Pacman has the worst syntax of all package managers. pacman -Syyurape
apt is fine, and zypper is the friendliest, I think. It’s similar to apt, but has obvious two-letter abbreviations for commands. It also has nice coloring of the output.
This should be in your title. Your title sounds like you’re ripping off user data from Piefed in order to put ads on it.
This is why you have 60 downvotes and all these people calling you an unethical jerk.
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Different than what? You mean between Linux and Windows? No, but you can have them pre-install an OS of your choice.
Oh, I see. I did some looking and it seems it’s a lightweight, UEFI-only replacement for GRUB.
I installed it last Summer. Does that mean I’m currently running a different init system?
Does it actually list the packages that are suggested?
If a package is recommended, it gets installed by default. They’re not strictly necessary for the core functionality of the main package, but they are commonly used by many users.
On the other hand, suggested packages are like plugins. They won’t necessarily be important to most users, but some might find them handy. Things like alternate backends for specific use cases, or a plugin to enable a specific (and rarely used) service.
I haven’t used apt in a while, but I don’t think there’s a way to automatically install all suggested packages. I think you just install them manually by copying and pasting the package names, and running additional apt install commands.
But unless you know what specific usage you need before I probably wouldn’t bother.
I’ve tried nothing and I’m all out of ideas.
–cpu-moe
The joke is worth the slop, imo. “Cpu Moe”. 😂 Find me an anime drawing of a CPU (especially an iconic one) and I’ll use that instead.
How else are you going to rice your Debian install?
Well, my laptop only has one spot for a drive. I guess if you have more than one, it should work. The main point is never share a drive with Windows. Windows will mess it up.
Personally, I dual boot with an external NVMe drive. It works great! I have Linux and only Linux on the internal drive and Windows gets relegated to an external one.
The trick to getting it to work is: you have to temporarily install the NVMe drive internally in order to install Windows onto it. Then you pop it into an external enclosure and it just works. Just make sure your BIOS is set up to boot USB devices before internal drives.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has a GUI for almost everything. It has a nice GUI for basic system config, and uses YaST2 for deeper settings, and it uses Discover for Flatpaks as well as system library updates.
Although, I have seen a couple people say Discover shouldn’t be used for doing system updates because it can fail, and to only use it for Flatpak updates and installs. I dunno. But it’s not like typing sudo zypper dup to do a distro upgrade is hard, so I just do that out of an abundance of caution.
OpenSUSE has some other cool features too, like having Snapper installed by default for system snapshots. It’s pretty easy to roll back if an upgrade goes sideways. There’s a boot entry that lets you open a previous snapshot as read-only and then you can make that snapshot permanent by creating a new top-level snapshot from it. So then you can at least use your computer while you try to figure out why the upgrade you did failed.
You’ll probably want to use KDE as your desktop environment. It’ll be somewhat familiar if you’re use to Windows, and it has a lot of features that make it comfortable to use.
There are lots of good YouTube videos on why OpenSUSE is pretty cool. Check some out.
What do personally use G’MIC for?
The example screenshots all look gimmicky (heh) or super advanced scientific image processing.
I guess noise reduction is useful to the average user. Depends on how good it is.
Yeah, I use that, too. It might differ from DE to DE, but in KDE, there’s the normal clipboard, and then there’s the one for selections and middle-click. They don’t share the same contents by default, but you can enable that.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve accidentally pasted random private stuff from that goddamn middle click into WEB PAGES! Things that can read whatever text you type without having to explicitly submit anything. It’s a horrible thing for a new user to discover by accident. It’s such an unexpected feature to new users, and no one gets told about it, ever. You simply discover it by accident.
This is a good change, not having it on by default.
To all the haters of this idea, god forbid we make Linux less weird by default for people migrating from Windows.
All that said, I have learned to love select-to-copy and middle-click paste. Especially in the terminal.
In a folder called javpy, of course!
Yes, every distro requires a password for sudo. That’s the whole point of it. But editing .bashrc does not require sudo. You can add aliases and functions to .bashrc. A malicious script can append to .bashrc, and by doing so, it can alias sudo to be whatever command it wants. For instance, a malicious function. So the next time you run sudo it runs the malicious command, instead, which itself can act just like sudo and prompt you for your password. So now you just entered your password into a malicious function. Do you see the problem with this?
that’s the part that can keep malicious stuff out because it doesn’t have permission.
All a malicious script has to do is alias sudo in your .bashrc, and you’re fucked. The script can do that without privileges. It takes surprisingly little to go from “I’m only running this script without privileges” to getting totally owned immediately after.
Fix your title. The answer is “no”. People are getting the wrong idea.