have to be some kind of benefit, like speed, which Ubuntu certainly doesn't provide.
Windows has all of these. Also, "updates every few months" is a concept almost unique to Ubuntu - other distros tend to get updates much faster.Quietlyawesome94 said:Preferably Linux Ubuntu or Linux Mint.
Stating that the only two distros you have used are preferable over others is ignorant to the point where it's completely ridiculous and won't convince anyone.
Here are a few more words that best describe the great things about Linux; stability, variaty, an application for just about any thing you can think of, updates every few months with updates and improvements to the OSQuietlyawesome94 said:Revive Those older systems! - The ability to take older PC'S that came with something archaic like 256 megabytes of RAM and Windows 98... Take those older PC's and use a Linux Distro specificly designed for older PC's (In
this case Puppy Linux Puppy Linux)
Recommending a distro you later state you haven't used is hardly convincing. Also, there's generally more to be gained from installing a generally lightweight distro than one designed specifically for older PCs. The former tends to have a lot more support and updates than the latter and also provide you with a lot more possibilities.
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