I am dual booting into ubuntu at the moment, and after fiddling around with it I have come to feel the joy of Linux actually.
I am on ubuntu 14.4 atm and it if not a difficult distro imo.
I am excited to learn more and I am waiting for Wendell's Linux videos, which is exciting.
And! I really feel happy when I am on linux, I have VPN which I got help to get installed and I have really really basic grip on the terminal.
I urge people to try it out and ask for help you will get it, but be specific.
Goines! :3
derp! EDIT: get on mumble if you are really having problems, there be helpful peoples , but if there is no one on there just lurk until there be helpful peoples :3 there be dargons as well :3
Yeah, I think you can just install a different environment like Gnome 3, Cinnamon, or something similar and that should kill the spyware as well. I have been messing with Mint a lot, but I will probably just go for Ubuntu on my next rig... and I will also install Fedora Workstation because reasons.
But yeah if any one is interested in joining the penguin cult. I am normally on the mumble. Eden, Novasty and Anton do come on from time to time. Some times it is way easier to help people over voice.
So if you are interested stop by the mumble or IRC if you are shy.
Pawmanic is knowledgable but I won't volunteer him since he may strangle me with surgical tubing. :P
Ubuntu isn't a hard distro as I said , but I want to learn more about what you can do with the terminal and yeah Thanks Taco Bell for the help and you others ofc . see you later maybe on the talky thingy :D
Personally, I really like Gnome 3.14, since it has a lot of usability features to complement a multi-touch screen. I typically use Cinnamon everywhere else, though Manjaro's implementation of XFCE looks nice as well - Cinnamon is just out-of-box more user-friendly and pretty. I still haven't gotten around to using a tiling DM like BSPWM - I like the look of those, but I don't know if I could ever get it to work.
Distro environments are pretty convertible as they are, though. As long as you have a package manager that works, repos that can support, and an environment that hasn't crashed and burned yet (though that would be fun too), it doesn't really matter.
I've not actually been on mumble as Taco Bell says (not yet at least) but I am on IRC, anyone who needs help or just wants to chat about a Linux or anything else is free to come join, there are a few Linux users, and ill certainly try to answer any questions I see. server: chat.freenode.net channel: #teksyndicate , or connect using webchat https://webchat.freenode.net/
I'm subbed to them on youtube. Are they a reliable source of information? I found them when I was going through a BSD phase and trying to find the most secure operating system I could. My conclusion was that Hardened Gentoo is more secure than OpenBSD. Apparently it's more of a social issue with the hierarchy in the OpenBSD team. Their main claim is the number of bugs found on the default install and waraxe.us, and other sites say that number is incorrect. Also it's rumored that FreeBSD jails are less secure.
When you feel like it I recommend trying out Enlightenment. Its called e17 in the repos. It's my favorite environment because of the customization. I have a fully dark theme, for working in the dark, on my triple monitor setup. And I also have 4 virtual monitors for each real monitor, this is incredibly useful for what I do. (HINT: Lots of OS virtual environments, for my cross platform programming interests.) EDIT: But hell you could make it look like windows if you so desired, just to mess with friends I have a usb drive with debian installed on it, and enlightenment is configured to look like WIN95. Gets lots of lols
I am trying to get my wifes computer running open suse myself, but im having issues getting the drivers to display network properly. I have no way to wire it in, so I may have to find a driver on my machine and manually install it in terminal so that I can actually play with the damn thing. What are everyones thoughts on open suse though?
I never tried OpenSuse, but there is a chance you could find that necessary driver in the newest Linux kernel release. Have you tried compiling a custom configured kernel?