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I'm going through everything in this thread, so don't get pissy if it's obvious to you.
==Chapter 1==
If you are on Windows make a bootable USB media with Rufus, if on Linux do it with unetbootin by first downloading an ISO.
Get an ISO of Debian here for the first step of freedom from tyranny.
If the USB stick is not recognized or booted into, then hit any key like "del" or whatever to get into BIOS setup menu.
Then change the boot priority to choose the USB stick to boot into the Debian installation stick.
Let the installation handle the partitioning automatically and use up the whole drive, preferably when you have nothing to lose in that drive.
Pick your localization options whatever you need, the same goes for the keyboard layout. If they're not found then don't worry, you can settle that
later. For the desktop environment I recommend picking XFCE or KDE, pick Gnome only if you're a masochist. The most important of all, now's the
time to setup your user and root passwords.
When you see your desktop for the first time, the most important step is to initiate your user account as a sudoer.
First type "su" to login as a root with the root password. Then access /etc/sudoers file with "vi /etc/sudoers/.
Here's a manual to vi or here. Wrap your head around that retarded nonsense then add "yourusername ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL" to the file.
The keybinds are fucktarded by nowadays standards, there are separate modes for command and insert, suffer through it.
If there's a reference to "cd-rom" whatever the fuck when running apt, then edit your "etc/apt/sources.list" with a word processor (kwrite, mousepad, geany) of your liking with sudo.
Mine looks like this, so feel free to just copy n paste after opening a text editor with sudo from the terminal emulator.
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
==Chapter 2==
Once you've pushed through you're pretty much done with the difficult part and now comes the fun stuff. Learn to use "dpkg" packet management with
a few simple commands to help yourself through. (remove the quotes an add a name of an app or a word to search).
-sudo apt-get install "application"
-sudo apt-get purge "application_you_want_to_remove"
-sudo apt-cache search "keyword_for_searching_the_repository_for_whatever"
-sudo apt-cache policy "application_that_you_want_to_check_if_it_has_been_installed_or_what_the_current_version_you_are_rocking_is"
-sudo apt-get update (updates your list from the /etc/apt/sources.list with the most recent packages available)
-sudo apt-get upgrade (upgrades your programs with the newer versions that the newest update points to, so do after running "sudo apt-get update")
don't forget to
-sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
because I know you're an old fuck who wants to run old software, then run
-sudo apt-get update
==Chapter 3==
If you pulled yourself through, you've pretty much made it. Now you can get to enjoy the benefits of having the freedom to do what you want with your shit computer.
Get accustomed with the terminal emulator. When pressing CTRL + C, you can close a program you are running from TE. If you press CTRL + D you can close the TE window.
It's called a terminal emulator, because it's Unix and it's supposed to be emulating the dinosaur days of the 70's terminals with its terminal emulators.
If you are running an Nvidia card, it's recommended to try installing "nvidia-driver" from the repository itself with a command instead of downloading it from their site.
AMD video card drivers are integrated with the Linux kernel itself if I'm not mistaken. No matter if you have problem with audio or not, installing pavucontrol is one step
I recommend for everyone. If there's no audio then keep adjusting shit with that and you should hear the sweet sound soon again.
==Chapter 4==
The home folder is now your new home. Adjust your file manager to show hidden folders, they start with dot, like .folder.
If you open a terminal emulator and type "cd --" it will take you to home folder, whereas "cd .." will take you of course to an upper folder.
Pretty much every program you install has manual pages, that can be invoked with -man "program" and every program takes flags in the form of single letters after "-" character or
names of files or whatever as arguments.
Get used to bash, there are many examples how you can automate things with bash. Like if you want to make things happen every hour or day, whatever there's this
thing called "cron job". You can google what you want about it and get to it. You can mass rename and mass re-edit things more easily with a one single command. Mass download
4chan threads or pictures with wget / curl scripts, or even sites and clone them for monetary gain.
When you run executables, or download them from sketchy sources but still want to run them run "sudo chmod +x" to make a file executable.
These are typically "AppImages" or files ending with the ".sh" suffix. The aforementioned command just makes them executable in your fancy system of access control.
You can easily make ".sh" files as well, whenever you want to run any just type "./retardedscriptwhatever.sh" in terminal emulator to do so, after applying the "sudo chmod +x".
If there's a statement about not having rights to edit or access a folder or file, then get comfy with the "chown" command.
If you have mountable media then press into your head the notion of how to properly mount things. For that "sudo /dev/sdb1" (or whatever is the case for the partition you want to mount is) and the directory you want to mount it in. This typically being well placed in /media/user/directory. For example I would use:
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/user/partition1/ [This is in case it's not mounted by the file manager by default.]
Get accustomed with TTY, this is your best friend if you've ran a fullscreen program locking you out of closing it. You can just easily press CTRL+ALT+FKEY and cycle between sessions with F-keys.
Don't get startled keep cycling through them and you will find your active session going through them. You can login as your user, type "htop" or install it to kill a program that is difficult to kill fullscreen. Not to mention you can run multiple sessions simultaneously that you can switch between with the powerful command of CTRL+ALT+Function Key. If you want a new desktop session just type "sudo startx" after logging in.
There's much more to it, but with these you'll get along just nice. Much better than being a Windows cuck and instead of becoming a vegan, why not give Linux a try?
