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First installation advice (from another novice)
Hoping this post can save someone 100s of hours in lost productivity and downtime.
If I could make just 3 suggestions to someone starting out with linux they would be
1-Stick with a novice friendly distro such as Ubuntu LTS(latest version would be 16.04, NOT 16.10). Choice of actual shell and or DE is less important
2- After your setup is complete and everything works as it should do NOT install anything via command line UNLESS YOU ARE 1000% SURE IT WON'T BRICK YOUR SETUP!
Rely if at all possible on Software & Updates in Ubuntu. This especially applies to nVidia drivers.
3- Always make backups BEFORE doing any major installs.
Last edited by eco_bach; 01-09-2017 at 06:19 AM.
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