Going all in on Linux
The Motivation For the first part of my learning journey I will be reading the book "How Linux Works" by Brian Ward. I want to follow along every step of the way as I go through the chapters so I figured I can spin up a virtual machine in my Linux Academy playground and play around with that. But then I said...let's go deeper and actually install a Linux distribution on my machine. Which Linux Distro? After doing some research, I decided on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. The GNOME interface looks really nice and beginner-friendly and it's reassuring to have 5 years of support and stability for the long-term support versions. Considerations for Installation After deciding on the distro I want it's time to think about how much space I want to allocate for it. Ultimately, I decided on the following partitions: Root: 25 GB - I decided on this amount for the root to be a little on the safe side since I will probably only need ~15-20 GB. Boot: 512 MB - This i...
