I just tell them to google first thing to do after installing Fedora and say “follow the guide except ‘fastest mirror’ just ignore.” Hasn’t failed anyone yet, and since I didn’t have anyone to help me it is what I did when I was new, except I’ve learned the fastest mirror part since then, so I pass along that knowledge.

Actually I think I may try and write up a script that’ll do all this for them, and make it even easier. I already have like half of it in my “new install” script but they don’t need all my packages.

I do recommend Fedora. It’s what I started on (besides tails) and after a couple years I’ve moved to FedoraKDE.

Soft shell tacos are my favorite. Hard shell is ok but there’s nothing like a double wrapped soft taco.

Oh and I just use bash.

That’s what palemoon is for. It wouldn’t be my first choice, but if you don’t have the RAM to run crysis librewolf on high it’ll work.

duke nukem forever

My life has two eras, pre- and post- awakening to this acronym. Updates will never be the same.

My “budget” until my new laptop was “hey you just got a new pc? What was wrong with your old one? Slow as hell? Can I buy it cheap and tinker?”

Friends/family always give me the best price especially when they think it’s just “too old” and think I’m crazy, they don’t know the problem is windows.

Look into installing a custom ROM, some phones are not supported but many are by at least one custom ROM. I personally installed GrapheneOS and recommend that or calyxOS (never used it but hear good things) but those are only available for pixels, iirc LineageOS has the widest support but also isn’t quite as secure. F-droid and Aurora store for apps.

Tbh Fedora can be harder, or you can click “automatic” and let it fly lol.

Actually I was trying to set it up the way I was used to with the custom-blivet option like 2 days ago to upgrade to 40 and it wouldn’t let me install because of some firmware or kernel bug (the error was unhelpful), so I tried auto and it worked! Not sure if it’s because this laptop is dying though, and I have a framework coming in the next few weeks so who cares, but auto worked when custom wouldn’t!

My dude, thanks for this. I’ve been using && for a long time now but never knew the rest, I’m still pretty new to linux comparatively.

For me, for some packages, only the RPM works, and others only the flatpak works, and yet others still both work, or none. Seems highly dependant on something but tbh I’m too new to know if it’s the packages themselves, something to do with dependencies, hardware, or whatever else.

Try ctrl+shift+v, iirc in the terminal ctrl+v is used as some other shortcut (and probably has been since before it was standard for “paste” I’d bet).

Also linux uses two clipboards iirc, the ctrl+c/v and the right click+copy/paste are two distinct clipboards.

If your system is borked sometimes you can boot into those and fix it. I’m not yet good enough to utilize that myself though, I’m still fairly new to linux too.