I’m working on a some materials for a class wherein I’ll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we’re including a section we’re calling “foot guns”. Basically it’s ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers.
I’ve got the usual forgetting the . in lines like this:
$ rm -rf ./bin
As well as a bunch of other fun stories like that one time I mounted my Linux home folder into my Windows machine, forgot I did that, then deleted a parent folder.
You know, the war stories.
Tell me yours. I wanna share your mistakes so that they can learn from them.
Fun (?) side note: somehow, my entire ${HOME}/projects folder has been deleted like… just now, and I have no idea how it happened. I may have a terrible new story to add if I figure it out.
Then what’s a good beginner distro that uses kde and doesn’t break all the time?
Fedora Kinoite, the best :D
Literally the only KDE distro I can recommend. KDE needs updates at good pace, as they introduce tons of features with their breakages.
Meanwhile Fedora is pretty tested. There is Rawhide which is super rolling and testing.
Then you have the current release, the old supported release and (with 40 currently) the upcoming branched prerelease.
If you always stay on the old release, i.e. Fedora 38 (you should upgrade to 39 now) packages are a bit more stable.
And the atomic model is the best. I want to write a more detailed post about it, but is worlds better than OpenSUSE microOS or the other experiments (VanillaOS, EndlessOS) which you can also see by the tons of variants/images there are
These are literally all different variants of Fedora, which you can install and enjoy a tailored experience.
You should try Aurora which is the “special ublue variant” with the KDE Plasma desktop.