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vahid, to foss in Suggest me a libre OS to try using on my new desktop PC

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I really love to test FreeBSD. But I have been advised not to do this. Because hardware support is not as good as .
Please tel us more about your experience with FreeBSD.

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@vahid @agrammatic For me hardware support on my Dell Latitude has been (almost) plug and play. It probably depends on (the ness of) your hardware. But I wouldn't recommend it if you don't like fixing things. Funny story though, the video driver for my quadro atm (470) is not supported by where has a prebuilt package ready to go.

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Open your , , or /Windows terminal and type:
python --version

It should be between 3.8 to 3.11. Anything else is just a disaster waiting to happen. There is no need to use an older version as Python no longer gets security updates.

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, , , and users often underestimate the usefulness of awk and sed - the two most powerful tools out there.

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  1. Open your , or terminal

  2. Type the following:
    python -m calendar

or

cal

  1. Enjoy!
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You can press up-arrow or down-arrow to walk through a list of previous commands in most modern shells like bash, tcsh, fish, zsh and others in / / / . Another option is to hit CTRL+R & type the command to recall. See:
help history
man bash
man fish
man zsh

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