Lolwhat? It is the same in any distro: adding the repo and installing the app.
bizdelnick
joined 1 year ago
This wiki article contains the information you need. It can seem too long, but I highly recommend to read it.
You don't have to do everything through terminal. You can use synaptic for example. What you have to do is to learn new concepts. If you want to do everything like in windows, use windows.
Yes, it is. You can achieve the same usung GUI of course, but this would be more difficult to describe because there are multiple GUIs and they change with new distro versions.
This is more convenient than "downloading and intalling" a file because you don't have to track updates manually, the package manager will do this for you. You have to read something about what package manager is and how does it work. It is the main concept of all linux distros except LFS.
Thank you, I forgot this.
I don't like the idea of configuring pm (or anything else) using a programming language. So I would try nix first if I feel that I need it. However I don't.
You forgot cowsay.
Yes, but for a very specific case. I used to write highly portable scripts that could be executed in different environments (various linux distros, including minimal containers, freebsd and even solaris 10). I couldn't use bash, perl, python and even gawk. Only POSIX shell (I always tested my scripts with dash and ksh93, for solaris 10 compatibility - with its jsh), portable awk (tested with original-awk, gawk and mawk) and portable sed (better forget it if you need to support solaris).
Before that I didn't understand why should I need awk if I know perl. And awk really sucks. Once I had to replace a perl one-liner with an awk script of ~30 lines for portability.
P.S. I never use awk just for print $1 as many do. It's an overkill.
Multicast.
I don't think that formula is the right tool to do this. You need to write a macro.
Try asking at !libreoffice@lemmy.ml
Brand does not matter. You will likely get in trouble with any new laptop model. Install the latest kernel, and probably most of them will be gone. But some can be fixed only after a year or so.
My Dell with preinstalled Ubuntu had a fingerprint scanner not working, wifi chip losing connection and disabled "subwoofer" (lol). After a year or two of upgrading a distro everything works (well, I mapped subwoofer output in config and idk if this still needed or not).
I don't recommend using anything new to you unless you are ready to learn it. If you are, welcome aboard!