I just want something to have fun with. But I appreciate the beautiful irony. Probably girls like it.

I've already picked up a distro and installed it.

Must confess I wasnt expecting such trolling level in an open-source community. I used to think one of the main purposes of this kind of "brotherhood" was to help spread free software and help each other.

I just want to learn. Guess you're the kind of person with personal troubles that choose to release all of the stress pocking other people.

Again, I'm not here to hack anything, nor bother with other people brain issues.

I really sorry but English is not my native language. I remind Maxwell Smart a bit but can't get it. However, I appreciate the sense of humor

True. But some people here still thinking I came expecting to become kinda lucky hacker.
I have a deep respect to people, learning and software. From time to time I use to get into something new. Most of time it involves changing the subject. I've have met nice people, learned useful things and acquired great knowledge. This time I though it was time to learn Linux. I heard the open source community was one of the most fraternal sites on the internet to know new people and share knowledge. And I never though I could be wrong.

I'm really sorry if I have annoyed someone with my questions. And I thanks everyone who gently helped me with my doubts. From this point I'll start learning on my own

It didn't look like trolling, but rather an expression of disapproval. "Hacking" into somebody else's computer to make changes behind their back is considered "cracking" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture for more information). Changing your brother in laws wallpaper is cracking by only a little bit, but it's still cracking, and liable to cause offense.

Last Friday my brother in law throw salt into my "mate" (Argentinian drink supposed to be drinked sweet) . That was while he was checking Facebook using my WiFi. After that I checked mine, previously unlocking his laptop (cause he gave me his password a while ago) . You are not even close to undertand my humor, or my confidence with any people, simply, because you don't know me or what I do. Period.

And "cracking" always involves brute forcing something. Most of time damagin something. breaking something. Cracking something. But why argue about semantics ? I'm still proposing a joke.

I can see you trust Wikipedia as a source of information. So take a look here :

please let me explain!
ever since the tv series mr roboto staretd, there's been an influx of total newbs trying to install kali linux (which isn't even designed to be installed) and use it as their main distro, because they thought it would make invincible linux hackers/crackers/whatever out of them.
and most of them are really totally clueless, and would get abusive when reminded that there's no use running kali as an everyday distro, and especially not if you're new to linux.

so you have to see the reactions in this light.


from the kali.org website:

It's a brotherhood now? what about the females here can they be part of the brotherhood that's exclusively in your head?

It's called the open source community, some folks are nice others, but when someone walks in off the street tries trying to install a pen test distro (you don't install that it sorta defeats the purpose) then talks about hacking his brothers computer that person get to be on the receiving end of my ire. Secondly if you can't code which requires that math you don't like you're not a hacker your're a script kiddie and deserving of no respect. About your retaliation for the drink, does you're drink contain personal data, bank info, photos, correspondence etc. it seems doubtful to me so hacking a his computer for a little funny shows a complete lack of honor or respect.

I see. So, yeah, I guess a lot of kids trying to show up came up here expecting to hack the world in two days. I can see why most of people here don't trust 100% the newcomers. But I have explained now: no, I'm not that kind of people. I want to learn Linux, because it's beautiful to do so and because it's challenging. I like challenging things that's why I picked up BT on first place. I din't know its useless now and it was designed to be a tool mainly for professionals or experienced users. I though it as any other Linux distro just with some extra tools for that purpose. Thanks to the people that helped me, I know it now. That's why I downloaded Debian to start over also with a GUI or interface. Sadly, xfce crashed a few times and I couldn't handle it so I left over till I have time to search info about backing to default Debian GUI or whatever (maybe Debian doesn't have a GUI originally? )

Anyway, now my hollydays are over so I'll keep with it but with less time

And again a big thanks to everyone who came here to give me a hand

Why LinuxFromScratch, of course.

yes, about that.
i know i'm being opinionated now, but otoh op is asking for opinions, no?
so, my opinion is: why start from scratch? if you want to be good with cars, do you start by mining iron ore?
so i would rather recommend archlinux (others will chime in and recommend slackware and maybe gentoo at this point), installed with the beginners' guide - it will give you lots of insight in how the pieces fit together and how to do it, while still retaining a realistic level of complexity (not going down into the atoms).
nothing against LFS of course; in the end you yourself have to decide what you actually want to learn and how to go on about it.
enjoy the ride. yes, linux is beautiful.

Do you think Arch is the right ride he was unsuccessful at installing Debian Arch certainly isn't really harder to get up than Debian but is more involved. I think I'd go for LMDE he he'll be able to keep his Windows install without much drama and still have to work a bit to get a fully functional desktop but it will hold his hand a bit.

:D Well I like this answer.

I promise to look for info of anything you suggest guys. At this point I'm very happy to know there's a lot of distros and each one of them has its own supporters. I guess everyone of you started that way. Like different paths and now you are all here.

As I said, I like this answer because this is exactly what I want: to know how the things works . It doesnt matter if they come from Debian, Archlinux or that old OS I used to have and lost.

I really appreciate the feedback and at this very momment I'm heading to archlinux.org

Just one thing. As I can't be constantly installing all different builds you suggest I'm thinking about using a virtual machine in Windows to test the lightweight one, at least.
Isn't there any conflict with that? Is OK for a linux OS being vitualized? Would it have acces to hardware and all that staff no matter what ?

I can do this virtualization through Hyper-v. I hope that's OK

I guess I haven't mention this but I actually did successfully install Debian. it's working. Even I managed to reinstall the custom Firefox it came with. I suspect xfce was the main problem because everything was working ok except FF. It used to crash and give some fuzzy colors in screen. Like a faulty graphic adapter. But as I said everything else was working pretty awesome.

May I : (statement from Linux Mint community)

LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) is a very exciting distribution, targeted at experienced users, which provides the same environment as Linux Mint but uses Debian as its package base, instead of Ubuntu.

LMDE is less mainstream than Linux Mint, it has a much smaller user base, it is not compatible with PPAs, and it lacks a few features. That makes it a bit harder to use and harder to find help for, so it is not recommended for novice users.

I like challenging things! But if I get to a point where I can't fix something ( because I will mess A LOT till break everything) , where could I find help?

The Linux Mint forums.

http://forums.linuxmint.com/