You know, there are times when Movie Night Adrian's sense of humour does get slightly ahead of me …
Slightly …
He’s managed to give me an old — antique, almost — laptop, to see if he can't talk me into the rather large job of updating my skills base.
By learning a little light hacking.
Slightly …
He’s managed to give me an old — antique, almost — laptop, to see if he can't talk me into the rather large job of updating my skills base.
By learning a little light hacking.
And associated … stuff …
And to start me off on that ... ?
Suggested I install the very light weight Arch Linux distribution onto it.
Which I've got to admit, is a bint intimadating, as the actual installation is all done in Terminal.
Which is not something I'm going to recommend for all of us: I think I, like many, am more comfortable with a Graphical User interface.
So installing Arch on this laptop - the very one I'm writing this on - was a bit of a job.
A fast one, though, with little or no actual GUI: I LIKE GUI’s, I really do!
But Adrian's very valid point?
Was that learning how to troubleshoot Linux distros like Ubuntu and others could well involve a lot of exactly this sort of command line usage.
Now, if you'll excuse me … ?
I've some reading to do …
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