I've used Mint for about 4 years happily, but not learnt much about:DrHu wrote: Ultimately I am not so sure where to put those items, since Ubuntu/Mint puts settings in different places
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables
- Not recommended:
1. scripting
2. configuring my system
3. the way linux works
4. my favourite text editor, vim
I've just started to try to address this by branching out and learning something about:
1. TAILS
2. tor
3. kali linux
4. doing some tutes on vim and Command line
When trying to edit resolv.conf last night, I discovered that kali would while mint would not let me mask my DNS.
The mint command line informed me that my editing would be written over,
which, in combination with the quoted text above, brings me to some
QUESTIONS
1. What motivates Mint to take more and more control of the system from the user, if that is indeed what I am observing?
2. Even if this is not the case, it seems that I could spend 20 years using Mint and never learn much about linux, SO ...
which distribution would folks recommend to someone like me wishing to take a tentative step towards more self-sufficiency and greater independence in configuring and "playing in the sandbox" of linux? -without, that is, jumping in the deep end and being embittered by too many failures, too high a pleasure-return threshold for too high a painful curve?
I guess I'm thinking about a compromise between the efficiency and clean-ness of Mint on the one hand, and the dreary (to me) Siberian steppes of Slackware or Arch on the other.