yep! it's the final step in the "First Steps" section of their welcome screen. I was more surprised that Debian 13 ships without any firewall at all. You have to install firewalld or ufw to change firewall profiles.
I think I'll add a part two to the "essentials" section, explaining sudo (and why you should take a second and think if anything asks for an admin password), and where to look for help and information. I.E., forums and documentation. Also how to communicate about your problem so someone can help.
It's so incredibly frustrating when you're new to something, you run into some intractable problem, and you have neither the know-how nor the words to even explain the issue, let alone find a solution. So knowing where to start might help at least!
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I never knew Mint's firewall is off by default; if reminds me of the early version of Windows XP.
yep! it's the final step in the "First Steps" section of their welcome screen. I was more surprised that Debian 13 ships without any firewall at all. You have to install firewalld or ufw to change firewall profiles.
I think I'll add a part two to the "essentials" section, explaining sudo (and why you should take a second and think if anything asks for an admin password), and where to look for help and information. I.E., forums and documentation. Also how to communicate about your problem so someone can help.
It's so incredibly frustrating when you're new to something, you run into some intractable problem, and you have neither the know-how nor the words to even explain the issue, let alone find a solution. So knowing where to start might help at least!
Wait, my Mint install has a disabled firewall?? Oh shit