Re: First time Linux user – Best distro to star t?

u should use a distro with .deb packages.

a deb is a sorte of zip file only ! but it know where the install put 
the files...so is a sort of king zip !!

u can install and desinstall softs...


with this game, for me, to day, if a where you, use linux mint ! now u 
have the version 22.3

they are more and more server with the iso distro !!!



https://mirror.hb9hil.org/mint/stable/


here u have the "bordel"

https://distrowatch.com/

may be 4 thansound distro in the human galaxie !


read in alt.os.linux.mint

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now with this century and PC, all want to be secure ! At home...

so, a example, i have a old tower PC, the graphic card a have
first, nvidia GPU...and, all work well, a tiny GT210 work fine
with " nouveau " driver...

the way boot is UEFI.

secure boot is off.

but, i do a uefi part format in fat32...i put and write well
the repertories...the files are in the good place...
i get only bootx64.efi (a quiet version shell uefi) and grubx64.efi 2.12
from the iso DVD linux mint 22.2.

so this time i don't use startup.sh files...beacause i respected the
séquence uefi boot...(BIOS, Part fat32, rep and files)

usualy, may be...u install your hard drive connected in sata and the
linux live is on a usb3.0 enclosure. i use this way. now, usb3.0, i
should find PC with native use 3.0.

but what append ? u have minimum 2 files...grub.cfg and...and...fstab !

so, if u need order for the kernel...put it in grub.cfg...i never 
desactivated "nouveau" acceleration ! realy...is the last way to startx 
fastly... 😉

the first and killed error is the uuid identification part in grub.cfg
and sure in fstab...why ? u know, the numbers is NOT the same if u boot
from a usb...and...the spec say...if u have a hard drive in sata, if the
sata is the ONE...this one is your hd0 for grub !

so...control with mint tool , use the live to control if boot is broken
control the uuid for the uefi part...sure...for the swap 
part...and...and the part where u have the Super Linux OS !!!

some example command syntaxe for the kernel

fsck.mode=skip pcie_aspm=off nvidia_drm.fbdev=1 quiet splash


but...u can have a surprise ! is the geek life u know ! don't
use quiet and splash first...step after step...control what u need,
control the nice and tiny line for grub... u don't see ro in this cfg 
isn't it ?


for fstab, we can see that for example

nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=1ms


u can hunderstand why !!!



for END, they are no the same PC for ALL, and may be sometime they are
some specifics problèmes.

my partition choice is not yours part drive ! so see well if OS is on 
/dev/sda2 or /dev/sda3

etc,etc...

good boot ;


here they are me !!! :o)
https://postimg.cc/user/german_castro



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good luck ?

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FreeMind Frenchy

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