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- | I have been fascinated with computers and technology since the beginning of the 1990s. I am a long time Windows user, since Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, but since the late 1990s/early 2000s I played with Linux (at the time it was Fedora Core, Ubuntu, Libranet, and a few obscure ones). But it was always for a short period of time, since at that time gaming and serious video/photo editing was more than limiting | + | I have been fascinated with computers and technology since the beginning of the 1990s. I am a long time Windows user, since Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, but since the early 2000s I played with Linux (at the time it was Fedora Core, Ubuntu, Libranet, and a few other obscure ones). But it was always for a short period of time, since at that time gaming and serious video/photo editing was more than limited |
Sporadically, | Sporadically, | ||
- | So I am trying, once again, a total switch from Windows to Linux. First, I chose Linux Mint, as it is a quite newbie friendly, it is rock solid, and stable. Later, I moved to Ubuntu MATE, and currently | + | So I am trying, once again, a total switch from Windows to Linux. First, I chose Linux Mint, as it is a quite newbie friendly, |
+ | Also, I am not a programmer, and do not wish to compile files nor do I want to use hours and days tweaking codes and lines in a terminal or vim. I just want to use my machines for whatever I want to use them for (mostly writing, gaming, browsing, video editing). I felt that Linux Mint fitted | ||
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- | //(16 Sep 2022)//: I have switched from Debian Testing to [[http:// | + | //(Feb 2023)//: Shifted back to Debian. It just works. Yes, it uses systemd, but it works. \\ |
+ | //(16 Sep 2022)//: I have switched from Debian Testing to [[http:// | ||
//(29 Jan 2022)//: I have switched from Ubuntu MATE to Debian 11 Stable on January 19, 2022 on my main machine, and thus is also most tips in this handbook. | //(29 Jan 2022)//: I have switched from Ubuntu MATE to Debian 11 Stable on January 19, 2022 on my main machine, and thus is also most tips in this handbook. | ||
//(12 Apr 2020)//: I got a ThinkPad T450, so I installed Debian Sid on it. A wonderful distro. Use it primarily for browsing, writing and such. \\ | //(12 Apr 2020)//: I got a ThinkPad T450, so I installed Debian Sid on it. A wonderful distro. Use it primarily for browsing, writing and such. \\ |
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