6 Things to Know When Switching to Linux from Windows
6 Things to Know When Switching to Linux from Windows
From the video:
1- Linux is different than Windows
1- Linux is different than Windows
2- Don't focus on Distribution
3- Misinformation in Old Linux Forums
4- great communities in Linux
5- "Unique" Personalities
6- Free and Open Software
Linux is fundamentally different than Windows, the best example of this is when I first came on Linux I was constantly going to the website of the software that I wanted in seeing if I could download a package from then to install it in Linux.
It's such a simple thing, but every Linux distribution has a package manager built in and that package manager is just as simply hey install xyz package and then install it simple fast secure, just so much better than how it's done on Windows, but it takes a little bit of retweeting your mindset to really grasp this idea.
Another thing where it's fundamentally different is everything can be customized, you don't like the file explorer in Linux install, no problem change it, you don't like the way your desktop works, change it, you don't like your browser and all these other things, you just change it.
In Windows you're pretty much stuck with how those menus operate, how the system setting and everything appears, all these are already bake into Windows or a very static, you can't change them well..
Everything in Linux is dynamic, and you can change it.. so that brings us two points:
the distribution doesn't matter, the only thing a distribution is different package managers, different ways to install those apps.. and how your desktop environment operates (KDE / Ubuntu / Mangaro, Linux Mint ..)
I recommended like Linux Mint, it has more of that Windows look and feel out of the box, so you won't be quite as lost, but just know it is the customization of Linux that makes it so powerful..
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