I don't understand Linux
by IT-Jereon from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4SX8T)
Understanding what makes up a Linux System
I recently got it into my head to start using Linux as a learning project for running some servers in a home lab.
This led me to this forum, and I started asking questions, which lead to a lot of confusions as I was missing the core understanding of what encompass Linux.
Coming from a Windows environment where everything needed packed into a single package is called Windows. Linux on the other hand was very confusing for me as it never is about a single package.
when asking a questions, about I want to do, I would get an answer You can do that with distribution A, or B or C, and x, y, z, where x,y,z are additional packages that can be applied to A,B,C. I felt like every time I got an answer I had to "reboot" my ideas.
Until I found this article, and the answers people gave me were starting to make more sense.
https://www.howtogeek.com/177213/lin...linux-systems/
Any OS, including Windows, is build up around a multitude of programs that can do x,y,z. In Windows this is an all included single (Microsoft) source/choice installation package, but with Linux these programs come from different sources and a multitude of packages and possible choices that can do x, or y or z.
This probably won't be last thing I don't understand, as I am slowly transgress from a spoon fed baby into a toddler discovering building blocks.
I recently got it into my head to start using Linux as a learning project for running some servers in a home lab.
This led me to this forum, and I started asking questions, which lead to a lot of confusions as I was missing the core understanding of what encompass Linux.
Coming from a Windows environment where everything needed packed into a single package is called Windows. Linux on the other hand was very confusing for me as it never is about a single package.
when asking a questions, about I want to do, I would get an answer You can do that with distribution A, or B or C, and x, y, z, where x,y,z are additional packages that can be applied to A,B,C. I felt like every time I got an answer I had to "reboot" my ideas.
Until I found this article, and the answers people gave me were starting to make more sense.
https://www.howtogeek.com/177213/lin...linux-systems/
Any OS, including Windows, is build up around a multitude of programs that can do x,y,z. In Windows this is an all included single (Microsoft) source/choice installation package, but with Linux these programs come from different sources and a multitude of packages and possible choices that can do x, or y or z.
This probably won't be last thing I don't understand, as I am slowly transgress from a spoon fed baby into a toddler discovering building blocks.