6 Mistakes New Linux Users Make
6 Mistakes New Linux Users Make
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6 Mistakes New Linux Users Make
don't install antivirus don't worry about it a virus just move on from that now other questions I've gotten is mainly about file management like defragmentation and those types of things well windows used what's called fat in NTFS both really dated proprietary and frankly crappy file systems almost every single file system in Linux is superior in every way as far as speed reliability all these things so you have ext for better FS XFS all these other file systems which you know I'm sorry I just rattle off a bunch of acronyms but just know Linux does a better job and you don't need to worry about defragmenting either so mistake number two choosing the wrong distribution many gnu/linux users think or hear or look at something and go man I like how that guy's Linux looks what distribution is any on because I need to jump on that no no you don't what you really should do is think of something that is beginner-friendly that will be kind to you right out of the gate that's why I always recommend Linux Mint but I understand some people that's not their Jam try pop OS it is fantastic the reason why I recommend these two distributions is because a lot of things are already done for you you don't have to go out of your way to do pretty much anything because most of them have options to install what's called non free or proprietary repositories and why that's big in most distributions out there and when it comes to Linux don't install these by default which pretty much hamstrings you because you can't do encoding you have problems installing games there's all kinds of issues with them where on Linux Mint and also pop OS they've kind of made these decisions for you already in they have little check boxes that you say yes I want to be able to play music yes I want to be able to play games and that's kind of big especially for a beginning user so don't get hung up on the distributions I highly recommend just sticking to the - I just mentioned and let's move on number three installing software the wrong way so a lot of new users immediately jump into terminal or they log in as root and or they switch user to root and then start installing a whole bunch of crap because they don't want to type the sudo command this is so bad on so many levels because what happens is when you run as root or you switch user to root everything is assigned the root meaning when youexit and you're on your user it will have zero access to everything you are doing root uh it sucks don't do that don't make that mistake don't be that guy cuz I've been there and it's not fun mistake number four sticking to Windows based programs know that when you come to Linux certain programs aren't gonna work if it's Adobe or Microsoft Office you're just jonesing for and you have to have well try the web-based variants if you can handle that that's what I do for my Microsoft Office fix but some users out there try to run them all in wine and they try and get the latest and greatest versions and then just stick with them and now that just doesn't work it doesn't work properly it doesn't work well in that same vein definitely be looking for alternatives in Linux so if you're not willing to switch off of those programs or at least use an older version that is more compatible with like a wine type solution which is a compatibility layer to run it in Linux you might think about just sticking with Windows because some Windows programs just don't work well in Linux and probably never will
such as Microsoft Office such as Adobe until they release a Linux based product but in the meantime look for Linux based alternatives and I'm gonna give you an example here when I first came over I was using Microsoft Office I tried a bunch of Linux software I never really liked any of LibreOffice OpenOffice is okay and I tried a bunch of different ones and I didn't really like them all and that's okay so what I ended up doing was just using the online Microsoft Office where he could use G apps you know the Google Apps is actually pretty well as well online but just know that's kind of like the alternative that I did here the other thing was I was using Adobe Photoshop Adobe Premiere I was using filmora for some things for video editing so all those things were very proprietary and don't work on Linux so I switched over to kdenlive for my video editing and then I also switched over to GIMP from Photoshop and these things were not easy and anybody that says oh well you should just use them this is obviously someone that has never been in this predicament I had literally ten years of knowledge between all of these softwares I knew how to use him really well so when I tried to use GIMP for my images I hated it it was horrible I mean I think if you watch my first 30 days in Linux which I'll link that up here you'll see how much I struggle with this but nowadays I absolutely love GIMP I was on Windows the other day and I was like I can't use Photoshop I need GIMP I have all my scripts and crap in there and I actually was using GIMP which is hilarious if you look at my first 30 days I absolutely despised GIMP I wanted my Photoshop just know that's gonna be a thing but be open to the possibility of changing and learning these new programs and as far as kdenlive that's where I really saved a ton of time because premiere in femoral I had really inefficient processes and when I'm using kdenlive I'm able to not only do just as good of a job but I do it twice as fast so pretty awesome and powerful and let's get to mistake number five back slash verse forged slash you'll start to realize everything in the file system uses forward slashes and in Windows you go C colon backslash and then you know the path name just remember this phrase I'm about to tell you Microsoft thinks backwards so they use back slashes everyone else in the world Mac Linux they think forwards so they use forward slashes that's why the whole world wide web all the addresses use forward
slashes that's why in the Linux file system it uses forward slashes so just remember that back slashes no you don't need to ever use a backslash in Linux and mistake number six distro hopping and I am guilty of this one when I first came I was looking for that silver bullet that thing that just fit me just right and that had all the things I was looking for and really what I needed to know was that everything in Linux is customizable if there's something you don't like about your existing distribution change it you can change your file manager if you don't like your file manager if you like a screenshot tool that another desktop environment uses grab that and put it on this one you can mix and match so many things in Linux and grab pretty much whatever it is you want and make the perfect distribution just stop and stalling and reinstalling and just killing yourself trying to find the perfect one you need to learn how Linux works you need to learn the ins and outs and how to change what it is you don't like and that is really the power of Linux because you can change your menus you can change your bootloader you can change your desktop renderer if you wanted to I mean it's
amazing how much customized ability that is in Linux it's just unfathomable especially when I first came over I really had no idea how much stuff you could change it was just amazing and even today I'm still learning and learning and learning about all the other customizability options and things I don't even know yet because I've only been on Linux for six months and Wow there's just so much you can do with it so that's the six mistakes that new Linux users make let me know your thoughts in the comment section