Learn a few advice of Linux
1. Do not use many people in the "Missionary" to continue the discussion of "Linux vs. windows" in the discussion area, and even the face red ear, this is not necessary. This argument is a waste of time without any use. Yes, you spent an afternoon, using many facts "defending" "Linux is good than Windows". But Windows supporters will not like Linux, they just retract a little, then find some new evidence to debate you. People in the world are using Linux to study the cutting-edge science. We are still discussing "Do you want to use Linux", when can I catch up with the steps of advancement? What is "Windows Supporter", what is "Linux Supporter"? Why should we support some one against another? You don't need to "protect the law" for Linux, don't need to be "Linux Supporters" or "GNU Mission", GNU / Linux has already proved their power to the world, which has been accepted by most people. You only need to enjoy the fun and freedom of gnu / linux to you. What you need to care is not your tool, but what you did using it. Exquisite Linux does not explain any problem because it is just a tool. If you use Windows to complete your task well, then you don't have time to get time to familiarize yourself with Linux. Until one day you found a task only if Linux was only completed, it was not too late, because the linux of Linux around you will be happy to help you. The tool is not a person, should not have feelings to the tool. This is what you need to remind yours before any discussion of tools. Faced with something that is easy to argue: Word and Tex; Emacs and Vim; Maxima, Mathematica and MAPLE; GNOME, FVWM and KDE; MUTT and PINE ... must be calm and said to himself: "I don't stand any side of them." Because they are not people. "Everyone needs different, and the environment of life is different. For you, something is not necessarily good for others, we need to respect others' choices. If you say that others are using the procedures that others are using, no one will be happy to accept your opinion. I have never recommended that my father doesn't have to use Windows WPS, and use Linux Latex to handle his English test paper. Because WPS is my father's choice, he can use WPS to edit a good test to test his student, it is enough. I used to help my father a Perl program that automatically converts from a Markup language I have designed into a English test paper in the LATEX format. You can automatically generate an option of the test number, the sequence version of the sample, automatically generate the answer sheet, generate the version of the display answer to the teacher, automatically optimize the short-term modification, automatic spelling, graphical configuration method ... My father is happy to use a period of time, but he wants to use a title style in WPS, and I am not at home, I can't modify him. So he exchanged back WPS. This is like someone sent Antan a can of shaving bubble. I started a few days, I found that he was flying, and it was so comfortable to praise this thing. After a few days, Einstein was found to be shaved with white water, because the shaving foam was used up, he was too lazy to buy that thing. This is just a habit. 2. Don't force people who like the computer always have some mental forced tendencies. Some people say: "The keyboard is fast than the mouse. I don't use the mouse. I have high efficiency." So he always used the command to reach the target in the editor. He even felt that the graphical interface is redundant, and the simplicity XWindow is not installed.
All using the keyboard seems to take the mouse than letting the hand left the keyboard, then come back "fast" more, but the fast keystroke frequency is not equal to the high efficiency of work, and there is nothing benefit to your health. This can only turn you into a keyboard. When you are checking your article or procedure, thinking is moving with the meaning of characters, suddenly 20W, 10J this appears in your brain, is it going to interrupt? Do not? That means that you think is relatively simple at the time, these interferences will not play side effects. In fact, many people use a computer, thinking is bound by some kind of dogma, which is just one of many dogmas. Some people have created a lot of this dogma, with his way to ask others, laugh at the way. For example, some people laugh at other people write C procedures do not press 8 characters to indent, laugh at others in vi with arrow keys, ridicule others don't know what PVM, ridicule other people with Java, C # This kind of GC recycled memory language ... You don't need a variety of dogmas, the computer is just your slave, how do you want to use it? No one can constrain you, no one can laugh at your way. The computer is no longer a look tomorrow, so you don't have to fully understand it today. You don't have to know everything you create, because you need to leave your time you create something. Just Have Fun! When you change your article next time, try the leisurely use mouse to gently see it in your eyes. 3. Don't "play Linux", many people will feel confused when using Linux, which one is released? Is there anything else? How to upgrade so fast! Why are you so unstable! Whenever you encounter a new software, he wants to try. Whenever the new version appears, he updates, then use the mouse to select the program never seen in the new menu to use. In fact, you use Linux for Linux, without finding the right reason to use Linux. You first have to express the purpose of using the computer, you use it to solve your actual problem, not to learn to install the operating system, not to test which version is easy to use, not "catching the trend", not because your hard drive is too Big, you want to share more space. If you don't know what you should do after starting your computer, you should not use your computer first, because you may have something more important. 