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I'm starting my foray into linux and programming today after thinking about it on and off for a few years and would like to dink around in Vim and python while learning Linux. Instead of frying my os's and storage drives due to trivial mistakes/typos and never getting my AMD card or sound working when trying to install Gentoo like an idiot for a few days, I'd like to know if there is a persistent programmer friendly USB based Linux that has vim that I can experiment on. I don't need all the bells and whistles and I know the bare-basics of command line. I'm curious if I really can get to a point where I do pretty much everything from command line. I just want to be able to listen to some music or something while going through my python tutorials and books, I downloaded those free MIT comp science courses as well. SliTaz didn't support my keyboard for some reason, I chose US non accented IDK. I'm know a bit about systemrescuecd and am currently running calculate linux desktop xfce off a 4gb flash drive. I'm going to do my Practical Vim and Learn Python The Hard Way Exercises after I finish vimtutor, I also tried that vim adventure, but I'm not going to pay for it. I tried using Levinux-master in windows, and while I appreciate it for what it is, I'd rather use a real operating system if possible. Really anything would work I guess, but It would be cool to have some persistence so I can focus on the exercises and also so I can get an idea of the Linux experience that I enjoy for later. Any other advice for a new guy like me? I guess I could have posted this somewhere else probably, but I'm planning on learning the VIM way on my own for awhile and maybe taking a coding bootcamp after a year or two as a backup or new career. I'm poised to make lower end programming wages anyway after completing my 3 year Union Ironworker apprenticeship, but that will break my body down possibly. Quaint Quail Quilt fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Feb 24, 2016 |
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Thanks! I Think porteus would serve my needs in the meantime. I wasn't planning on using emulation until I get my next machine and Vga passthrough matures a little bit. I speed read and have picked up a lot about linux and a fuzz about programming (osmosis), I'll be sure to follow cobol now instead of just joke yosps. I think I read the entirety of linux on desktop thread for example. Quaint Quail Quilt fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Feb 24, 2016 |
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Feb 24, 2016 09:58
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sharktamer posted:You could try using pythonanywhere too. Noted, It's good to know things exist for later. Vim is probably my first step though, I'll even have a new way to play rougelikes and muds now, hopefully be doing more productive things in the future though. I suppose I could get another SSD, I'm just scared of grep and fuzzy on partitioning linux and such for dual boot, virtualization will be extremely cool once vga passthrough becomes ubiquitous.
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