What is mageia generally used for
Posted: Aug 26th, '12, 04:22Greetings,
I have been using mageia since #1 and have before that I was using mandriva since 2010.xx.
There are a few reasons I haven't been able to contribute around here. I am very poor at the moment and cant even afford a new keyboard(I borrowed this one since someone spilt drink on my laptop). Since using Mageia I have learned alot about linux, it has been the most friendly distro I have came across although I know that in the end its just another linux.
My laptop is a old toshiba dual core, nothing special about it at all except linux is its only system. I started with linux by learning about the package manager once I figured out how that worked things got alot eaiser. Then I brought a few books on bash and commandline scripting that I am yet to read, for the moment I am dedicated to learning C++ which I just love learning.
Funnily enough understanding some linux has helped me to better understand my view of programming. When I was 15 or 16 I remeber trying to learn C++ code and just getting completely frustrated, now ten years later my maths is still pretty crap and my gramma skills have gone backward 100fold but I can look at the c++ code and understand it alot better, I thank linux for that being able to understand a couple things has helped my mind to map out things I didn't think I was capable of learning.
Like I said I am very poor at the moment. Most of my free time is dedicated to learning C++. I expect that to take another year or two before I start getting somewhere useful to myself. I have no quailfications in anything. I just like computers and if I could have it my way I would be doing it fulltime all the time.
Enough ranting anyway I have to give the keyboard back now. My question is:
I noticed that mageia has been ranked number 2 on distrowatch, I was just wondering what exactly mageia is mainly used for....desktop or....and what are mageias strengths because thats what im having trouble with googling.
thank you very much
I have been using mageia since #1 and have before that I was using mandriva since 2010.xx.
There are a few reasons I haven't been able to contribute around here. I am very poor at the moment and cant even afford a new keyboard(I borrowed this one since someone spilt drink on my laptop). Since using Mageia I have learned alot about linux, it has been the most friendly distro I have came across although I know that in the end its just another linux.
My laptop is a old toshiba dual core, nothing special about it at all except linux is its only system. I started with linux by learning about the package manager once I figured out how that worked things got alot eaiser. Then I brought a few books on bash and commandline scripting that I am yet to read, for the moment I am dedicated to learning C++ which I just love learning.
Funnily enough understanding some linux has helped me to better understand my view of programming. When I was 15 or 16 I remeber trying to learn C++ code and just getting completely frustrated, now ten years later my maths is still pretty crap and my gramma skills have gone backward 100fold but I can look at the c++ code and understand it alot better, I thank linux for that being able to understand a couple things has helped my mind to map out things I didn't think I was capable of learning.
Like I said I am very poor at the moment. Most of my free time is dedicated to learning C++. I expect that to take another year or two before I start getting somewhere useful to myself. I have no quailfications in anything. I just like computers and if I could have it my way I would be doing it fulltime all the time.
Enough ranting anyway I have to give the keyboard back now. My question is:
I noticed that mageia has been ranked number 2 on distrowatch, I was just wondering what exactly mageia is mainly used for....desktop or....and what are mageias strengths because thats what im having trouble with googling.
thank you very much
