How difficult is it to switch from Windows to Linux for someone who isn't savvy with programming or higher order computer science?
How difficult is it to navigate Linux in general?
>>53529345
As long as you install a user friendly distro, Linux is extremely easy to use.
>>53529345
With a GUI, navigating Linux is exactly the same as windows
Major difference is that you now have access to the equivilant of the app store but not all of your windows shit will be compatible/available
If you just web browse and type documents, it's exactly the same
>>53529345
If you're just going to be using a web browser, it's pretty much just as easy. If you're going to try any sort of fancier customization/configuration you will very likely end up in the command line, which is actually very flexible and nice to use once you get used to it.
>>53529345
Do you know how to use an iphone / android?
if yes then you'll be fine
>>53529345
I'm currently tackling the Arch linux installation. I haven't done it yet but every failure I've learned a tiny bit more.
>>53529345
What do you generally use the computer for
>>53529345
I did it with Linux Lite 1.0.6. I simply wiped my hard drive with a bootable usb toolkit and installed Linux on it. I explored the desktop environment and the file systems. I learned as I went.
>>53529345
>savvy with programming or higher order computer science?
stop listening to the autists here that try to brag about muh gentoo/arch. you'll be fine
>>53529345
Easy until you have to use command prompts or the terminal.
For non-power users this can be avoided by running premade safe usercripts.
>>53531913
This. Linux is not a Sooper Seekrit Klubhouse.
>>53529345
why is her vag so puffy
>>53532002
They're supposed to be puffy. Flexible puffy vags have an easier childbirth.
>>53532002
Jewfro
>>53529345
>How difficult is it to navigate Linux in general?
Without a GUI it's as hard as using Windows CLI, meaning not hard at all.
Grew up using DOS and Win3.1 so it's not a problem.
You can easily print out one page full of CLI on how to navigate and it becomes ridiculously easy as you practice.
>>53529345
>>53529368
>>53529418
>>53530316
>>53531886
>>53531986
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux,
is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component
of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell
utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day,
without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU
which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are
not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a
part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system
that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run.
The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself;
it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is
normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system
is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux"
distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
>>53529345
Kudelia a kawaii.
A KAWAIII
>>53529345
Get a Mac or install Ubuntu, stay away from everything else as
>>53532883
Atra is better
who is this fluid druid
>>53530316
I nailed Arch on my second try, and I only got it wrong the first time because I screwed up the partition.
Read the damn wiki, and pay attention. it's not that hard.
