2011-04-12 - Linux Is Weird

So there I was looking into a "Linux from scratch" project when I find out that you need Linux to make Linux. That's odd I thought, I can understand needing a Linux compiler but why do I need the whole operating system? The answer to that question is of course that “Linux Is Weird”. It's not like I don't have a version of Linux, there's on that computer over there, it's just that Linux is confusing as hell. The reason I wanted to go through was to figure Linux out. To figure out what those half dozen folders mean, to figure out where all those terminal commands go, to figure out how the damn thing works. Apparently I can't do that in windows (Likely because the people who made the book are too good for windows, phish Linux snobs), but whatever it just means more work. It'd be easier if that computer wasn't so damn slow. XP is annoying to use on it but Ubuntu runs like Molasses in the winter.

Oh well, I suppose that just makes all of it a learning experience. I wanted to figure out Linux and now I have to figure out Linux in order to do the project to figure out Linux. Maybe I should try to find a less friendly more programmer based Linux distribution to do this on, something smaller and faster. The only thing I'm really going to miss about using Linux to make Linux is notepad++. Oh notepad++ how I love you. I'm only doing this until that book on programming for Window I bought arrives anyways.