What an exciting journey!
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2020 12:41 am
G'day mates!
I'm JP from Sydney.
Well I must say that this introduction serves to prove that a complete and utter n00b like myself can even figure this out.
I have no experience in Linux, coding, programming or anything to do with computing except being a 20+ years a point and click Windows thrall. With all the updates to Win10 recently and Gates&Co furthering their agenda for complete technological domination of the human race, I decided it was finally time to stop umming and ahhing about whether or not to finally take the plunge into LINUX.
"Surely," I thought, "Linux can manage, without the windows bloatware, what is now my extremely limited computing life." Readings PDFs/docs, writing PDFs/docs, and internet browsing. I will probably add video editing to this list at a later date, but since that is also new to me I do not really care at the moment which program I end up using for that. As long as I can continue to read my collection of 6,500+ PDFs for my mythology research I don't really care about the rest.
After a visual survey of the relevant distros, I decided that MINT is possibly the closest to what I am used to with my now ex-Windows experience.
The installation instructions were daunting at first. I kept getting caught out with the fact that, when I run PowerShell on the folder, I need to enter the actual NAME of the iso file. After about half a dozen failures (file not found, confused?) I finally figured it out, renamed that stupidly long downloaded iso to something I could easily remember and type out in the command prompt (like LINUXMINT64) and it worked!
Then the resulting hash didn't agree with the SHA256.txt, so I had to figure out where to download a new one from. Thanks AAPTNet Aus, this one worked and agreed!
Followed the instructions to burn a Flash drive and here we are! Wow! That was a fun afternoon!
Thank you everyone for making this experience accessable to even a complete and utter newb.
Cheers,
JP.
I'm JP from Sydney.
Well I must say that this introduction serves to prove that a complete and utter n00b like myself can even figure this out.
I have no experience in Linux, coding, programming or anything to do with computing except being a 20+ years a point and click Windows thrall. With all the updates to Win10 recently and Gates&Co furthering their agenda for complete technological domination of the human race, I decided it was finally time to stop umming and ahhing about whether or not to finally take the plunge into LINUX.
"Surely," I thought, "Linux can manage, without the windows bloatware, what is now my extremely limited computing life." Readings PDFs/docs, writing PDFs/docs, and internet browsing. I will probably add video editing to this list at a later date, but since that is also new to me I do not really care at the moment which program I end up using for that. As long as I can continue to read my collection of 6,500+ PDFs for my mythology research I don't really care about the rest.
After a visual survey of the relevant distros, I decided that MINT is possibly the closest to what I am used to with my now ex-Windows experience.
The installation instructions were daunting at first. I kept getting caught out with the fact that, when I run PowerShell on the folder, I need to enter the actual NAME of the iso file. After about half a dozen failures (file not found, confused?) I finally figured it out, renamed that stupidly long downloaded iso to something I could easily remember and type out in the command prompt (like LINUXMINT64) and it worked!
Then the resulting hash didn't agree with the SHA256.txt, so I had to figure out where to download a new one from. Thanks AAPTNet Aus, this one worked and agreed!
Followed the instructions to burn a Flash drive and here we are! Wow! That was a fun afternoon!
Thank you everyone for making this experience accessable to even a complete and utter newb.
Cheers,
JP.