==Chapter 1==
If you are on Windows make a bootable USB media with Rufus, if on Linux do it with unetbootin by first downloading an ISO.
Get an ISO of Debian here for the first step of freedom from tyranny.
If the USB stick is not recognized or booted into, then hit any key like "del" or whatever to get into BIOS setup menu.
Then change the boot priority to choose the USB stick to boot into the Debian installation stick.
Let the installation handle the partitioning automatically and use up the whole drive, preferably when you have nothing to lose in that drive.
Pick your localization options whatever you need, the same goes for the keyboard layout. If they're not found then don't worry, you can settle that
later. For the desktop environment I recommend picking XFCE or KDE, pick Gnome only if you're a masochist. The most important of all, now's the
time to setup your user and root passwords.
When you see your desktop for the first time, the most important step is to initiate your user account as a sudoer.
First type "su" to login as a root with the root password. Then access /etc/sudoers file with "vi /etc/sudoers/.
Here's a manual to vi or here. Wrap your head around that retarded nonsense then add "yourusername ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL" to the file.
The keybinds are fucktarded by nowadays standards, there are separate modes for command and insert, suffer through it.
If there's a reference to "cd-rom" whatever the fuck when running apt, then edit your "etc/apt/sources.list" with a word processor (kwrite, mousepad, geany) of your liking with sudo.
Mine looks like this, so feel free to just copy n paste after opening a text editor with sudo from the terminal emulator.
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
==Chapter 2==
Once you've pushed through you're pretty much done with the difficult part and now comes the fun stuff. Learn to use "dpkg" packet management with
a few simple commands to help yourself through. (remove the quotes an add a name of an app or a word to search).
-sudo apt-get install "application"
-sudo apt-get purge "application_you_want_to_remove"
-sudo apt-cache search "keyword_for_searching_the_repository_for_whatever"
-sudo apt-cache policy "application_that_you_want_to_check_if_it_has_been_installed_or_what_the_current_version_you_are_rocking_is"
-sudo apt-get update (updates your list from the /etc/apt/sources.list with the most recent packages available)
-sudo apt-get upgrade (upgrades your programs with the newer versions that the newest update points to, so do after running "sudo apt-get update")
don't forget to
-sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
because I know you're an old fuck who wants to run old software, then run
-sudo apt-get update
==Chapter 3==
If you pulled yourself through, you've pretty much made it. Now you can get to enjoy the benefits of having the freedom to do what you want with your shit computer.
Get accustomed with the terminal emulator. When pressing CTRL + C, you can close a program you are running from TE. If you press CTRL + D you can close the TE window.
It's called a terminal emulator, because it's Unix and it's supposed to be emulating the dinosaur days of the 70's terminals with its terminal emulators.
If you are running an Nvidia card, it's recommended to try installing "nvidia-driver" from the repository itself with a command instead of downloading it from their site.
AMD video card drivers are integrated with the Linux kernel itself if I'm not mistaken. No matter if you have problem with audio or not, installing pavucontrol is one step
I recommend for everyone. If there's no audio then keep adjusting shit with that and you should hear the sweet sound soon again.
==Chapter 4==
The home folder is now your new home. Adjust your file manager to show hidden folders, they start with dot, like .folder.
If you open a terminal emulator and type "cd --" it will take you to home folder, whereas "cd .." will take you of course to an upper folder.
Pretty much every program you install has manual pages, that can be invoked with -man "program" and every program takes flags in the form of single letters after "-" character or
names of files or whatever as arguments.
Get used to bash, there are many examples how you can automate things with bash. Like if you want to make things happen every hour or day, whatever there's this
thing called "cron job". You can google what you want about it and get to it. You can mass rename and mass re-edit things more easily with a one single command. Mass download
4chan threads or pictures with wget / curl scripts, or even sites and clone them for monetary gain.
When you run executables, or download them from sketchy sources but still want to run them run "sudo chmod +x" to make a file executable.
These are typically "AppImages" or files ending with the ".sh" suffix. The aforementioned command just makes them executable in your fancy system of access control.
You can easily make ".sh" files as well, whenever you want to run any just type "./retardedscriptwhatever.sh" in terminal emulator to do so, after applying the "sudo chmod +x".
If there's a statement about not having rights to edit or access a folder or file, then get comfy with the "chown" command.
If you have mountable media then press into your head the notion of how to properly mount things. For that "sudo /dev/sdb1" (or whatever is the case for the partition you want to mount is) and the directory you want to mount it in. This typically being well placed in /media/user/directory. For example I would use:
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/user/partition1/ [This is in case it's not mounted by the file manager by default.]
Get accustomed with TTY, this is your best friend if you've ran a fullscreen program locking you out of closing it. You can just easily press CTRL+ALT+FKEY and cycle between sessions with F-keys.
Don't get startled keep cycling through them and you will find your active session going through them. You can login as your user, type "htop" or install it to kill a program that is difficult to kill fullscreen. Not to mention you can run multiple sessions simultaneously that you can switch between with the powerful command of CTRL+ALT+Function Key. If you want a new desktop session just type "sudo startx" after logging in.
There's much more to it, but with these you'll get along just nice. Much better than being a Windows cuck and instead of becoming a vegan, why not give Linux a try?
