New to Linux.

[Bearpaddocks]

I'm new to Linux, and want to use it as my daily driver in my old computers (Windows shits itself and I refuse MacOS). But I am terrible with coding and the command line. Any useful things that I could use to help?

 

Running Linux Ubuntu "Zorin" 15.3 I think. Warning: Only has 4Gb of RAM on all computers, and OLD hardware. (2010 or before for all of it)

[maplepants]

The best way to get used to LInux is just by using it. You'll end having to search the internet if you run into any problems. If you use DuckDuckGo then you'll automatically get answers from https://stackoverflow.com/ highlighted, but if not just pick the highest result from stackoverflow or https://askubuntu.com/ and you should be fine.

 

It's generally pretty easy, especially if you're running it on old hardware which you can't ask too much of anyway. The biggest and most important tip that I'll give is to never run a command you find on the internet with "sudo" unless you're sure what it does.

 

For example, if you were searching for the shutdown command and found "sudo shutdown -h now", it might be pretty clear what it does but you might still want to run "shutdown --help" beforehand just to know what the flag "-h" is doing. You don't have to be some kind of a linux dev with a deep understanding of how the OS works before running it, you just need to understand what all the parts of the command are and what they're doing.

If you do that, and you have a good backup system for your important files then you're basically set.

[Dat Guy]

4 hours ago, Bearpaddocks said:

I'm new to Linux, and want to use it as my daily driver in my old computers (Windows shits itself and I refuse MacOS).

Have you tried other systems? Linux can be heavy on resources - especially the *buntu ones.

[whm1974]

49 minutes ago, Dat Guy said:

Have you tried other systems? Linux can be heavy on resources - especially the *buntu ones.

Simply use a lightweight Distro. There are a number of them meant to be rune on older computers.

[Guest]

7 hours ago, Bearpaddocks said:

I'm new to Linux, and want to use it as my daily driver in my old computers (Windows shits itself and I refuse MacOS). But I am terrible with coding and the command line. Any useful things that I could use to help?

 

Running Linux Ubuntu "Zorin" 15.3 I think. Warning: Only has 4Gb of RAM on all computers, and OLD hardware. (2010 or before for all of it)

KDE has most things configurable in its Settings manager and the overall desktop is similar to Windows 7.

You could try Kubuntu and see if you like it.

With Ubuntu's plethora of packages and KDE's configuration options, you should be able to familiarize yourself fairly quickly and get up and going, assuming the plethora of options doesn't cause confusion.