new User
Hello everyone my name is david i live in the UK i am new to linux but most distro i have tried seems to have loads of programs i would never user.
I found trisquel while searching for free software i am using trisquel mini it does all i need for now.
Am still learning about linux so i will not be much help to anyone just yet but most likely will have questions for the forum.
Welcome David,
> ...but most likely will have questions for the forum.
Questions are welcome on the forum, also some context with the system name, it is GNU/Linux as Linux is only a kernel.
That is better explained here[1].
Hope you keep meeting all your needs using free software[2], read you around.
Cheers!
[1] https://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.en.html
[2] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
I particularly like this paragraph:
"The GNU Project is idealistic, and anyone encouraging idealism today faces a great obstacle: the prevailing ideology encourages people to dismiss idealism as “impractical.” Our idealism has been extremely practical: it is the reason we have a free GNU/Linux operating system. People who love this system ought to know that it is our idealism made real."
The Trisquel documentation next door is also a good place to start:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/documentation
Hi, also like that paragraph. Thanks for sharing.
Sincerely yours,
Malsasa
If you think the system is too bloated there are free distros like parabola GNU/Linux-libre which start with almost no software installed in them and make you choose basically everything you want to install. These ones are not friendly to new users though.
That is what Trisquel NetInstall provides too. It is behind "More" on https://trisquel.info/download