new to linux

[pepsimax]

wanna get to know the basics in linux pls help

 

[YellowJersey]

I highly recommend Linux Mint. It's very beginner friendly, especially if you're coming from a Windows environment. It's what I use.

Best way to get started is to just install it and take a look. If you're working with a desktop, I'd suggest popping in a fresh boot drive, creating a bootable USB, and installing it that way so that you can take a look at it.

[pepsimax]

thx so much i run mac tho vr or vm 

[YellowJersey]

1 minute ago, pepsimax said:

thx so much i run mac tho vr or vm 

I don't have any experience with Macs. Maybe someone else can give you additional guidance?

[pepsimax]

i can do a  Windows vm how much ram do you think i should use

[tealflip]

31 minutes ago, pepsimax said:

i can do a  Windows vm how much ram do you think i should use

How much ram do you have on the computer?

[YellowJersey]

9 hours ago, pepsimax said:

i can do a  Windows vm how much ram do you think i should use

I think LM says minimum 4gb

 

[RollyShed]

I've installed Mint Cinnamon on a laptop with 2GB so it will and does work.

If you want Mint on a Mac I'd suggest looking at -

https://forums.linuxmint.com/

 

There are a few threads on what does and doesn't work.

[swarfendor437]

If you are installing Linux on a Mac (not sure how VM's work on a Mac) but a hard metal install needs Balena Etcher USB to install as there is nothing else out there for Mac in respect of installing Linux.

You might want to give Zorin Lite that uses xfce, a very lightweight DE, or try the live version of Devuan 4.0 that uses LXQt. Zorin interface looks like Windows 7. LXQt looks like Windows 2K menu. Devuan is one of the few distros that still supports 32-bit too. [Devuan was setup  by former Debian developers who were unhappy with the move to SystemD over SysVinit boot system - the latter is much superior and not bloatware or security issue.

[BasicWombat]

You might want to start with this vid from Anthony. He does a good break on how to get started if this is your first time to Linux.

It doesn't matter which distro you start with, because you're likely to distro hop until you find the one you like. 

 

In the video he uses PopOS as a good start as its most like Windows and makes the transition a little easier while learning the new platform.

 

 

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i can do a  Windows vm how much ram do you think i should use

If you're using a VM, then based on your host computer will depend how much you can give your VM.

For most entry level Linux distros like Ubuntu and PopOS, you could get away with 2vCPU and 4GB RAM while you're testing.

But this might have to be increased as you load more applications.

[Guest]

I have a question, do you want to install Linux or do you want to experiment and find out what all of the fuss is about?

If all that you want to do is to find out what the fuss is all about, you don't have to install it at all, as you can run it strictly from RAM, without making any changes to your present setup.

To do this,

1. Download a copy of Linux Mint, one of the easiest for a beginner, and burn it onto either a CD or a flash drive. The program has to be burnt, as I am not familiar with Apple go to their store and lok for a CD BURNER application and NOT a CD COPIER, they're quite different. A BURNING program, makes the device BOOTABLE, like the hard drive on your system currently does.

2. After burning to the device, turn your computer off, it has to be completely OFF and not on standby or Hibernate.

3. Assuming you've used a flash stick to install your copy of Linux onto, press the necessary key combination to allow you to choose the boot device and boot from it. After booting this will immediately take you to the Linux desktop and you can go from there.

The same method will also work with the Windows Os.

I'm sorry if you know some of this, but I'm assuming that not everyone who may read this WILL understand, and I've deliberately made this as elementary as possible.

Once again, I apologize to anyone who finds this too elementary.

[chocolatekarma]

When it comes to learning about Linux, spoon feeding is not the answer, because nothing will stick and there are many ways to do virtually everything.  The best way to learn is to dive in head first and learn from trial and error. 

[wasab]

I suggest you finish the Linux command line course from code academy. This is how I really learn to use the terminal. Before, things like grep and sed confused the heck out of me because I have no ideas what all those pipes and redirect meant. Everything is so much clear after I finish everything on code academy related to the Linux terminal.