Talk:Main Page

Suggested Pages

Add page topics to discuss the inclusion of within this post. To start off, Here are some personal suggestions along with community provided suggestions;

What is Linux anyways?

   -TLDR of what Linux is
   -Major differences between Linux and other OS
   -Key Terms

Guide to Getting Started

   -Setting Expectations
   -Guide to Picking a distro
   -Pros and Cons of individual distros (with quirks)
   -Pros and Cons between package formats
   -Safely downloading ISO and setting up install media
   -Guide to installing Linux (with video hyperlinks)
   -Quick start guide to individual distros (with relevant 1st party wiki links)
   -Migrating user data between windows or between distros

Maintaining your system

   -Physical maintenance for any system (fans and such)
   -System Update maintenance
   -Software update maintenance
   -Security maintenance

Online and Linux Safety and Security

   -Local password and account security (screenshoting safely included)
   -Basic online safety (opsec and privacy)
   -Downloading and things safely (from github and package managers as well)
   -Safely managing local data
   -Basic Threat Modeling
   -Securing your system beyond defaults (Hardened browsers, UAC, AppArmor, SELinux, Flatseal, Secureboot, Etc.)
   -Securing your network
   -Staying up to date on current security news
   -Local Regulations

Cool sites that may be relevant for users to check out

   -alternativeto.net
   -awesome-privacy.xyz
   -chris titus windows tool

Feel Free and Encouraged to contribute more ideas! -MB (talk) 23:18, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Maybe most important commands to know "primer"? See for examples:

https://discord.com/channels/1172245377395728464/1172245377395728467/1237386711055601714

https://discord.com/channels/1172245377395728464/1172245377395728467/1237388162440105984 Kaizen (talk) 13:50, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

organization idea

> I think the Distribution list should contain dropdowns for stuff like "Arch-based Distributions", "Debian-based Distributions" for better organization

- Ryna from ATL

Electron271 (talk) 23:38, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

I like the outline! I agree with Electron about organization and it applies to all of the categories - before writing these, we should have a general idea of all our subcategories Asiliria (talk) 23:40, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

I believe we should add a languages catagorie

see above Hog (talk) 10:40, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

The wiki itself is English-only though? Madonuko (talk) 05:12, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

I believe its for programming languages, I can add a category but i wont add a button for now as the homepage structure is due to change. Atmois (talk) 07:46, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

yeh i meant programming languages lol Hog (talk) 08:13, 3 July 2025 (UTC)