I have an old Subnotebook (at least 10 years old I think) which runs Windows 7 atm. I would like to run Linux on it. I‘m a Linux noob, but would like to try and learn a few things. Any recommendations?

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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    You’re way too deep in the linux world

    Yep.

    beginners

    Beginners need to learn anyways, why not skip the “not-for-beginners stuff” and go all in? :)

    • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.world
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      Overwhelming beginners with more than they can chew is not the best way to welcome them to Linux, giving them the chance to learn a bit at a time is instead.

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      Beginners need to learn anyways, why not skip the “not-for-beginners stuff” and go all in?

      Because most people will likely want something that works out of the box so they can learn over time

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      I tried a couple distros on VMs (mint xfce, Manjaro i3…) because I want to eventually resurrect my old laptop and I was trying stuff out.

      Tried installing Arch in another VM this year. The regular instructions were complicated and I didn’t follow them because too much work. Tried using arch installer and couldn’t. Had to install arch installer (???) from the boot command line. But it gave me a keyring error as well. Idk how I solved that but eventually got through.

      Then I had it functioning for some days. One day I try to turn the VM back on and it just doesn’t boot. I’m sorry arch, I love you but it wasn’t meant to be.