Do not copy and paste into Bash if you don’t understand the commands you’re pasting in
Do not copy and paste into Bash if you don’t understand the commands you’re pasting in
This is the biggest thing. I’m very comfortable in Bash, but that is not the norm; the second my wife needs to run sudo apt get
, she’s out, fuck that
It’s probably the standard in both POSIX and the Single UNIX Specification, so I guess ask Ken Thompson?
LxQt is nice, it is barebones like Xfce, but built on the Qt framework like KDE. Xfce uses GTK, like GNOME.
Stop fucking creating terrorists. America can’t though, creating terrorists is their favorite pastime
I specifically like Xfce or LxQt, because I generally run older hardware; I suppose my biggest question is how easily I could use either (not overly picky about which). I’m not sure which desktop environment LMDE defaults to, but both Gnome and KDE are deal-breakers for me, unless it’s easily changeable.
I don’t have that problem on my actual Debian machines, because they’re headless anyways, there is no desktop environment at all
I’ve been curious about LMDE, I use the Xfce version of regular Mint, but am comfortable in Debian (at least, server Debian). How does LMDE compare?
Linux vs. Windows doesn’t generally affect the cost unless you’re building the machine yourself, or buying from a Linux specific vendor like Framework (which are generally more expensive than what you’ll find at Best Buy anyways). The major PC manufacturers are going to have Windows pre-installed whether you want it or not.
Pascal or Camel are best cases
It’s not real, it’s an xkcd joke
Eh. Overseas? Definitely not. If my home is invaded? You bet your ass I’m fighting the invaders.
The best book is either Consider Phlebas by Iain Banks, or Fine Structure by Sam Hughes.
Oh, you meant programming books. Maybe still try Sam Hughes, it’ll probably be more blog post than book, though
Edit: You might also like Ra by Sam Hughes; it’s magic as a field of science/engineering, and spells have programming-like syntax. Spoiler: ‘magic’ is not actually magic
Always Debian. I’m most comfortable in an environment with apt
, and that’s even more important on a server
Want to download an application? There’s the App Store. No need to download random .exes from sketchy websites (and learn what a “computer virus” is the hard way)
We’ve had that for years, it used to just be called apt-get. Though I’ll admit a GUI software center is nice when I don’t know exactly what I’m looking for
They reverse-engineered them
Edit: Huh, apparently I misremembered
Bikes. It’s always bikes
I’m not sure, I got my current one through our tech guy at work, not sure where he gets them
Refurbished ThinkPad. The answer is always a refurbished ThinkPad
And that’s how you get the Thompson hack
Fair; that was mostly a general warning, not necessarily directed at you, because many people do copypaste terminal commands without knowing what they are actually doing.
As long as you understand what a command does, absolutely go for it. No point typing that shit out when somebody else already has