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Linux 101 stuff. Questions are encouraged, noobs are welcome!

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Hi!

I’m a long time Mac user, but I want to set up a laptop or mini desktop (something not too old but powerful enough for image editing, really just for photography workflow), and try a Linux distro with FOSS tools for this purpose. I’m done with Adobe.

I’d like to scale one day to having a NAS of some kind.

I’ve experimented with Ubuntu before but it felt a little noddy, I just didn’t like it. Any recommendations? I’d like something with a decent community that would tolerate my noob questions.

Many thanks.

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[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Linux Mint. It’s a great intro to Linux. When you’ve got your feet under you — which won’t take long coming from Mac — try Debian or another distro to find the perfect fit.

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Second Linux Mint. I've tried a bunch of distros and DE for about a decade, and have always returned to Linux Mint. It's intuitive, the installer is easy, and the OS just works.

[–] foofiepie 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve heard about Mint and it seems to have a good rep. My tech lead at work recommends it. I’ll look into all of these.

Dummy question but, I assume the commands/syntax across Mac terminal and whatever the bash/shell equivalent are similar/same?

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know anything about Mac, but hopefully someone else can provide a helpful response.

[–] BURN@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Fairly close. Basic operation will still be the same, there may be specific commands that don’t work, but in most places they’re called out

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