i realy!! want to switch to linux
by Elie99374 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#52ZE9)
hey everybody,
so my name is elie and im 20,
for a long time now i want to switch from windows to linux,
i even installed ubuntu on my laptop (the only good computer i have) and tryed to use it; but after a few days of struggling with the os trying to work things out so i can do stuff with it (i study programing so i need kde for java, kde for c and c++, microsoft sql and mssql (i need microsoft sql because that's the way they teach in my college, and i need mssql because i dont know how to work with data bases without gui for now) and other different things),
i did somthing wrong and the os was not very useable any more,
i tryed again and again did somthin wrong and again the machine crashed on me (I'm guessing it's not to wird to not know how to manage linux in the very begining),
i can't afford myself to not have a steady machine for to long (because of the studying i have to do) so i retreated from linux and went back to windows,
now i realy realy want to use linux at least as my main os if not only,
but i dont feel like i can be reliant upon my ablety to work this out,
not without help (if i could afford to work this out by myself and maybe crash a few times i would),
now to work it out i need your help,
1) i need to know that i can get the things i need on linux one way or another (if it means that i need to double boot to keep the gui database manager (aka mssql) then i need help with that so i can do it relyably and not corrupt all the data on my hard disk),
2) i need to find a way to be able to know that even if i did somthing teribly wrong that it's not going to be to bad and that il'l be able to get things the way they were before (somthing like restore points on windows would do the job, or if i can take an image of the entire disk every week and know that i can allways go back (i don't know how to do that)),
3) if there are things i need that i can do with windows and not linux i need to find a way to solve it,
4) i need to know how to get help along the way when things go sideways, and that i well not be stuck two weeks from now trying to figur out how to do somthing i realy need...
in summary:
i basicly need somone to guide me through it,
obviesly not every step of the way (because then i well not learn) but when i'm starting to lose it or when i need things to happened and dont have the time to learn everything there and then
if you can give me any kind of advice i well Appreciate it a lot
so my name is elie and im 20,
for a long time now i want to switch from windows to linux,
i even installed ubuntu on my laptop (the only good computer i have) and tryed to use it; but after a few days of struggling with the os trying to work things out so i can do stuff with it (i study programing so i need kde for java, kde for c and c++, microsoft sql and mssql (i need microsoft sql because that's the way they teach in my college, and i need mssql because i dont know how to work with data bases without gui for now) and other different things),
i did somthing wrong and the os was not very useable any more,
i tryed again and again did somthin wrong and again the machine crashed on me (I'm guessing it's not to wird to not know how to manage linux in the very begining),
i can't afford myself to not have a steady machine for to long (because of the studying i have to do) so i retreated from linux and went back to windows,
now i realy realy want to use linux at least as my main os if not only,
but i dont feel like i can be reliant upon my ablety to work this out,
not without help (if i could afford to work this out by myself and maybe crash a few times i would),
now to work it out i need your help,
1) i need to know that i can get the things i need on linux one way or another (if it means that i need to double boot to keep the gui database manager (aka mssql) then i need help with that so i can do it relyably and not corrupt all the data on my hard disk),
2) i need to find a way to be able to know that even if i did somthing teribly wrong that it's not going to be to bad and that il'l be able to get things the way they were before (somthing like restore points on windows would do the job, or if i can take an image of the entire disk every week and know that i can allways go back (i don't know how to do that)),
3) if there are things i need that i can do with windows and not linux i need to find a way to solve it,
4) i need to know how to get help along the way when things go sideways, and that i well not be stuck two weeks from now trying to figur out how to do somthing i realy need...
in summary:
i basicly need somone to guide me through it,
obviesly not every step of the way (because then i well not learn) but when i'm starting to lose it or when i need things to happened and dont have the time to learn everything there and then
if you can give me any kind of advice i well Appreciate it a lot