Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel/General Computing Terminology Resource

2020-01-19 Thread Ade Malsasa Akbar
Hello jaisgossman, you are welcome. I am really glad to hear your opinion!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel/General Computing Terminology Resource

2020-01-19 Thread jaisgossman
This a great list! I only have clicked computerhope thus far, but by the titles, I can see these will be very helpful. Thank you

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel/General Computing Terminology Resource

2020-01-06 Thread Ade Malsasa Akbar
> I'm looking for a catch-all terminology resource that is not necessarily > specific to Trisquel, but would fit well into a Trisquel auto-didact's > literature. Hello jaisgossman! There are some computer terminology resources I love and find out: - http://foldoc.org (once recommended by The

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel/General Computing Terminology Resource

2020-01-06 Thread jaisgossman
Goals are great. My problem is I just end up writing poetry while I'm trying to learn.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel/General Computing Terminology Resource

2020-01-02 Thread ewindes
Right. These forums and the IRC channels are really helpful. You can do everything on Parabola that you can do on Trisquel. The main difference is after you install it, you literally just have a terminal. So you have to do everything "by hand" like creating user, installing your DE if you

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel/General Computing Terminology Resource

2020-01-02 Thread jaisgossman
Great sources. Here's a thought. I have encountered RSS as a way to take in information, a lot at a time and in a focused way, but I don't have the skill set to begin implementing this as a practice. For instance, I learn the most from these forums, and everything else on the internet

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel/General Computing Terminology Resource

2020-01-02 Thread jason
"the directory structure of Trisquel" Specifically for that, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel/General Computing Terminology Resource

2020-01-02 Thread ewindes
Yeah it would be easier to help if we knew what you're trying to learn in the first place. My experience with Linux has mainly revolved around just kind of configuring my system. For example, I set up i3wm to be totally usable with just a touchscreen tablet or something like that. There

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel/General Computing Terminology Resource

2020-01-01 Thread trisquellist
I thought you were looking for a dictionary explaining the meaning of computing terms, but "something like" a list of shortcuts sounds very different.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel/General Computing Terminology Resource

2020-01-01 Thread jaisgossman
perhaps something specific I saw a while ago was a cheat card that gave shortcuts for using emacs (I think?). maybe something like this, that can help me understand the directory structure of Trisquel.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel/General Computing Terminology Resource

2019-12-15 Thread strypey
Is this the kind of thing you're looking for jaisgossman? https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html

[Trisquel-users] Trisquel/General Computing Terminology Resource

2019-12-14 Thread jaisgossman
I'm looking for a catch-all terminology resource that is not necessarily specific to Trisquel, but would fit well into a Trisquel auto-didact's literature. I am learning things, but I have often found myself further ahead than I should be, leading to problems and frustrations that set me