What did you wish you knew when you first installed a linux os?
What
>>53854078
That it is a meme.
>>53854078
>What did you wish you knew when you first installed a linux os?
The concentration is a skill, not an inherent trait, and that unless I started practicing it I'd be completely fucked ten years down the road.
Or the "man" command. That's handy to know too.
How to not break pulsaudio like a fag0t
How to switch to command line after Xorg failed on first boot
That I shouldn't install libraries globally
>>53854078
To avoid ricing
My first experience with Linux was with CentOS, while following along with LFCS's Linux Essentials course by Andrew Mallet.
It's all done through virtual machines, so you can do it on Windows or Mac. The first server you install from physical media, the second you install from the network. You use the minimal install, then he instructs you on how to manually install a GUI on one of the servers using yum.
It's excellent for beginners. Google "LFCS Linux Essentials torrent" if you're interested.
>>53854078
I don't even remember at this point. My first time was installing µLinux on an old HP Vectra in like 1998.
>>53854774
its on KAT
https://kat.cr/lfcs-linux-essentials-t11952866.html
>>53854557
Why not? I'm guilty of this
>linux os
Not saying GNU/Linux or just Linux
That Ubuntu is for niggers and retards.
I wish i had known how much of a timesink it becomes when you use a distro that's more complicated than ubuntu or just anything out-of-the-box
>>53854078
A lot of things, the first one is that i don't need to use the browser to download executable files, also that you mostly don't need to install drivers and the distros generally provides the few proprietary drivers. Also that i can use ctrl+r to search my command history in the terminal.
>>53854078
that working wifi drivers are more valuable than gold
>>53855623
I have installed ubuntu in a lot of laptops and the only ones i've had problems are some broadcom models.
>>53855536
It's not a time"sink" because once you learn the dozen or so commands you know them for good and can re-create your desired configuration in minutes
>>53855536
Word.
ALSA a shit.
>>53854078
not to install ubuntu
I've never used it for more than a day.
I've ran Lubuntu and #1 (old PC), but they felt lacking in some way compared to windows.
I already knew it was a hobbyist OS, but was forced to love it because Sun ded.
>>53855697
This. Windows is driver hell compared to loonix. Broadcom though.... those little cunt busters.
>>53855861
I felt the same way, personal preference I guess.
>>53855861
>>53856019
>>>/reddit/
>>53856023
>Whatever I don't like is le reddit mae-mae
go back to lainchan
>>53854078
I wish I'd have known about GNU/BSD
dont run everything as root/login to DE as root user. -Fedora Core 6 (Zod)
>>53854078
Emacs
>>53854078
Pardon, but 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 facilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a tweaked 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.
>>53854078
How to actually partition the drive.
Someone could make it a little more new user friendly.
>>53855623
Idk man, only distros with which I've had driver problems are Ubuntu based ones, running antergos without problems.
That to put Arch on an USB stick you use dd, and that I shouldn't install Ubuntu instead.
>>53854078
How to bed white chicks
reading thru documentation doesn't magically make features you wish existed appear
>>53856076
when did they stop banning people for that?
Installing Ubuntu with unity instead of GNOME
How annoying it was going to be, and how much I was going to dislike it.
>>53854078
What kind of stupid question is this?
>>53858326
Every OS sucks
>>53858374
Some suck more than others.
>>53854078
Filesystems and partitions.
>>53854078
I start with knoppix long time ago, how the fuck i install programs
>>53858802
Me 2 senpai. I had to deal with an absurdly small / partition for a while
>>53854380
This.
>>53854562
very beautiful
>>53854078
That it's virtually useless without an internet connection.
>>53854078
just go straight to kde instead of trying pretty much literally fucking everything else
>>53854078
for i in $(ls /usr/bin); do man $i; done
>>53854078
>What did you wish you knew when you first installed a linux os?
That ArchWiki exists and it's more reliable than 8-year-old forum posts.
>>53858971
This.
Had old WinXP machine and went to friends house to get programs to bring back home. Install Ubuntu8.10, go to friends house to get programs, bring back .deb, missing dependencies everywhere. Reinstall WinXP until I had internet. Dualboot ever since.
>>53854078
wish I did more research instead of copying online step-by-step tutorials
Not to install it.
>>53854078
Elementary OS is a gimic.
>>53854078
The man command
could have saved me so much time looking shit up on the internet with a shitty connection
