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Tylor Martinez
I am new to linux, and am trying to use linux mint within virtualbox to learn the OS. I have spent the last hour trying to use the terminal to install notepad++ to learn how that all works, to no avail. ChatGPT is telling me to use wine, and the articles I am finding online say to use something called snap or snapd, but all the commands I try to use to install snap don't work either. Any help would be appreciated.
I am agree with you, FLATPAK and SNAP are not a conventional in the linux environment and such thing are creating struggles because people is dealing to choose an installation between PPA or another source
I don't know what is in such a thing, but I know what I want it to do. I've been trying to immerse into *nix and hopefully reach a deep understanding of that environment to a comparable level of my Windows expertise (over much time, of course). I think the only way I am going to be able to do this is to just put Linux first and work with it.
I'm trying to make a plan on how I will handle my Windows activities in a Linux world. I understand I probably won't be able to completely abstain from Windows while having to administrate and maintain Windows machines, but I think this will help a great deal to have to wear the linux hat and do everything possible with linux if I ever hope to integrate that to my skillset.
So here's a brainstorm (OMG IT HURTS!) of things I want to do, but not sure what tools to look for or if it's even possible. I am running Linux Mint.
- First is there any authentication integration with Active Directory and Linux? Or should I just not bother and just be happy with my local login credentials on the Linux box?
- Are there any Linux tools for managing AD or anything else that is Windows infrastructure? Group Policy? Print Management?
- Any chance of Powershell? I see it being touted as "more linux-like, FINALLY MS did something right..." but is there an actual "Powershell for Linux"?
- Need mass text editor like Notepad++. I use Notepad++ on Windows to do mass changes to login scripts. Since we're dealing with a storage migration at the moment, this is immediately useful. I also like Notepad++ for working with scripts because it makes code look pretty.
- Going to use Thunderbird for E-mail unless there's something better? I'm not terribly attached to Outlook since we don't have Exchange. We're a POP3 shop but will hopefully be getting Exchange soon!
- Remote Desktop - I was thinking of rdesktop Opens a new window unless there's something "better"?
- Basic Network tools - Ping, tracerout, nslookup, etc. Is this already built into "Terminal" just with slightly different names?
- Office Apps - Mint came with LibreOffice. How does this compare to OpenOffice though?
- IMGBurn - I love this app but I see Brasero comes with Mint. I use IMGBurn because the native disc burning in Windows is crap. Is Brasero a solid choice here?
That's all I can think of for now. Thanks in advance for the feedback!
A As mentioned above VI, although Debian defaults to nano. There is also Emacs and probably a 100 different real text editors for both CLI and GUI in Linux. Both Gnome and KDE have their own GUI text editors, all of them better than the windows notepad, but some certainly not as advanced as notepad++ (which is an awesome program)
Glad you are trying Linux, immersion into anything is the best way to learn it. Don't be afraid to break things either, that's how you learn. Not to to pull anything away from SW but if you haven't join a good Linux community. I recommend http:/ Opens a new window/www.linuxquestions.org I've been a member for years, and have found the site invaluable. Don't forget your friend man for the manual page for almost any command
3) Powershell is what Microsoft has created to compete with UNIX/Linux command shells, (and is much easier to use, the commands make sense) check this out http:/ Opens a new window/code.google.com/edu/tools101/linux/basics.html
I would say good luck, but this is Linux - not Windows... Linux doesn't require luck - the only kernel panics that I have ever gotten from linux is when my hardware goes dodgy. I have managed to blow my installations a few times, ut only when I try really hard (FYI, it is possible to use the linux GUI to completely erase a hard drive - freaks people out when they reboot a computer and have NO operating system installed, but just prior to the reboot had a fully functioning OS!)
I've been in your shoes. A few years back I was a new Windows admin at a company. Corporate decided we were going to go Linux to replace all our hp-ux boxes. The unix guys hated linux because it wasn't unix so I volunteered to manage the new servers even though I knew absolutely nothing about it.
If its the second then you need to go hardcore and force yourself to learn. Use a true business distro such as Centos, or go hardcore and build your own using Gentoo (its what I did) or Linux from Scratch. These will force you to really learn the inner workings of linux. Same deal here, you will be living in an RDP session for managing your windows servers.
Powershell on linux - I don't think it would exist. For linux management the shell is centuries ahead of powershell though. If you are thinking about using powershell to remotely manage windows, unfortunately I don't think it exists. Perhaps with MS now working on a linux version of DOTNET this might not be out of the question, though. Let's hope.
For script editing - and assuming you use a graphical environment - I'd recommend checking our gedit, sublime, kate.. also, just google "linux text editor" - there are a lot of them, as linux is traditionally managed by editing configuration files.
Generally speaking, if you are using Mint you can pretty much give a blind shot to whichever app they chose. They tend to value user experience and user needs above all, and they are pretty good at it. You are probably getting all the best apps available for linux in your Mint machine.
The next one is notpadqq which is a really good version of notepad++ but I like the look for Notepad++ better and can be used just like everything else. To install notepadqq
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:notepadqq-team/notepadqq
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install notepadqq
On my desktop PC (windows 7):
character send by arduino = 2664(value of n)
character counted by "notepad++" = 2664
sequence of character => most of the time good but sometimes 1 error like "abcdabcdababcd...."
My questions
The keyboard library seems to adapt to the bandwidth allocated by the OS (since we can see that the character sended by second is different on pi, windows, mint,...) so why it lose/mix some character ? is it a bug of the library ? how to fix it ?
I used the mintupgrade tool and everything looked fine at first glance. Than recognized that my printer and scanner drivers have been deleted and that I could not reach most of my favorite websites, e.g. linuxmint.com
I used timeshift to restore my system, but the issues mentioned above are still present. Therefore I am using my smartphone for writung here.
Due to my experience I cannot recommend to use the mintupgrade tool! Any ideas, how to fix the issues?
Actually it was the first time I had some trouble using mintupgrade. But I admit, it might last on my used unofficial packages. Thanks to Timeshift I had no worries to get my machine back running! Today I spent nearly same time with a clean install of LM 21 Cinnamon and everything went fine (took some time to restore all my settings). The change to Blueman made solaar obsolete and touchstick/touchpad on Thinkpad T570 work fine out of the box, no need for the synaptics-driver anymore. Many thanks for your work, guys!
Update on min/max icons:
Just out of curiosity, I tried to create an entirely new user on my system just to see if the problem is connected to some config carried over from the previous version. The new user has proper mint-y min/max window icons. So now my question is which config in my actual user folder should I edit to get proper icons here too?
The mintupgrade tool is solid, user friendly and well engineered, like the rest of Mint. However, it is trying to do an almost impossible task. There are over half a million files in my installation of Mint, and trying to work out the dependencies between them is too much. Even a well engineered tool like mintupdate takes a long time to work through every eventuality. Rolling different parts of the OS backwards and forwards to satisfy every possibility is very complex, especially as installations differ so widely.
#sudo mintupgrade
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
i am not an expert, just a beginner with linux, and now I do not know how to get on with upgrading, the upgrading tool says that i have to do apt update again, and repair the faults that are shown, but I do not know how to.
Can please help someone me with this problem?