Where do I go to get started! Congrats

Hi, friends! So happy to have earned 525 points by completing first two courses. Definitely appreciate the learning and support opportunities from Jeff, the team, and all of you. Thank you so much from Sunny San Diego!

....and, I just found out I can try Ubuntu on it!!!!!!! :https://ubuntu.com/download/raspberry-pi

I would like to build an email server at some point. I will need to stop it from logging out for sure first off. I’m interested to see how it does.

It is an SBC, a single board computer. Yes this is a real computer in a small package. It runs lightweight Linux distros and is really good for dedicated projects like a file server, retro games, etc. Also a great system to start learning Linux on 😎

Having a blast distro hopping! Loading distros on a disk or thumb drive and test driving them is a great way to get some basic hands on experience with the way various Linux distros (Mint, Ubuntu, Manjaro, Fedora, Zorin, etc) and the respective desktop environments (Cinnamon, Mate, Budgie, Xfce, etc) actually function in real life and how your particular machine will run them.

What I have found is that distros I thought I’d like I do not and some I thought were underwhelming from a video review ended up doing exactly what I wanted.

Even got a friend to give me a second old laptop so I can run 2 distros fully at once to help learn the various systems.

They are great for media servers from room to room as well. I use pi4s now, very robust for such a tiny package. I run my own personal family email server, irc, web, ftp, VPN router... Their uses are endless.

I installed mint with no issues on my laptop and everything works well. Are other distros harder to configure for different systems?

You are very welcome! The Ethernet cable looks like a bigger version of the old phone cord. Your router should have at least 4 ports that can host these.

You can check if your MacBook has a port that is similar.

I have it on a 2015 Macbook Air right now. Works wonderfully with Linux Mint and it comes out of the box with the driver for the Broadcom wireless ready to go.

to newbies (from a newbie)... listen (re-listen) to Jeff's 'daily' audio chats... take notes... scan thru the JP's technology chat channel... do some internet searches... do some YouTube searches... read a book... don't expect "THEM" to do it for you -- that was the mindset that got us into the technology mess we are in today... WE CAN DO THIS if we put in the time and effort! And we have ROADBLOCK HELPERS in this amazing community! We will remain STUCK for a FAR SHORTER TIME than some of these mentors!! Don't give up! You are not too late!!

Here is a audio recording of tonight's Telegram voice call for those who were not able to be there live. On tonight's call, we talked about what is being revealed about closed operating systems, and how to liberate yourself from "big tech" abuses by switching your technology to Linux. We discussed our new Linux for Beginners courses, how our Learning Management System (LMS) will work, and what to expect. We reflected on our great Technology chat room, it's one of a kind, already the biggest and best on Telegram after a few short weeks.

Best wishes to you, Patriots, as you set out to discover the very exciting world of Free and Open Source technology. If you, like many other Americans who love their country, are ready to leave the spying and abuses of the "big tech" Windows/MacOS/Android operating systems, Linux is Digital Freedom!

I love listening to you. Just love it. I've heard many of your stories multiple times but it just pounds the data into my head the more I hear it. I'm so excited/proud to be in the first class. Yay. And I've completed both courses and actually listened to them both more than once. I've already downloaded Ubuntu on my laptop but i haven't done much since. Don't quite know where to go from here. Lol. I'll looking forward to Travelling on this journey. My favorite quote of yours is " Nancy Pelosi is a drunk". Lol. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you

I finally decided to update my Ubuntu to version 20.04. I postponed this decision a lot because I loved the abandoned Unity interface. But with some tweaks and extensions I managed to make Gnome look similar, maybe even prettier with the great Orchis theme. After about 10 years, welcome back, Gnome!

I love what you are doing Jeff. A few months I ago somehow managed to down load Linux alongside Windows on my hp and have been using it ever since. Never going back. Then a couple of nights ago I completely replaced Windows on our older Asus laptop with Linux. It took me 4 or 5 hours, because I had to fiddle with the boot order (even though I had NO idea of what I was doing - just watched Youtube videos). I made lots of newbie mistakes of course, but it finally worked and I loaded all the updates and stuff. That little old laptop runs so very well now! Now I just have to figure out how to remove Windows completely from my hp. I'm using Gparted. But I'm so clueless that I can't really figure out which partition I should delete for sure. So I'll wait until I know more. Taking your class ;) Thank you so much for what you are doing!