This thread is where I’ll list all the things I learn about Linux before moving to it so that other users may refer to it if they want to move to Linux too.
I’ll start with listing open-source (or sometimes closed source) software that can be good to have on any Linux computer.
Average User Build
Antivirus Software: ClamAV
Audio Editing: Audacity
Drawing Software: Krita
eReader Manager: calibre
File Archiver: 7-Zip
Footage Editing: Kdenlive
Image Editing: GIMP
Media Format Converter: HandBrake
Media Player: VLC
Office Suite: OnlyOffice
Password Manager: KeePass 2
Recording Software: OBS Studio
Text Editor: Visual Studio Code
Web Browser: Firefox
Windows Compatibility Tool: Crossover
YouTube Downloader: YouTube-DLG
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DuckDuckGo
Gamer of All Trades Build
2FA Software: Authy
3D Editing: Blender
3D CAD: FreeCAD
Antivirus Software: ClamAV
Audio Editing: Audacity (or Tenacity?)
Chat Software: Discord (or Element?)
Drawing Software: Krita
Electronics CAD: KiCAD & Fritzing (the latter is for Arduino & Breadboard stuff)
eReader Manager: calibre
File Archiver: 7-Zip
Footage Editing: Kdenlive (there are others but they don’t have as many features)
Gaming Launcher: Steam (I’m a Valve fanboy)
Image Editing: GIMP
Media Format Converter: HandBrake
Media Player: VLC
Office Suite: LibreOffice (or OnlyOffice?)
Password Manager: KeePass 2
Recording/Streaming Software: OBS Studio
Text Editor: Visual Studio Code
Vectorial Image Editor: Inkscape
Virtual Machine Manager: Oracle VM VirtualBox (wait isn’t that the company behind Java?)
Web Browser: Firefox
Windows Compatibility Tool: Wine (or Crossover?)
YouTube Downloader: YouTube-DLG
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DuckDuckGo
Pro-Gamer Build
2FA Software: Authy
Antivirus Software: ClamAV
Audio Editing: Audacity
Chat Software: Discord
File Archiver: 7-Zip
Footage Editing: Kdenlive (there are others but they don’t have as many features)
Gaming Launcher: Steam (I’m a Valve fanboy)
Image Editing: GIMP
Media Format Converter: HandBrake
Media Player: VLC
Password Manager: KeePass 2
Recording/Streaming Software: OBS Studio
Text Editor: Visual Studio Code
Vectorial Image Editor: Inkscape
Virtual Machine Manager: Oracle VM VirtualBox (wait isn’t that the company behind Java?)
Web Browser: Firefox
Windows Compatibility Tool: Wine (or Crossover?)
YouTube Downloader: YouTube-DLG
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DuckDuckGo
Workstation of All Trades
3D Editing: Blender
3D CAD: FreeCAD
Antivirus Software: ClamAV
Audio Editing: Audacity (or Tenacity?)
Drawing Software: Krita
Electronics CAD: KiCAD & Fritzing (the latter is for Arduino & Breadboard stuff)
File Archiver: 7-Zip
Footage Editing: Kdenlive (there are others but they don’t have as many features)
Image Editing: GIMP
Media Format Converter: HandBrake
Media Player: VLC
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Recording/Streaming Software: OBS Studio
Text Editor: Visual Studio Code
Vectorial Image Editor: Inkscape
Virtual Machine Manager: Oracle VM VirtualBox (wait isn’t that the company behind Java?)
Another detail to take into account is how the file system works in Linux.
/lib - Library that shares code with /bin and /sbin
/usr - Contains programs, much like "Program Files" in Windows
/bin - Binaries that are NOT for the OS and are intended to be used by the end-user
/local
/bin - Local binaries that are compiled by the end-user
/var - Contains logs and cache files
/tmp - Contains temporary files
/lost+found - Contains broken and corrupted files that have been repaired
/sys - Contains information about the computer and the drivers
/dev - Contains driver files
/mnt - Folder responsible for mounting devices temporarily or permanently
/run - Keeps track of what has happened since the computer has booted
/proc - Directory located in the RAM that keeps track of processes
/opt - Contains addon software [RARELY USED]
/srv - Contains files for server related stuff [RARELY USED]
/boot - Contains files necessary to boot the OS [MUST NOT BE TOUCHED!]
root known as '/'
Linux has a root directory inside of which everything is located. There is no drive letter like in Windows. If you have two hard drives, they will be both located inside the root directory. Only the root user (“admin”) has access to it.
/bin
Contains essential binaries for the OS and commands for all users.
/etc
Contains config files that the end-user can edit to modify the behaviour of different software.
/home
Contains a folder for every user.
/media
Contains file systems of any removable device currently plugged in such as USB keys and optical drives.
/sbin
Contains Binaries for the OS that must only be executed by the root user
I’ve started using Rhino-Linux in a virtual machine (VirtualBox) and I can’t install new software because whenever I try to do that through the terminal, it says that the /var directory is full. Firstly, why do directories have their own limited space? And secondly, how do I get out of this situation?
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aah31415
(The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)
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I am unsure if anybody else here ever used rhinolinux as it isn’t that popular of a distro.
Yeah, if you aren’t familiar with Linux already, I’d never recommend install anything outside the top 5 or top 10 most popular distros as you are going to run into weird issues with a less popular distro that doesn’t have online discussions on how to fix something.
On Fedora default install there’s 2 partitions made on your hard drive: root partition for system files, and user data partition (well actually 3 if you count the small boot partition). The root partition is by default configured to be pretty small to give more space for user data. Not sure what Rhino does but on fedora /var is on the root partition so it has access only to the root partition’s space. Though, newer Fedora versions use btrfs which no longer has the limitation of space, but for separation it still creates two logical btrfs volumes.
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aah31415
(The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)
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Guess then that’s an another large downside to the linux distro named after the horned animal.
aah31415
(The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)
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There surely are other purple distros around…
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Deathwake
(i nuked zenzone and will never let him forget it)
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You can change the color of a DE… I had cinnamon themed pretty purple-ish when I used it. Honestly though it takes too much effort to make a DE pretty with unpupular colors so I often take a pre-made theme of some kind and mess with it a tiny bit, but those rarely look good with colors like purple or something.
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aah31415
(The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)
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I can guess this can be as purple isn’t a color liked by many…
As long as you don’t have an NVidia GPU, Fedora just works. Though from what I’ve heard NVidia has made their drivers better in the past few years so it might actually be tolerable with an NVidia GPU now as well.
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aah31415
(The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)
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For NVidia GPUs, what used to be the distro best with them as Fedora seems to have not been all that great when working with such GPUs?
Which GPUs? Only like 5080 or 5090 has more VRAM than 7900 XTX? And the new AMD GPUs have much more VRAM for cheaper price than stingy Nvidia is willing to give.
