Speaking of challenges. I totally forgot about this. Thanks for the brain jog.
We have the 1 Year Linux Challenge Thread.
For those looking to expand their computer literacy, Linux is a great platform to learn. As Wendell stated in his Level 1 Linux videos, in working with Linux you can feel the heartbeat of the system. Being open source you can know what your computer is doing. Gaming on Linux is becoming viable as more gamers are playing their games on Linux, see Steam HW Survey . This challenge is for those looking to give Linux a good try as a daily driver for a year. There are many emulation programs available to run the software you can’t do without, see Linux Software List , or even the possibility of running your software inside a Virtual Machine using VirtualBox, see Virtualbox: Word On Windows On Linux! .
Please note, as many here can attest, there will be times when you break your install. The best words of advice someone gave me was don’t be afraid to break Linux, that’s how you learn how to use it.
Good luck on your Linux adventure!
Participants (33)
(Alphabetical)
aegrescovitae - (Aug 14, 2015) - Arch Linux
alilbabyotter - (Oct 15, 2015) - Ubuntu
amr0d - (Oct 9, 2015) - ElementaryOS
darkimpulse - (Oct 17, 2015) - Ubuntu
Death_Masta187 - (Aug 10, 2015) - Ubuntu Gnome
ErikR - (July 4, 2016) - Manjaro
Erratic_Buddha - (Oct 18, 2015) - Mint
Evil_MOBO - (Aug 18, 2015) - Mint 17.2 Cinnamon
franga2000 - (Oct 27, 2015) - Ubuntu Gnome 15.10
gnysty - (Oct 27, 2015) - Ubuntu Gnome 15.10
gathercryptic - (Aug 8, 2016) - Ubuntu
Gavrel415 - (Sept 20, 2015) - Ubuntu Gnome 15.04
Gone - (Aug 17, 2015) - Ubuntu
jcpepperrub - (Oct 15, 2015) - Ubuntu MATE 15.04 Chromebook 15
jereman1 - (Sept 10, 2015) - Ubuntu Gnome 14.04
Kat - (Oct 19, 2015) - Arch Linux
Lord_Tao - (Feb 1, 2016) - Fedora Cinnamon
lusrusr - (Nov 21, 2015) - Debian GNU/Linux 8.0 Jessie with MATE
MashedBrotato - (Jan 17, 2017) - Fedora
Nick_713 - (Sept 30, 2015) - Fedora 22
ninerdelta - (Sept 5, 2015) - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
penguinairlines - (Aug 19, 2015) - OpenSUSE
RissViss - (Jun 27, 2016) - Manjaro 16.06…
You can enter yourself into the challenge by clicking on the greenish/blue edit button at the bottom of post 1, and entering your username, under the section participants.
After 1 year, comeback and add your username to the completed section and make a blog thread about your experience under the blog section of the forum and then you get a badge!
Although you did say you used Linux in the past, so you could probably be grandfathered in.
Forum self promotion over.