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- So it took quiet some time for this first update to appear, as I had some difficulty partitioning my HDD. In the end it was a Windows problem, bug, I'm not sure.
I solved it by using a third party software, even though sadly it wasn't open source, the free version did it's job.
- I will now go into actually installing Ubuntu. Let's see how this one goes.
- Success! At least the very scary part is over, accessing the BIOS. Luckily I've done this before, so I wasn't too intimidated. I'm currently installing Ubuntu, which already at first glance has a very nice interface! So that's a big plus.
- Had a little problem when choosing the settings where to install everything. The "root file system" wasn't defined for whatever reason, but a quick Google solved the problem. Currently everything's installing and looking good.
### Second Update (22:40)
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- Though I haven't figured out how to embed this picture
### First impressions
On first glance, this seems like a very neat and minimalistic OS. Right off the bat it feels a little more responsive in some regards in comparison with windows, but this might just be the placebo-effect.
A number of tightly memorized shortcuts and muscle-memories are different, which is a little annoying (e.g. changing tabs with alt+1/2/3 instead of ctrl+1/2/3) but I think that's just a matter of time.
Other than that, it seems like it's pretty much a white paper (for a non-hardcore-geek), so no unnecessary software, gimmicks, information and all that jazz. Now the question is, if all the software, which
I'm interested in for a proper worksflow (also outside DigiZeit) is available. If that's the case, great, if not I'll have to look for a workaround.
I'll follow up on that tomorrow, as it's getting late.
Just a little comment before I log off for today: I just accidentally disabled my touchpad in the setting and am now struggling to turn it on again. I guess curiosity killed the cat. Fun times.
Update (23:30) I fixed it, painfully, but what pains me even more is the question: why even put in this setting, without at the same time giving an easy solution.
### The morning after
So I've been playing around, installing programs, etc. this morning and have to say using Linux is pretty comfortable in some regards. One thing which is really cool is being able to install programs using the
terminal. You can use a one line command to install a program, because (at least from what I've gathered so far) if you know the directory of the program and its name you simply can select it without any
graphical interface. No clients, no hidden software and toolbars which suddenly appear.
On the other hand, I've been having some trouble with certain programs. SWITCHdrive, my cloud-service of choice, sadly doesn't have a dedicated Linux client and at the moment I'm not able to install the alternative,
the ownCloud-client. Something something unmet dependencies, I'll have to get to the bottom of that. I have the feeling that after a pretty steep learning curve I'll be able to work more effeciently not just in a
Git and programming enviroment, but for work in general. It's probably a test in tenacity as well, because - oh boy - some issues get frustrating.
Still fighting with unmet dependencies and the ownCloud-Client. Somewhat the last missing piece in being able to do everything I want in Windows as well as Linux.
Hurray! I successfully solved! After a fair bit of trial and error (I was right) it worked. I think it was a version problem, so the OS version I currently use (Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS) didn't match with the version of the program I tried to install. After finding the right one, it worked as planned. I'm slowly beginning to really like the Ubuntu workflow, it feels more streamlined and organizing software, files etc. is rather easy and intuitive (after a while).
So I found another big thing: hidden files. I had to debug an Atom package and all the internet advice sent me to a hidden directory, /.atom. Couldn't find it so I searched help - again - on the internet. The dot before the name hides the directory, file or whatever. This can be solved by pushing `strg+h` inside the files or - for checking it in the terminal - `ls -a`.