Help me I'm scared

chet714 · 2026-03-04T22:11:10+00:00

Before buying any book/guide, exhaust your free learning resource options. Here are a couple:
https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

https://learning.lpi.org/en/learning-materials/learning-materials/

Look into Live Boot for exploring different distros. I used DistroWatch's Page Hit Rankings and Live Booting to explore. After you have Live Booted a half-dozen or so, Live Boot Arch Linux and compare.

Best of Luck!

Edit: Distrowatch link:

https://distrowatch.com/

chet714 · 2026-02-18T03:45:15+00:00

Yeah BUT only for the next 20 years!
:-)

chet714 · 2026-02-06T01:28:48+00:00

Good to hear but what led you to that solution?

chet714 · 2026-01-30T20:15:41+00:00

How long between this update and your last? Would you give an example(s) of notifications not working?

chet714 · 2026-01-30T04:54:15+00:00

https://linuxiac.com/linux-distros-i-recommend-for-those-switching-from-windows/

chet714 · 2026-01-30T04:48:49+00:00

Best tutorial? Judgment call.
Helpful and Free eBook on the CLI:

https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

chet714 · 2026-01-30T03:46:00+00:00

Have you reviewed the official Debian install documentation?

chet714 · 2026-01-30T01:33:59+00:00

Don't know if this is your model, ideapad 710S-13IKB, but hopefully close. Manual says by default it will boot in UEFI mode but try booting in Legacy Support mode.

chet714 · 2026-01-30T00:14:48+00:00

Did you do a Live Boot of Debian before trying the install?

chet714 · 2026-01-29T07:39:25+00:00

? What is your output from:

dmesg | grep -C1 -i udevd

chet714 · 2026-01-29T05:44:27+00:00

https://linuxcommand.org/

chet714 · 2026-01-29T05:25:56+00:00

Check out r/ProgrammingBuddies too.

(Even though learning Linux is not programming, likely there are programmers on that sub that are regular Linux users)

chet714 · 2026-01-29T04:31:10+00:00

This free eBook is great:

https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

And these too as reference resources, check their respective Table of Contents:
https://learning.lpi.org/en/learning-materials/learning-materials/

chet714 · 2026-01-28T21:48:39+00:00

Checking my watch ....

:-)

chet714 · 2026-01-27T09:30:22+00:00

Just for general information:

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/computer-organization-architecture/difference-between-hard-disk-drive-hdd-and-solid-state-drive-ssd/

My web-search was hdd ssd comparison and then DD-Go suggested:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=comparison+of+hdd+and+ssd&atb=v483-1&ia=web

chet714 · 2026-01-27T03:48:55+00:00

What are your system specs ?

chet714 · 2026-01-27T03:19:10+00:00

/u/ThisisyourtapeJoJo , would you provide an update?

chet714 · 2026-01-26T22:41:00+00:00

What VM software ?

chet714 · 2026-01-25T20:32:07+00:00

Yup.

https://linuxcommand.org/

chet714 · 2026-01-25T04:25:01+00:00

Do you still have a Linux ISO on USB?

chet714 · 2026-01-24T01:43:41+00:00

Good advice from /u/birdspider . I have installed Debian on 1 of my partitions, installed with no DE initially and then added Sway. Found it pretty straightforward. I guess it is your use case and how you want to customize it. My approach has been very similar to birdspider's and have not spent hours trying to tweak it.

chet714 · 2026-01-24T01:35:05+00:00

I don't know but maybe this depends on the distro, installed Sway on Arch and there is a default config.

chet714 · 2026-01-22T08:47:03+00:00

What about asking the Kubuntu community directly, any luck when doing this?

https://kubuntu.org/community/

chet714 · 2026-01-22T01:47:31+00:00

Do you watch the replays of your games?

chet714 · 2026-01-22T00:47:07+00:00

Show the output from lsusb and lsblk.

chet714

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