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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.
Congrats for sticking it through!
I've got the same laptop and running mint. How is your wifi when you resume sleep or open your lid?
Hey congrats, @[email protected]! 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!
you most certainly are that savvy of a person
There are millions of us.
Glad to hear OP has the spare time to make it "it just works"
😂
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)
tar --help
You picked some really good books to get started with! Lot of online help these days!
Welcome in from the cold. We have blankets and coco.
Love that command line book. Got it on my shelf next to me. Have fun
Welcome to the community.
I do have a question: Do you like your current desktop environment (Cinnamon)? Some newcomers complain that it looks quite dated (which I agree). If so, you could try out KDE Plasma or GNOME instead.
Congratulations Comrade! Good luck to you in your new world of free awesome software. I escaped Windows years ago and can only imagine how bad it's gotten.
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.
Also, don't forget manuals have pages lol. I forget how many there are. 99% of the time you just need page 1.
oh wow, thank you for
sudo !!
this is amazing :D
tldr or teeldeer is the short manual. fwiw
wtf gives the summary, and works for acronyms too.
If you don't know how to use man, just type in man man.
What I think about every time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Man
(Six Demon Bag is an amazing album btw)
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.
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.
No starch press is my favorite. Welcome!
Welcome to the community!
Hell yeah!! Welcome, fellow penguin. 🐧
Anyone have tips for someone wanting to do the same but have two hurdles?
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?
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.~~
I would recommend making a new post since hijacking someone else's is kinda rude imho.
Welcome! I have been using Mint many years now its a gold standard distro you made a solid choice.