Suggestion for better beginner
Posted: 2019-07-18 12:42
Hello Debian community. Not sure if I am posting in the right subforum, but here goes.
I've recently decided to dual boot my system with Windows and Linux. A few years back, I experimented with Linux Mint, and really liked it, but encountered an unrelated problem on my pc, so had to remove it.
In the interim, I learned a few things about Ubuntu and it's derivatives that I am not crazy about, so opted to go with something else. I settled on Debian. I like it's philosophy and stability.
Got it installed with ease, but once I fired it up, I discovered it is beyond my skill level at this point, and I am going to have to go with something else at this time.
To summarize, I have not been able to get it to access my wifi. I can only connect to the internet wired. I have looked at and tried to follow a lot of the guides on the wiki here, and elsewhere on the internet, but have had no luck getting it to work. I find that the guides I have found seem to assume that a reader already has some basic Linux and terminal knowledge. Everything I have tried to do in the terminal it just says there is an error or some sort, or an unknown command.
At any rate, what I am looking for in this thread is some suggestions for a more user friendly beginner distro, that is not Ubuntu based. I'm considering Fedora or debians version on mint.
If it helps, what I liked about mint, was that it pretty much setup and installed all my hardware for me. I was able to go wireless right away with it. I liked the package manager, it was easy to navigate. Just about everything I did on the terminal was easy to understand and worked well.
Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
I've recently decided to dual boot my system with Windows and Linux. A few years back, I experimented with Linux Mint, and really liked it, but encountered an unrelated problem on my pc, so had to remove it.
In the interim, I learned a few things about Ubuntu and it's derivatives that I am not crazy about, so opted to go with something else. I settled on Debian. I like it's philosophy and stability.
Got it installed with ease, but once I fired it up, I discovered it is beyond my skill level at this point, and I am going to have to go with something else at this time.
To summarize, I have not been able to get it to access my wifi. I can only connect to the internet wired. I have looked at and tried to follow a lot of the guides on the wiki here, and elsewhere on the internet, but have had no luck getting it to work. I find that the guides I have found seem to assume that a reader already has some basic Linux and terminal knowledge. Everything I have tried to do in the terminal it just says there is an error or some sort, or an unknown command.
At any rate, what I am looking for in this thread is some suggestions for a more user friendly beginner distro, that is not Ubuntu based. I'm considering Fedora or debians version on mint.
If it helps, what I liked about mint, was that it pretty much setup and installed all my hardware for me. I was able to go wireless right away with it. I liked the package manager, it was easy to navigate. Just about everything I did on the terminal was easy to understand and worked well.
Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.