Ubuntu Mate newbie

Hey guys,

After the release from windows 10, i´ll switch my workstation to Ubuntu Mate. So as a desktop newbie, which things should i know?
I few questions from me,

  1. What is a Kernel?
  2. What is apt?
  3. Which programming language should i know to modify my system? Is this possible?
  4. What is make? (I saw this in a few software folders for Linux)
  5. What is the difference about Mate and Unity and Gnome and why love so many users Mate?

The Mainreason for switching is, iam a software developer and i love windows for Visual Studio and Office for VBA, but i hate Windows 10. I think the time is come to change…

Regards,
Tobias

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Maybe a general answer would help :slight_smile:

https://ubuntu-manual.org/

And here in this forum we have…

https://ubuntu-mate.community/c/tips-tricks-and-tutorials/tutorials-and-guides

And in the ubuntu forum we have…

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PopularPages

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Also see the beginners guide as it has many useful links!:

Thanks for the fast replys, i´ll read it.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux Tobias.

Free

Free at last.

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@Bonekit I’m relatively certain that you’ve discovered answers to your questions. For others intrigued by the title here are snippets of answers except to #5

  1. a kernel is the operating system center onto which layers are built
  2. Advanced Package Tool used for installing, maintaining, and removing software
  3. as you progress and want to compile your own kernel C++
  4. make is a utility for building and maintaining groups of programs (and other types of files) from source code

The Mainreason for switching is, iam a software developer and i love windows for Visual Studio and Office for VBA, but i hate Windows 10. I think the time is come to change

As a software developer won’t you require Win10 to test full functionality and transportability?

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Well, it is actually more a matter of taste. Mate and Gnome3 are desktop environments, Unity is more a shell build upon the core of Gnome3. If you look at it from a historical point of view: Mate is what Gnome used to be. When the Gnome team stopped developing Gnome2 and released Gnome3, Ubuntu switched to Unity and Gnome2 was renamed to Mate.

But no matter what environment you use, be it MATE, Gnome3 or Unity, they all run on the same kernel: Linux.

I know this is a rather simple answer, but hey, let’s keep it simple :smile:

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Very simple, i´ll use Virtual Box for Windows 10 and install Office and VS there. I will switch to netbeans for c++ and java, but i need office for vba and VS for C# and VB.

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