Recently I wrote a post about wanting to get my Linux+ certification. If you haven’t read that, please do, you can find it here. The way my brain works with technology, I have to jump in and start using it and that’s exactly what I did.
I follow Chris Titus on youtube, frankly the man is a genius and give a ton of great IT info. I watched a bunch of his videos about Linux, downloaded some ISO’s and jumped in. With a spare SSD of course.
I ran through a bunch of distros because I wanted to find something that worked well from the start, no distro hoping. After trying several different ones I ended up running the “Granddaddy of them all”, Debian. Part of the reason for this was a recommendation in one of those videos about installing the base system (no GUI) and going from there. When I went that route Debian was just so much easier to work with. Once installed the customization was a breeze. To be honest, I only really use a handful of apps, most of my work is done in browser really.
Now that I have been using it as my daily use machine, my thoughts are:
After a week I am fairly confident in my setup, it seems to be working well with really only a few shortcomings that aren’t too hard to get around. As a Windows Admin the one real complaint I have for daily use is Powershell. I am a big fan of Powershell and I have it installed on Debian, but its not native and so it doesn’t work quite as well. The solution is easy though, just remote to an admin machine and script there.
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