Hello, I am very interested in coding and I am starting a training to become a web developer at wild code school (Biarritz, France).
Coding is just fun 😜
+1 to the suggestion to try a few distros before installing. You can install to a VM if you want to test over a few days; but for a quick look you can also boot many straight off a USB drive.
In fact I always have a USB drive with Linux installed at the ready. On a couple of occasions I've had an OS (usually Windows) fail to boot because of corrupted files; and been able to boot Linux from USB to access the drive and either fix things or recover my files.
You have no idea how much you'll learn and how much you were missing. A lot of nerdy fun is ahead :) welcome. And as a quick unsolicited advice, don't worry to much about your first distro, just pick one easy to install and that looks nice to you, you'll probable try a lot of them until you find your right one. Avoid choice paralisis: Mx, Ubuntu, Mint or other. Just like a cold shower, don't overthink it, in time you'll realize that the distro is not that important.
One bit, to that end: when given the choice, choose to put your home mount on a separate partition. Trust me - the extra couple clicks will be worth it in the long run.
That's a good advice, but I think that is relevant for the 2nd install, in my experience the first install is just to feel the waters, change the wallpaper, browse the installed SW, checking out some configs. After a week or less is to checkout about Linux, alternatives to knowns SW, maybe play a bit with the terminal, feel like a hacker (is part of the process, we all got through it), find it kinda weird for a while. Then maybe a month into it and after checking all the "best distro to ... 2019" you'll probably install a couple of distros after anything worth saving is done, in that case you can just throw it in a usb drive. When you understan partitions you'll naturally move things around, to have a separate /home from the start is hard because you have no idea of how much you need, how to split your space. For me the first install should be in its own drive, default settings, as simple as possible and hopefully in a secondary machine, no fear to lose anything, first install, just play and mess with it. Basic knowledge comes almost by osmosis. After that you'll figure it out your next step, mine was go directly, from Mandrake to Gentoo, probably not a recommended path to everyone.
welcome aboard. Make sure you try it in virtual box so that you will get a basic understanding of how things work before actually booting it as an Os so as not to break the system or suffer a data loss .(This is quite a newbie trend , happend to me too)
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Great post, I'm going to drop Windows for linux. I'm convinced
+1 to the suggestion to try a few distros before installing. You can install to a VM if you want to test over a few days; but for a quick look you can also boot many straight off a USB drive.
In fact I always have a USB drive with Linux installed at the ready. On a couple of occasions I've had an OS (usually Windows) fail to boot because of corrupted files; and been able to boot Linux from USB to access the drive and either fix things or recover my files.
You have no idea how much you'll learn and how much you were missing. A lot of nerdy fun is ahead :) welcome. And as a quick unsolicited advice, don't worry to much about your first distro, just pick one easy to install and that looks nice to you, you'll probable try a lot of them until you find your right one. Avoid choice paralisis: Mx, Ubuntu, Mint or other. Just like a cold shower, don't overthink it, in time you'll realize that the distro is not that important.
One bit, to that end: when given the choice, choose to put your home mount on a separate partition. Trust me - the extra couple clicks will be worth it in the long run.
That's a good advice, but I think that is relevant for the 2nd install, in my experience the first install is just to feel the waters, change the wallpaper, browse the installed SW, checking out some configs. After a week or less is to checkout about Linux, alternatives to knowns SW, maybe play a bit with the terminal, feel like a hacker (is part of the process, we all got through it), find it kinda weird for a while. Then maybe a month into it and after checking all the "best distro to ... 2019" you'll probably install a couple of distros after anything worth saving is done, in that case you can just throw it in a usb drive. When you understan partitions you'll naturally move things around, to have a separate /home from the start is hard because you have no idea of how much you need, how to split your space. For me the first install should be in its own drive, default settings, as simple as possible and hopefully in a secondary machine, no fear to lose anything, first install, just play and mess with it. Basic knowledge comes almost by osmosis. After that you'll figure it out your next step, mine was go directly, from Mandrake to Gentoo, probably not a recommended path to everyone.
my 2 cents...
welcome aboard. Make sure you try it in virtual box so that you will get a basic understanding of how things work before actually booting it as an Os so as not to break the system or suffer a data loss .(This is quite a newbie trend , happend to me too)