Linux newb from New Orleans
I've been a Windows Sys Admin for the better part of two decades and repairing PC's for longer than that, and I've always been a bit intimated by Linux. I jumped on the bandwagon because of a lot of security tools I wanted to use, and I haven't looked back since! When away from my desk I only use Linux and I'm loving it. The number of things you can do, and for free!, are amazing and the community is awesome as well. The majority of what I see is extremely helpful.
Besides dedicating a Kali box for the security stuff, I use a Mint laptop running Cinnamon. I like Mint a lot and after trying several flavors including Ubuntu I feel Mint was the best for helping me make the transition and get comfortable. Do any of you agree that Mint is a great "gateway" Linux distro for us former Windows junkies? If not, what was your first distro when you switched and why did you like it? Michael |
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You will often see LQers recommend Mint for someone new to Linux. My first distro was Slackware 10.0. It was an accident--the first distro (I forget what it was now) I tried to install didn't. I stumbled over the Slackware website and Slackware did install, so I set about learning it. Being an old DOSsie, I was quite comfortable with the command line and pretty much never looked back; I learned to use what I had. I self-hosted my website on Slackware for the next five years. Since then, I've used a number of other distros, either on bare metal or in VMs, but I always drift back to the elegant simplicity of Slackware. |
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I started on Xandros, distro-hopped through Fedora, OpenSUSE and some others, went to Ubuntu, then Mint, then LMDE, and finally to the source, Debian. Ubuntu is a fork of Debian, and Mint is a fork of Ubuntu, although LMDE is Debian. That's how I went, but everyone's story is a little different. Mint is fine, for what it is. I never liked it that much, but that's certainly a subjective judgment, and my likes are not everyone's likes. That's why there are so many Linux distros around. There's something for everyone.
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One thing about Slackware--it will not offer to partition your hard disk for you. It contains two partitioning tools. I recommend cfdisk; it's enough like DOS fdisk that you will navigate it easily if you ever used DOS fdisk.
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