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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Sometimes a good way to 'learn Linux' is to use a WM (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I have been using Linux for about 5 years and although I don't consider that I know much, I know enough to fix my own problems and that's usually enough for me.

Since Plasma 6 was announced I wanted to test something other than XFCE, Gnome or Plasma (or any DE) so I give it a try with ArcoLinuxD i3wm and is increible the amount of things I learn the 'hard way' because there was no GUI to do the things I want to do, or maybe I was too lazy to do it with the terminal since there is always the 'easy way'.

Things that might be very easy for a lot of people, but I never take the time to learn, like mounting drives, running programs from startup, setting environment variables, creating desktop entries, and a lot of other things I didn't even remember. I even learned to use things that used to give me a headache just looking at it, like Vim, xdg, the Archwiki (that is super useful) and the manpages.

It's ironic because something that started as an experiment is now my daily drive, and now that Plasma 6 has been released, I don't want to leave i3 behind.

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[–] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This is why there will never be a “year of the Linux desktop”

They dislike this comment just because of this. This statement is correct.

Linux kernel's code quality is not comparable to any BSD's kernel. GNU userland is not as clean as BSD's userland so Chimera Linux existed.

because it’s developers insist on doing everything “the hard way”

true, true

I'm so lucky that WINE and virtualbox is so hard on "newbie distros" that I would never use windows application on linux.

When I switch to BSD I always read man pages and find the docs to resolve my problems. Never did that on Linux.

In an ideal OS you never have to learn to do things the hard way because the easy way works just as well without starting a new career in Linux programming.

Do you think FreeBSD and OpenBSD already met this requirement :)?