new to forums and linux

[Alien8predator]

Hello All,
I'm new to the forums and to linux.I'm from the Netherlands, I work fulltime as a helpdesk employee and I study in my free time. I've decided I want to get some linux knowledge and once I'm totally adjusted to linux to totally switching over. Cuz Ive gotten bored and tired of the same old windows stuff. I thought this would be another good place to look for answers since everything about linux is still a bit confusing. See you all later.

[GNU-Fan]

Hello and welcome aboard,

in my opinion, this transitional phase is a very good way to enter GNU/Linux.
I did the same. Every day I tweaked exactly one think that bothered me until my Debian has become the system I dreamed of after a couple of weeks.
So Windows could be dismissed at that point.

It is much more relaxed when you have a familiar operating system to fallback to during this period.

[Alien8predator]

I'm not running dual boot at the moment, just using vmware server. I'll be thinking of doing dual boot later. I still have problems like that my soundcard won't work, and not sure if my wireless will if I do a dual, cuz now it's just using the same connection my windows is, and cant get my scroll to work on my mouse. and still having a hard time how to do things. like you can install things several ways on commandline, and running deb files. Is there like a userguide for the commandline, that is understandable and that I wont have to memerize in order to run and use linux on the commanline terminal?

[sagnik]

Hi, I am a newbie to linux too. It's fun using linux once you get the hang of it so just take your tme to explore. About the userguide, you can type 'help' in the console, it will display a list of commands annd what they do. You can do it every time so you won't have to memorize anything. Hope this helps. Best of luck.

[ryokimball]

Actually, one of the smartest computer people I know lives in the netherlands (he's here, but I'll be nice and ask permission before I shout out names).
And as a matter of fact, this is the first forum I think I ever really got into myself, and I can say it's a great place to learn about both Linux and forum use!
Have fun

[andriagutama]

Hi,
I'm not a newbie in linux, but new in 'fall-for-linux' ,
I have used mandrake,mandriva,suse,centOS,fedora and know stuck in Ubuntu,
And i agree with you all that this site is good for study in deep about linux and other open source software,

have fun too

[Cabhan]

Howdy and welcome to the forums! Before I switched, I ran a dual-boot as well, but after a few months, I realized that I simply hadn't booted into Windows for a really long time. So I erased it. It's easier than you think .

But this is a great community and a great forum, so I hope you enjoy it here!

[Manchunian]

Welcome!

My story's similar to Cabhan's: I dual booted for a while, and used Windows less and less as I got more used to Linux. It got to the point where my wife would boot into Windows and I would boot into Linux. Guess who got a virus? So, rather than re-installing Windows, I erased it completely and I've never looked back!

[andriagutama]

yeah!!!!

now you are free

very brave of you, until now, i still cant leave windows because i'm very love adobe photoshop and corel draw......

windows, can't do anything right but you cant live without him

[Manchunian]

Well, you can live without Windows, but sometimes it requires a little effort. Photoshop, for example, will work in Linux thanks to WINE. As for Corel Draw, I can't say. However, remember that practically everything that runs on Windows has a Linux equivalent. Also, I'm convinced that software publishers are going to release stuff for Linux more and more in the future as this excellent operating system becomes increasingly popular.