documentation has dead link
The Trisquel documentation page: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/working-files-and-folders
has a dead link for nautilus manuel:
http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/stable/nautilus.html
Is making this topic here inappropriate?
I looked and wasn't sure.
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This is all you need :P
I'm joking, sort of..
Feel free to add and modify any documentation, just make sure it is free software and take care.
Welcome to the forumello btw
Hi SuperTramp83, thanks.
I don't know anything about the command line, so I'll be searching for tutorials and manuals until I can have trisquel operating better than windows. This looks daunting at the moment.
Where are the video sharing platforms and are there tutorials other than youtube?
You do not need to know the command line to use Trisquel GNU/Linux. I know it for a fact: my parents (~60-year-old, both accountants) have been using Trisquel as their only home system for many years now, without much of a problem, despite the 8775km that has been separating us for seven years. I sometimes give them a command to copy-paste in a terminal but that is only because it is much easier than explaining "click on this, click on that, etc.". If you encounter a problem and ask for help it here, it is possible you will be answered that way.
You probably need no tutorial to use Trisquel's file manager. Especially if you know Windows' and are not afraid of searching in menus and of experimenting.
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Indeed senor Bannanna :)
This is actually one of the greatest achievements of free software in the last decade, making it grandma proof. If we want the gen pop to use it we need to make it simple, as in point and click. Not everybody is good with computers or actually interested in learning more.
That being said, if you ignore the CLI, you will never have an idea of how much splendor you are missing. I recommend you play with it, read, learn, play.
Magic Banana and SuperTramp83 I thank you both.
I am looking forward to the arrival of my GNU-Trisquel-Laptop, meanwhile, I am watching youtube tutorials and reading documentation.
I will do my best to be skilled at the command line.
This old man is not too old to learn.
I am concerned that I do not have a strategy for customizing my laptop to meet my needs, I lack the experience and data.
I have noted on some tutorials the command line becomes too long with the path names; so I must have short user and directory names to not confuse myself (too easy to confuse me at the terminal).
I've considered something like this would help me:
1. Name the master ROOT dir ? "GNU" or "TRISQ"
2. Mame myself as Administrator ? "Sysop" (sudo super-user privileges)
3. Name my user dir ? "Ron" or "RonMa"
4. Larger fonts to read text with my poor eyesight.
Then there is the concern to practice the FSF guidelines to maintain and nurture the freedom platform that will be my machine and my goal.
Thus, I am asking:
How to insure the update will not install a non-fsf version?
The repository may have FSF approved software, but what about when upgrading applications from the command line?
Indeed I will play with at the terminal.
PS:
Okay I read
> "Long-term support (LTS) is a type of special versions or editions of software designed to be supported for a longer than normal period"...
I get it now, I should have little desire to keep up with the "latest".
However, I do wish to get better features to do amazing things or make tasks easier - especially A/V editing and recording, image suites, writing, story boarding, graphic novels, podcasting or streaming...
So, my concern about upgrading are still valid, but I could consider a virtual machine partitioned for temporarily using non-fsf software.
Do not rename system files/directory. Ever. You can use a one-character user name if you wish. You do not need a separate user for administrative purpose: on Trisquel, we use 'sudo' to execute a command with administrative privileges. With a 1080p screen, I needed a zoom too. I simply specified a 1.4 zoom factor in the "Fonts" tab of "Tweak Tool" in the "System Settings". It allows to not only have larger fonts but larger everything.
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Everything that is in your software repository is free software, and when you do a 'apt update && apt upgrade' or via GUI, the upgrades you receive are also going to be and always only free software. That is to say, as long as you use apt, there's no fear and no failure. What you need to pay attention to is software you install out of the repository, not with apt..
Say you want to install a .deb package with dpkg. You first need to check if such package is free software. Same applies to compiling from a source. Another frequent situation is when you want to install plugins or addons, for example a Firefox addon - first you need to check its license.
This page is very useful -> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html
If the software that you want to install comes with a free license then it's, of course, free software. :)
I'm not sure I understand 'naming the root directory', root is /. Home is /home/username/ or more conveniently ~/
So for instance if you need to copy a file from say Documents into /usr/share the convenient way is:
sudo cp ~/Documents/file /usr/share/
My username has always been 'gnu', heh :)
Yo can make the fonts bigger in system settings, tinker with it, you'll find it, it depends on your desktop environment but it's easy to find, you just need to play with it.
This is a very good manual -> http://write.flossmanuals.net/command-line/introduction/
The manual is indeed very good except that the section "STANDARD FILES" is misplaced. It definitely is "ADVANCED".
SuperTramp83 I watched a tutorial that had a very long cli - I think it included the computer name (very long), then something and the user name (again very long) where the prompt had to wrap around and down to the next line when the command, Arguments and Options were typed...
From that I thought my laptop may ship with a computer name like Libiquity or "TaurinusX200" and my full name as a user, and there I am with the task of cleaning that messy prompt before doing anything on my new machine.
Thanks for the resources I am off to read them now, cheers.
Assuming you use Trisquel's default shell (GNU Bash), the variable PS1, typically defined in ~/.bashrc (that is a hidden file .bashrc directly in your home folder), defines the prompt. If you only want a dollar sign followed by a space, you can append this line at the end of ~/.bashrc:
PS1='$ '
More generally, many Web pages explain how to customize your prompt by redefining the PS1 variable.
Magic Banana
Hmm... Then this is explained as:
> minimal prompt would be " $ "
The default prompt looks something like:
user@host:~$
as per http://write.flossmanuals.net/command-line/customisation/
I'll play around with that, but it sounds good - even if the laptop build has a messy prompt with user login name and host name of the computer for directories.
Thanks!
The minimal prompt is nothing at all:
PS1=
But with nothing at all, you do not know when the command stopped executing.
It is useful to always keep in mind who you are ('su' to switch user) on what system (e.g., when using 'ssh') and in what directory ('cd' to change directory). Those are the pieces of information in the default prompt. There are commands to print them ('whoami', 'hostname' and 'pwd', respectively) too.
Magic Banana, Yikes - nothing at all!
LOL 😃 Ha-ha dangers of doing something foolish at the terminal...
Moments ago I realized I can assist with torrent sharing, I'm downloading the 7.0 LTS Belenos torrent to help share. I wish I had thought of this earlier.
I am glad to help torrent sharing when I am connected to the internet.