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So I've had very limited experience in the past with using Linux, like my best friend and computer guy just a few years ago, showed me that dual booting?(Having two OSes on a PC) is indeed a thing. Well I'm trying to get into video editing, and a lot of the good, free, open source programs are Linux only, but like in some places Linux feels not so user friendly. So what is the best way to like get a custom to Linux? 

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Basically, just use it for a while. It's different from Windows and takes some getting used to but it's really not that complicated.

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Is the windows store version of Ubuntu worth checking out?

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7 minutes ago, Geoff35674567 said:

install arch linux.

If you want to get into the community, yes. If you want to get into using Linux yourself, no lmao.

 

 

OP, I'd use Manjaro. Basically as user-friendly as it gets without being a cut down, shit OS.

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4 hours ago, Geoff35674567 said:

install arch linux.

it is user friendly after a desktop is install. I mean the tools are all minimal, not even the gnome setting is there after an installation of gnome. 

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4 hours ago, Yogi_DaBear221 said:

So I've had very limited experience in the past with using Linux, like my best friend and computer guy just a few years ago, showed me that dual booting?(Having two OSes on a PC) is indeed a thing. Well I'm trying to get into video editing, and a lot of the good, free, open source programs are Linux only, but like in some places Linux feels not so user friendly. So what is the best way to like get a custom to Linux? 

the same way you would learn macos or windows. 

 

Get use to the terminal. You can do stuffs without it but GUIs suck, especially the software centers, compare to terminal tools. If you must use GUI, synaptic package manager is far better than anything ship default by Ubuntu. 

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7 hours ago, kelvinhall05 said:

If you want to get into the community, yes. If you want to get into using Linux yourself, no lmao.

Used it for 5 years, personally I vastly prefer it to any of the "easier" derivatives like manjaro - I know what I want on my system and how to get it there quickly, I don't want to deal with a bulkier than needed installer and manually remove things I don't want or need. If you know what you're doing it quickly becomes much less of a hassle than distros that are supposed to be more "user friendly". I wouldn't use it as a first introduction to Linux though.

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It all comes down to getting used to it, but you can install some Gnome Shell Extensions to customize your desktop / top bar etc. to your liking.

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On 12/20/2019 at 4:46 PM, Yogi_DaBear221 said:

Is the windows store version of Ubuntu worth checking out?

That installs Ubuntu that you can get command line access to. You can install a desktop and then remote desktop on to it if you so please.

 

I personally have kubuntu installed on a 32 gb partition that I use when I'm working from home.

 

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There’s a great Ubuntu based distro called Zorin os, and it is very user friendly, and relatively lightweight. Has all Ubuntu’a support and an Windows like interface and has an included “store” with a lot of the basic apps that you’ll need. 

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Ubuntu is about as user friendly as it gets for a linux distro already...

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On 12/22/2019 at 2:46 PM, Kilrah said:

Ubuntu is about as user friendly as it gets for a linux distro already...

I agree though I like popos far more, the gnome it uses gets completely out of the way and keyboard short cuts for moving around desktops and moving windows are very intuitive

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