You mean if he has some malicious script that wants to install something or run something it’s not going to adjust ask him “do you want to install x?”

As an IT Technician/Sysadmin I highly recommend you use the one your IT team told you to use. If you run into issues they’ll be able to help but not if your using some obscure app they’ve never heard of.

It should be ok because nothing will run on your system without a permission prompt at least. So they that should ring some bells of system is asking for your password when you didn’t try to install anything.

But best practice would be log in as a regular user and use sudo to do any admin tasks.

Definitely. I use Timeshift on Linux Mint Debian Edition and set it to take weekly snapshots. Saved my bacon about 2 weeks ago when a kernel update borked my system.

Lollypop. Simple interface that shows me album art. I can’t always remember band names or artist names but I know what the damn album cover looks like 👍

Bro, I’m an IT Support Technician and Sysadmin by profession. Trust me when I tell you the average user has never seen the command line.

Move a shortcut on their desktop and they freak out because they think the pc deleted all their work. No way in hell they would touch a terminal.

The average Windows user doesn’t know what a terminal is, let alone use it. Whereas in Linux every user knows what a terminal is and has used it at least a handful of times.

Some distros don’t have an app store, just the terminal.

This is not the only way to install apps but as a Linux user there will be times when you will need to use the terminal. Might as well know that from now.

The instructions they gave are really simple and straightforward. If you struggle with that, you may want to learn a bit about the terminal.

But since you’re on Ubuntu there is a much easier way: go to Mullvad downloads page and download the deb file. Double click it and the Ubuntu App Store should open and install it. If not, open the App Store and search for gdebi and install it. Now right click the deb you downloaded, and click “open with…” and choose gdebi from the list.

It should check dependencies and give you an “install” button. Click that and wait for it to finish. Then simply launch Mullvad as normal.

In general on Linux you install apps by looking in the distro repo: either by searching the App Store or by using the terminal.

To do it from the terminal type:

1. ‘sudo apt update’. Enter your password.

2. After it’s updated type 'apt search [name of app] and press enter. It will give you a list of apps with that name. Eg apt search lollypop (a music player). Then if you see it listed, you know it’s in the repo.

3. To install it type ‘sudo apt install lollypop’ and press enter. It will tell you how large it is and if you want to install it. Type “y” and press enter. It will finish it in a few seconds.

Done. Launch the app as normal.

There is also something called Flatpak’s which you can get from flathub.com You will also find instructions there on how to install flatpak on your system but typing a few commands.

Welcome to Linux. You’ll either embrace and love it or abandon it.

Who cares? Just use Twitter. Anyone who is anyone is on twitter.

You forgot to add different types of Terminals…

Undoubtedly Wayland is the way forward and I think it’s a good thing. However I wouldn’t piss all over X because it served us well for many years. My LMDE 6 still runs X and probably will for the next 2 years at least because both the Mint Team and Debian team don’t rush into things. They are taking it slow, testing Wayland to make sure no-one’s system breaks when they switch to Wayland.

This is the best approach. Eventually it will all be Wayland but I never understood why this is such an issue. Like any tech it’s progress, no need for heated debates. It’s just a windowing system after all.

Excellent. Being able to install a fresh OS at will is one of the many fun things in Linux. Theming is another. I would advise you do a backup of anything important on Windows and just erase the entire disk and do a clean install of Linux. If you still need Windows, install Virtualbox and install Windows as a VM. Best of both worlds. I do this to enable me to print to my Canon printer because the Linux drivers don’t work ,it needs Windows to print, calibrate etc.

Manjaro. Because it blank screened in the first update after installation. Never touched it again.

Google Keep is fine. I also use it for short notes which I can access on the go and it’s been reliable for years now.

I just don’t like the layout of the notes all in squares. I’d prefer the option of a regular compact list view

I love it! The more the better

To be honest I hardly use it. I’m on Linux Mint Debian Edition and the built in updater does a great job. So I find myself never using the terminal

In the article someone mentioned Upnote (https://getupnote.com/) and it looks very good. Cross platform work sync. 50 notes in the free version and 99 cents a month for premium. Cross platform too.

As for me I wanted a more simple note taking app so I use Notesnook. I’m using the free version but there is a paid version. Includes sync on all versions and is cross platform.

It’s 50/50. The last Enterprise I worked at they would NEVER agree to pay that. They’d rather get new machines

It will be mostly Enterprise upgrading. The average consumer buys the cheapest laptop they can get. They won’t be upgrading. I think nowadays not many average consumers even use computers. They just do everything on a phone.

You can charge for FOSS.(Free Open Source Software). The “fee” stands for “freedom”. It preserves the users right to freely inspect the code, modify it, re-use it and even sell it on unmodified or modified.

But you certainly can charge for it.