Please can one of the smart cookies on this board tell me all about linux?
It is completely free of niggers and chinks!
>>106821285to tell you all about linux would take in excess of your lifespan
It's an operating system. Hope that helps.
>>106821285it's for self motivated peoplelikely you're a homebody shutin looking for a distraction from a miserable jeet existenceso there's nothing for you there, just keep fantasizing about having what white people have
how may i help you
>>106821375I know very little about it and I'm thinking about downloading a linux distro. Can you just run me over the basics and tell me some beginner advice if thats alright?
>>106821292lol
>>106821399Use it in a VM first. If you install on bare metal, make sure you don't care about the data. Other than that... You install software through the package manager (or software Center), that's about it when you're starting out.
>>106821285If you can avoid getting lost in tinkering and don't rely on proprietary windows based software to work, you can set your shit up and just cruise for decades with a weekly sudo apt update/ upgrade.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