4. No need to picky the release, many people just start using Linux, always in the suspected release version is better than this is better than yourself, always doubt that you will lose your support in the future, you have to use other issues. So many people today are redhat, and I will changed to Debian tomorrow, and I was gentoo, ... and even some people put two versions of Linux on a machine, and then relatively good. In fact, you don't have to do this completely, any issuance, as long as you are familiar, you are almost anything above the way. I used to use Redhat, when I have installed Debian a day, I found that the experience of using RedHat is completely free. I used it in a afternoon to configure Debian, let it wait for the label, just like there is no change. Debian, Turbolinux, SUSE, Redhat, Gentoo, ... any version is good. Many people think that they have a LFS as a symbol of high-level hackers, but they are not everyone who has energy to understand all details. If you are used for personal daily things and research, you can try Debian. It is the most convenient release I have ever seen. 5. Don't blindly upgrade, I don't know if this is a psychological effect, and some people see the relatively large version number, I will want to change to that.
Many people's redhat is very comfortable, but once redhat releases new versions, they will download it as soon as possible, then choose to upgrade installation. As a result, many times the prototypes have been rushed off. The new software has brought new questions. For example, I have conflicted with Minichinput to 2.7.8, upgraded to RedHat 8.0, and I found that XMMS can't put MP3, XFree86 XTT module on I810 There is a new bug that will cause Mozilla to suddenly exit. If you have already configured everything, don't upgrade overall, this will waste you a lot of time, not worth it. There is a saying: "if it's not broker, don't fix it." Why do you upgrade if your program can do what you need to do? 6. Don't configure what you don't need. If you just want to be a normal user like me, the main purpose is to use Linux to complete your own scientific research tasks and daily work, then you can do not need the system administrator or network administrator. To request yourself, because when a system and network administrator is really hard. Ordinary users learn the tools that do not often use the complex maintenance system, in fact, it is a waste of time, and it is necessary to have forgotten! I am not a qualified network administrator, my server only sets the features I need, set SSH, FTP is already enough, so you can save me a lot of trouble. I never considered "safety" because Linux is safe. I don't have a tape drive, I don't have to manage the strange parameters of Tar, CZF, XZF, ZTF can already meet all my needs. Sed, awk, ... I will only have several common command lines. 7. Don't get used to using the root account. Too much when you need it! This is a common phenomenon that many people who have just contacted the UNIX-class operating system. They don't like SU when they manage the system, but they have been using root account to do everything, configure the system, installer, browse web, play games, programming ... One day, he accidentally used RM * ... consequences in a system catalog ... 8. Don't look at Linux with business vision. Linux is not commercial software, so don't look at Linux with your stay like Solaris, Windows. The authors of free software have never rushed to users, they have no responsibility for users. In fact, in the world of free software, "developers" and "users" have not clear boundaries, everyone is a friend. Free software is likely to just satisfy the needs of the author and his friends, even for fun. Free software is not perfect, free software admits that they have a shortcoming, it will not be self-discounted, blind "users" eyes. This relief of the author's responsibility has stimulated the author's creativity. They don't have to consider "upward compatibility". They tend to be more reasonable and more advanced than the commercial software structure on the back of the back. So when you encounter difficulties with a free software, you should not blame the author's authors because they have no obligation to you. You shouldn't treat yourself as a picky customer, but you have to use yourself as this software consultant and a kind suggestion, so that you can understand the happiness when you write this program, reflect to the author when you encounter problems, help him Improve this software and become a happy participant. Just like your brother gives you a bicycle he uses old bikes, you should cherish this friendship, but don't break it in the car, or ride your brother when you fall. If you really can't use this collaboration, it is best not to use this software.
