Every other forum has rules about these posts because there’s such a glut of them, and yes, I could go read a stickied thread elsewhere, but here I am not doing that.

How would someone with no computer skills get acquainted with the OS? What version would you recommend to the hopeless novice? Can I keep windows on my PC and run the new OS or a practice version of it in a partitioned space while I learn? Can someone with minimal skills/time/patience be happy with a unix-like OS?

  • @tempestuousknaveOP
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    21 year ago

    Just wanted to thank you for the informative and accessible content. The links really helped my understanding of the subject.

    • tartar
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      1 year ago

      heh, thanks but really all the credit should go to the wikipedians and others who put all this information on the open web. i’ve learned a lot just by reading technical info online, even though i’m barely a programmer at all and know much less than i’d like