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Hi, Dear Community.
I am a blogger, and I have many websites on WordPress and Shopify.

And I want to use Linux instead of Windows. I am bored of Windows (especially their latest Windows 11 update).
I have a simple question, as I do my work with websites, can I continue this simply as I was doing with windows?
Is there any complexity to using Linux?
Which one will suit me?
I’ll be thankful to you.
 
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itsumairiqbal said:
Is there any complexity to using Linux?
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Welcome
Linux is not windows so you will have a learning curve, how steep you make it is up to you, there is no real complexity to using Linux just a slight difference in the way applications work [we have applications not programs]
itsumairiqbal said:
Which one will suit me?
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ah back to the old question what is best, please read https://www.linux.org/threads/what-is-the-best-linux-distribution-which-should-i-use.43789/

the answer is whichever suits you best, as the last paragraph of the article says..
What is best for me or any other member, Is not necessarily the best for you,
ONLY YOU CAN CHOOSE

if you let us know what your machine is and age it may make a difference to what some members may suggest
 
Hello @itsumairiqbal
Welcome to the Linux.org forum, enjoy the journey!
to Add to what @Brickwizard has already said. Coming from windows to Linux can seem like it is very difficult but actually it is not. Modern Linux Distros can do as much and more that windows but they do it much differently. So there is a leaning curve. I would suggest trying several live usb Linux Distro before choosing the one that suits your need both for hardware compatibility and for personal use. This page may help you under stand and learn Linux.

Home | Linux Journey

linuxjourney.com linuxjourney.com
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Good luck in your new endeavor.
 
The line terminations differ but Linux text editors typically offer 3 alternatives: Unix/Linux, Mac OS Classic and Windows; with the later equivalent to CR/LF while Linux only needs an LF character. I don't have to deal with Mac OS Classic but i suppose having 3 options is more like a convenient asset than a nuisance, so do you get the same freedom under Windows?

The one annoying thing that feels most bugging for an old DOS user painfully converted to Windows (sort of late) resides in combinations keys or shortcuts like [ Shift ] + [ Insert ] (to paste) being replaced by [ Ctrl ] + [ v ], etc.
 
Brickwizard said:
we have applications not programs
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Apps != programs

Short for applications is "apps", apps become a thing with the birth of phone OS's like iOS and Android.
The term become most popular with Mac OS introducing apps into their Mac OS as a mean to earn extra profit by providing software market directly on PC, and consequently that made Microsoft turn their Windows into a Frankenstein OS (tablet like system) to catch up with Apple's innovation.

Normally when referring to "programs" what that means is PC or laptop software, the old fashioned X86 programs, however MS in it's struggle started to introduce apps into Windows just like Apple did and here we have the official birth of apps.

On laptops and PC's when somebody say "app" this normally means containerized software because apps usually are containerized unlike native software aka. programs.

Linux is not an exception unfortunately, an equivalent to "Linux app" are app images and other software that runs in a container like flatpak.

However "program" still means program, programs have always been programs, software than runs directly on hardware, it's just that the new sick trend made a lot of people slowly replace the term program for app, forgetting the core difference and history to where apps come from.

I don't blame Linux users but Windows users for letting Microsoft indoctrinate them into believing that apps are now IN and programs are a thing of the past, but that's true only in M$'s world, let's now follow their ideology.
 
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I know it' not really a piece of software nor an application simply looking at the object's size...
 
It's all just semantics, folks. Apps, applications, applets, firmware, programs... If it runs on the cpu, it's a "program".

Some programs are "applications" - think user level programs like a text editor, or music player.

Some programs are operating systems - think linux kernel or whatever MS calls theirs.

Some programs are utilities - think ls or grep. Sometimes the lines are blurry - is a text editor an application or a utility? And who cares?

I usually think of an "applet" as something that runs only in the context of something larger - like some of the doodads that run in a particular desktop environment.

"app" is just short for "application" because we're lazy. In common usage, "app" refers to applications for smartphones - I guess because it seem s odd to use a big word like "applications" for such a small device.
Let's not let the marketing people in the smartphone world subvert commonly used words.

Particularly annoying is the phrase "software program". As opposed to... what? Hardware programs? It's like utilizing "utilize" instead of just using "use" - "Oops, that just wasn't enough letters to seem important!"
 
Remember when a 30 MB hard drive was "plenty"? :)
 
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Thanks, dear members, you all are very supportive. I am pleased to see your comments.
So, which linux will you people recommend for me?

I have a Dell Vostro (i5, 8th gen) 16GB RAM, and NVMe storage.
 
With that machine you can run almost any Linux Distro , as I said before down load and try a few live see which one suits you.
Mint is a good place to start.
 
itsumairiqbal said:
I am a blogger... ... Which one will suit me?
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Where there was 1 Windows before you can fit 2 Linux, so if you're a busy guy who can't stand random interruptions that's an opportunity to keep a « Plan-B » around. On reasonably new machines as mine i actually chose to shrink the Win11 partition to about one third the total space and used the rest to install, in alphebitical order (...): Expirion, Lite, LMDE, Mint, Mint Cinnamon, Manjaro, MX, Sparky - not to mention i've tried many more which i eventually removed: Alma, Fedora, LUbuntu, XUbuntu. That even leaves me a spare OS partition pending.

It's been 6 months since the purchase i think and i still haven't ditched the surplus because i don't revisit them all on an equal basis, as you can imagine!... The tools i value most, as they were precious in saving time & patience, are YUMi-exFAT (from pendrivelinux.com) for convenient copy of .ISOs on my external USB drive and rEFInd which has a little FAT32 partition of its own while many more Linux ESPs provide additional redundancy, except Expirion and a couple others that are solitary on their GrUB menus. Anyway rEFInd searches dynamically at each reboot, remembers my last choice and also detects/add the USB drive when connected. I used to rely on "etchers" like 'Rufus' but got tired of spending minutes on it when a fraction of that time sufficed...

Of course you'll probably want to reserve a partition where to keep your work so it can be accessed by all OSes.

Once in a while updates/modifications related to GrUB happen to modify my favourite boot order, a minor issue.

You can call it being spoiled! ;)
 
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itsumairiqbal said:
Thanks, dear members, you all are very supportive. I am pleased to see your comments.
So, which linux will you people recommend for me?

I have a Dell Vostro (i5, 8th gen) 16GB RAM, and NVMe storage.
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If you are confused at all about the term "live" being tossed around (as I was not too long ago), it's a way for you to try out most(?) distros without actually installing them on your computer. It will generally run faster after install though.

Try a few and see what you like. Have a look through some YT videos to maybe see if one is more visually appealing than another. Most importantly maybe, have fun. And remember, once you pick 1, 2, or 10, you can always do a dual boot system and keep windows as a fall back if things don't work out.
 
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