This week, Linux Out Loud chats about improving onboaring for new linux users.
Welcome to episode 63 of Linux Out Loud. We fired up our mics, connected those headphones as we searched the community for themes to expound upon. We kept the banter friendly, the conversation somewhat on topic, and had fun doing it.
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:48 Minisforum V2 Tablet
00:04:29 Summer Robotics
00:10:25 Upgrading Conference Rooms
00:20:55 Linux Onboarding
00:37:21 Game of the Week
00:42:12 Sublimation Printing
00:53:13 Nate going to SELF
00:55:30 Close
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Ulfnic goes on a rant
I think the terminal is the great unifier because the interface is distro agnostic, errors tend to be clearer and it’s easier to share with someone the steps to reproduce or fix a problem.
Also while BASH is usually the default shell there’s close to zero difference between BASH, ZSH, Fish, pure POSIX shells, ect for entering commands interactively because there’s rarely a reason to leave the POSIX compatibility layer (or whatever Fish thinks POSIX is).
Things diverge a lot when you’re scripting but people tend to gravitate to #!/bin/sh or #!/bin/bash so regardless of the shell the script is executed in a POSIX compliant shell or BASH.
It’s also (imho) the true power of Linux lurking beneath the GUI. Being FOSS and, “like Windows but without the spyware” is what got me to move but the terminal is what completely changed the game.
Ulfnic realizes he was wrong
BUT…
I needed GUI-only when I first moved to Linux and learning BASH felt like falling down a well.
It was a trap, Ulfnic still on rant
What i’d love to see is an embrace of the terminal as something that’s never mandatory but everything is getting you ready for. So software should be built for the terminal first around the UNIX philosophy so when a GUI is built for it the commands that do XYZ can be mapped to the interface 1 to 1 which in turn makes it easier to show the user what command they just ran when they clicked a button.
Another advantage is it brings in some of that terminal unification into GUI space because now the user has the command that failed and hopefully the useful errors that came with it.
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ICC colour profiles are a bit niche in Linux, but it is not unknown. Please read this resource..
Also, you might want to investigate the cups-calibrate command
Hope that helps.
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