so, i live in argentina and in 2009 the goverment in a way of lawndring money and gaining votes (good perception by the voters translates into votes) gave students netbooks i got mine in 2013 and it came with win 7 and linux mint (what i think is pretty cool) so i decided that,as almost everyone on the tech comunities talks wonders about linux, i had to try it and at first glance it is just a worse win 7 or at least i'm more used to win 7 i just don't get it why does every one love it.what can i do on linux that i cant do on win7 here goes some specs of the machine Processor: Intel(r) Atom(tm) CPU N2600 1.60GHz RAM:2 GB
just read the forum on this, windows and linux are not comparable, windows is a commercial software console, while linux is an open enterprise grade hypermodern operating system. On a netbook, you'll gain tremendous speed and features with linux in comparison to windows, and you'll gain a lot of freedom and security and efficiency, well... maybe not with linux mint, but definitely with bleeding edge distros.
so what would you recommend as a starting point on linux because i want to be able to view linux from a linux user standpoint i will still use win 7 for gamming but i wan't to lear my way around linux.
I hope you're not confusing Linux Mint for Mint software or something (https://wwws.mint.com/login.event). Because to use any "operating system" (OS) you really need to boot into it - either for real on some real hardware or virtually which can be a bit confusing if you don't realize when (if) you're using a virtual environment.
Linux is the kernel and "LinuxMint" (the OS) is just one of many different iterations or "distributions" (distros) that use that kernel. Of course, BSD and even OSX are still other OS's that use still other kernels (not Linux). And yet, about the only thing they all have in common is that they all use the same "shell" - CShell - which can cause even more confusion.
About the only thing distinguishing about Windows is that it has it's own kernel, it's own shell and it's own GUI - which sometimes look very similar to other OS's.
So when you say that you tried Linux Mint without mentioning that you booted it, I have some serious doubts as to what you mean or if you really tried it or not.
Yo me metería con Ubuntu. Armando un dualboot con seven se puede ir probando de a poco. Si vas a probarlo en la net, mandale Lubuntu, pero ojo que segun tengo entendido, no se formatean "así nomas", tienen ciertas trabas (hablo según lo que escuche, la mia tenía xp y así la deje, uso una de escritorio casi siempre)
lo que tenia pensado era dejar la net solo con linux y la grande con win7. como es eso de dualboot? puedo jugar juegos en linux que son exclusivos de win 7, es decir puedo engañar al software para que crea que estoy en win 7? sos de argentina :)?
without starting any innecesary discution (i seriously hope this doesn't sound like amd vs intel) what distro do you guys recommend for a begginer transitioning from windows 7? also what can i do with the terminal and how do i know wich version of linux i have installed?
The reality is that you'll do some distrohopping like everyone that uses linux, and you'll know what distro you want to use in the longer run all by yourself.
To get started, I would suggest Manjaro, it's Arch based and the primary version comes packed and preconfigured with the XFCE desktop environment, which looks a bit like XP at first glance (but is highly configurable to your liking, it doesn't have a fixed look), and that's lightweight (works fast on an Atom CPU) and comes fully configured out of the box.
thank you, another question i have no backgrownd in any code languaje (maybe in robomind but i don't think it counts) so, is it easy to learn shell and what can i do with it?