Oooh, hadn’t seen that, I’ll be giving it a watch today! Thanks!

Ha, sounds like an eye opening moment for the junior dev!

Yup!

telling users to mess with system settings in a way that will fuck up a lot of things up if you don’t know exactly what you’re doing.

In my head, this is the subtext of much linux info.

I appreciate both your responses, really awesome stuff!

Goddamn the linux community is good people.

Heya thanks so much for that explanation, took a couple read throughs and some thinking but I think I get it!

The time ans thought you put into that are much appreciated and so emblematic of the awesome nature of the linux world.

Thanks again!

I uhhh, just loaded Mint the other week. Any chance someone can English this for me?

Absolutely agree! It was amazing how much just worked.

I spent a lot of time tinkering and just having fun with all my settings etc. Though I did have to battle a little as my setup, which gave Windows headaches, is a little unusual. (Three screens, one is connected to a receiver and then to a tv, so the sound and third screen are connected. I’ve got it functional etc but am really looking forward to diving in and getting everything to work well!)

Thanks! I’m lucky and at home I have a pair of computers from work. And happily, had so few issues with the initially install that I didn’t really need to use them!

(That being said, absolutely great advice.)

Went with Mint as I was pretty nervous. Already thinking about which distro for my old laptops though…