Hello! I am new :nerdemoji:

[CataclysmicGentleman]

Hi everyone, I am glad I finally made an account here! I often can have a lot of questions that have simple answers which are hard to find with a simple duckduckgo search, so I am thankful I can ask them here as they arise. I hope I won't bother anyone with my newbishness too much, but from what I can tell these forums are newb friendly. I like photography, I studied theology, I am a young man hoping to work in the field of computer science! (Lord willing) I will be going to university soon! I enjoy working with computers, and I enjoy even more helping people with their computer problems! I also enjoy writing and photography.

G'day

 

[Condobloke]

G'day CG, Welcome to Linux.org

 

[Brickwizard]

Welcome to the forums
your learning curve has begun,
sit back, kick off your shoes, grab a beer, and enjoy the ride,.

 

[kc1di]

Hello @CataclysmicGentleman,
Welcome to the Linux.org Forum, enjoy the Journey!

 

[KGIII]

I removed the text formatting.

If you turn the text black, it can't be (easily) read by those using the dark theme.

 

[CataclysmicGentleman]

I removed the text formatting.

If you turn the text black, it can't be (easily) read by those using the dark theme.

thanks! LOL I made it black so that it wouldn't be grey, what format should I use in general? just the normal one?

 

[f33dm3bits]

Welcome @CataclysmicGentleman! What made you get started with GNU/Linux and what distribution is currently your daily driver?

 

[KGIII]

just the normal one?

Unless you need colors, leave it as the default - don't change it. That way it works on both the light and dark theme automatically.

 

[Lord Boltar]

Howdy and welcome

 

[CataclysmicGentleman]

Welcome @CataclysmicGentleman! What made you get started with GNU/Linux and what distribution is currently your daily driver?

Well when I started looking into the privacy standards of various applications I became concerned and started looking into open source applications, which led me to find out about open source operation systems! I also looked into some information from Edward Snowden about the NSA and Prism. So my desire to use Linux spawned from three things: 1 freedom, Microsoft demands you update, and to be frank I hate windows 11 so very much. I am tech savvy enough to disable some things and enable others on windows 11- I used Henry ++ firewall, and an app to make the start menu like windiws 7, but overall I like the idea of a more honest and free OS, also I can customize it all as I like which is quite satisfying! Secondly would be privacy: apps don't just randomly run in the background, and don't collect telemetry. This ties into freedom, but more so on the side of "If I want to uninstall anything, I can, or turn off anything, I can (On Linux). 3rdly would be just my general enjoyment of computer stuff. I am enjoying learning commands, feels so empowering! Instead of having to download a whole app to check my system information, I can just type into the command prompt a command and it will show all my hardware information. All in all, I feel my computer is "mine" when I use Linux, and i dont have to enslave myself to the giant corporate overlords.

 

[DexTheDog]

Well when I started looking into the privacy standards of various applications I became concerned and started looking into open source applications, which led me to find out about open source operation systems! I also looked into some information from Edward Snowden about the NSA and Prism. So my desire to use Linux spawned from three things: 1 freedom, Microsoft demands you update, and to be frank I hate windows 11 so very much. I am tech savvy enough to disable some things and enable others on windows 11- I used Henry ++ firewall, and an app to make the start menu like windiws 7, but overall I like the idea of a more honest and free OS, also I can customize it all as I like which is quite satisfying! Secondly would be privacy: apps don't just randomly run in the background, and don't collect telemetry. This ties into freedom, but more so on the side of "If I want to uninstall anything, I can, or turn off anything, I can (On Linux). 3rdly would be just my general enjoyment of computer stuff. I am enjoying learning commands, feels so empowering! Instead of having to download a whole app to check my system information, I can just type into the command prompt a command and it will show all my hardware information. All in all, I feel my computer is "mine" when I use Linux, and i dont have to enslave myself to the giant corporate overlords.

If you like windows sevens look I recommend looking in to twister UI.

 

[f33dm3bits]

What GNU/Linux distribution do you currently use?

 

[DexTheDog]

What GNU/Linux distribution do you use?

If your talking about

CataclysmicGentleman​

Its
Fedora 36 KDE Plasma
Linux version 5.18.19-200.fc36.x86_64 (gcc (GCC) 12.1.1 20220507 (Red Hat 12.1.1-1),
GNU ld version 2.37-27.fc36) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Aug 21 15:52:59 UTC 2022

in the signature

 

[CataclysmicGentleman]

What GNU/Linux distribution do you use?

Oh yes, I use Fedora 36 KDE (Plasma) I will send you a screenshot

 

[f33dm3bits]

Fedora 36 KDE Plasma
Linux version 5.18.19-200.fc36.x86_64 (gcc (GCC) 12.1.1 20220507 (Red Hat 12.1.1-1),
GNU ld version 2.37-27.fc36) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Aug 21 15:52:59 UTC 2022

in the signature

lol I misssed it, I normally don't focus too much on signatures. Thanks!

@CataclysmicGentleman Did you know Fedora uses selinux and that selinux was developed by the NSA?

Security-Enhanced Linux - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[CataclysmicGentleman]

lol I misssed it, I normally don't focus too much on signatures. Thanks!

@CataclysmicGentleman Did you know Fedora uses selinux and that selinux was developed by the NSA?

Security-Enhanced Linux - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I don't know a lot about how it all works, I have nothing to hide, just a nerd who loves books and computer tech here.. haha.. I just don't like the fact that big corperations sell my information to make money. But thank you for the link, ill look into it sometime!

 

[f33dm3bits]

Oh yes, I use Fedora 36 KDE (Plasma) I will send you a screenshot

Be sure to check this topic.

 

[CataclysmicGentleman]

lol I misssed it, I normally don't focus too much on signatures. Thanks!

@CataclysmicGentleman Did you know Fedora uses selinux and that selinux was developed by the NSA?

Security-Enhanced Linux - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Does that mean fedora has telemetry/NSA spying stuff too? What distro do you use and enjoy best? I use fedora because it is easy enough to use, and also a good friend of mine also has fedora so he helps me out when I need it.

 

[f33dm3bits]

Oh yes, I use Fedora 36 KDE (Plasma) I will send you a screenshot

Also don't forget to upgrade to Fedora 37 once Fedora 36 is End of Life(EOL).

Fedora Linux

Check End of Life, Support Schedule, and release timelines for AlmaLinux OS, Alpine Linux, Amazon Corretto, Amazon Linux, Android OS, Angular, Ansible-core, Ansible, antiX Linux, Apache Airflow, Apache Camel, Apache Cassandra, Apache Groovy, Apache HTTP Server, Apache Maven, API Platform, Azure...

endoflife.date

DNF System Upgrade

dnf-plugin-system-upgrade is a plugin for the DNF package manager and is used to upgrade your system to the current release of Fedora. For Fedora Silverblue and Fedora CoreOS, which use…

docs.fedoraproject.org

 

[f33dm3bits]

Does that mean fedora has telemetry/NSA spying stuff too? What distro do you use and enjoy best? I use fedora because it is easy enough to use, and also a good friend of mine also has fedora so he helps me out when I need it.

No, the NSA developed it but opensourced the code, I use Fedora myself as well.