I seem to spend a considerable amount of time on occasion fixing and/or explaining how to fix Linux for my less knowledgeable friends. Trust me when I say, it is not that these folks aren't smart enough to use Linux properly.
There are just so many ways you can literally shoot yourself in the foot with any operating system; Linux just gives you the complete toolkit to do said shooting and says "Go have fun!" - normally without any safety mechanisms in place to keep you from harm.
This set of documents is my attempt to give you some useful advice so you can take care of most of these things on your own without angering your old neckbeard friends who seem to do this stuff in their sleep and always seem cranky.
I fully anticipate some of you will keep asking for my help; think of these documents as a first step in that process.
Who knows, you might learn something useful in here. 😏
This repository of knowledge is divided by the families that distributions (hereinafter referred to by the short form of distros) tend to fall into in this modern age.
The primary three families are Debian (and its derivatives), RedHat (and its derivatives), and SUSE (and its derivatives). These will be referenced in debian-and-derivatives, redhat-and-derivatives, and suse-and-derivatives
Smaller families are grouped together under the umbrella of other-distributions. These include Arch, Gentoo, and Slackware (and, of course, their derivatives).
This entire repository of knowledge is written in Markdown to make a legible, easy-to-read storehouse of information. While they can be read in any text editor, I personally recommend Marktext for viewing them as the formatting included within these documents will make them difficult to read in a standard text editor. Installation instructions are available through the link as well as in the installing_apps.md file within each distro family subsection of this repository.
If you find yourself with an issue not yet covered in the currently existing set of documents, feel free to make a 'feature request' on the repository here. Just hit the Get Started button show below and follow the instructions.
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