Xubuntu is more than fine. Tbh it doesn’t hugely matter which distro you use for this type of thing
Xubuntu is more than fine. Tbh it doesn’t hugely matter which distro you use for this type of thing
Honestly if you buy a Mac give macOS a try. It’s Unix based so you’ll feel at home in the command line. It doesn’t come with a command line package manager but there are two popular ones you can install (homebrew and macports).
Unfortunately it really doesn’t. And it’s actually Linux that’s the bigger problem: whenever it decides to updates GRUB it looks for OSes on all of your drives to make grub entries for them. It also doesn’t necessarily modify the version of grub on the booted drive.
Yes I’m sure there’s a way to manually configure everything perfectly but my goal is a setup where I don’t have to constantly manually fix things.
My experience was that the school provided free Windows keys for a personal computer if you needed one (they didn’t provide the computer itself) but the majority of computers I interacted with on campus (mostly in the computer lab) were Linux (some Debian variant iirc). I think the printing computers in the library were windows. I took an art class at one point and they had Macs (it was for using the Apple’s Final Cut Pro).
We never used LibreOffice though. Everyone just uses Google Drive.
What I want in $HOME
are the following directories:
If I’m on a GUI-based environment:
In general:
I’d like everything else to live within something like ~/.local thanks
/home is for every program to store its personal junk in hidden files apaprently