2013-04-18, 12:41 AM
Locked Wrote:Did you pick Mint because it ~feels like Windows~? On my Windows machine I use Sublime Text 2 rather than Notepad++. I haven't tried gedit but it looks promising. If you're using GCC, I suggest getting 4.8.0 (as it's the newest release). Hell maybe you'll finally get to play around with dat C++11. Also, what stopped you from contributing to github before! If you used KeePass like me, you can use http://www.keepassx.org/ as it is similar and a port. Also you can actually get MinGW (with the windows.h header and all) in Linux, though I don't know how that works. You can use Wine as well.
In many of the other things that I eventually became good at, I started off small and simple. Then, small and simple wasn't enough for me, so I started creating my own stuff until I moved deeper into the language. It'll be the same way with Linux. I have tried to go to Linux before, but I had many problems with getting the AMD drivers to work. This time around - no such problems.
What stopped me from doing stuff with git before? Ignorance, and almost all tutorials are written for linux for git. All of the cool things I wanted to do had default tutorials in Linux and it became 10x harder to do in Windows.
And no, I picked Mint because that's the go-to beginner Linux distro. I picked Cinnamon because it ~feels like Windows~.