Marko---really liked the pleasant and balanced reply---excellent!
LinuxTyro---glad to see you replying to all the posts, keeping engaged, and
having an open mind.
From: Linux Tyro <fedora....@gmail.com>
To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
>Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2011 3:56 AM
>Subject: Re: windows migrant: choosing linux distribution
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>On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 4:22 AM, Marko Vojinovic <vvma...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>(1) WELCOME to the Linux community!
>>
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>Thanks.
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>(2) Don't hesitate to ask for help. This mailing list is a great resource of
>>information and is followed by people who are seasoned linux users, as well as
>>freshmen. That said, don't get offended by some nervous people telling you to
>>"do your homework", point you to lmgtfy.com, and such. We have all been
>>beginners once, and those who cannot tolerate beginner's questions should not
>>be taken too seriously. ;-)
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>Yes, that really is good thing, beginners like me sometimes could ask some
>silly questions (it may be due to not use of Linux ever) but always happy to
>get the answer.
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>(3) It's actually a good idea to do your own research before asking a question
>>here. Look up the topic in google, search the mailing list archives, read a
>>man page (those are the "instruction manuals" for a whole bunch of stuff in
>>Linux), etc. Expect a learning curve, regardless of the distro you choose.
>>Some things that are trivial in Windows (like, play mp3 music) are quite
>>nontrivial in Fedora (only the first time you try it, of course), and vice
>>versa. The difference between Windows and Linux is not just the security,
>>names
>>and price. Migrating to Linux means that you need to change your way of
>>*thinking* about how a computer can or should be used.
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>For example, the idea of graphical user interface (a GUI) in Linux is just a
>>commodity that is sometimes frowned upon. In contrast to Windows, where GUI is
>>the *only* user interface available, in Linux mostly everything can be done on
>>the command line (the CLI, or shell prompt, or console, or...). Learning to
>>use it is one of the best ways to learn Linux. In Windows the "MS-DOS Prompt"
>>is basically a thing of ancient history, and has no serious function in the
>>system. This is just one of the *conceptual* differences you are about to
>>encounter. Filesystem permissions and "don't log in as root" is another. If
>>you have used only Windows so far, your complete knowledge about computers is
>>about to be challenged, and you should expect that and embrace it.
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>I agree with you. I came to know that how Windows used to ties the
hands, even without using Linux. However, I am not from technical field
of softwares, and also was not Windows admin or something like that, but
still with a great surety claim that Linux is Linux, Windows is nothing
in front of it - in any aspect you can compare.
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>Finally, the choice of actual distro to start learning is quite immaterial.
>>Any will do. What you should plan, however, is the strategy to stick to some
>>distro for a while (say, 6 months), and then switch to another, in order to
>>compare and learn what is the same and what is distro-specific. It doesn't
>>really matter where you start from... ;-)
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>Yes, perhaps any distro would give me the basics of Linux.
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