Sudo /Ubuntu/WordPress
In February 2019, I made the switch from the Microsoft Windows OS to the popular Linux Ubuntu OS. This was primarily due to the loss of the OS that came pre-installed on my HP Pavilion 5 PC. I had backed up the data on the PC to the cloud via Microsoft Onedrive and had the full PC backed up via the Windows Backup utility. Unknown to me, the Windows backup utility only restores the backup using the installation that was used for the backup. Hence, I couldn’t restore the backup I had made because the technician installed a pirated Windows OS on my PC.
In an unregulated market (Nigeria) where Internet access is not mainstream, it is very easy to get pirated software, primarily because they come cheap and are easily available. Well, I had in the past made a commitment to use only original software except if I find myself in situations where I am left with no choice. In this case, I figured I had a choice — Ubuntu.
Sometime in 2007, I found out about a really cool OS that goes by the name Ubuntu, a Linux distro. I had been reading up on various operating systems around that time. I learned about Sun Solaris OS, Macintosh (Mac OS), and Linux (which had quite a number of variants called distros). I registered with canonical and had an Ubuntu disc sent to me at home in Nigeria from South Africa (Ubuntu is a South African word and canonical is a company founded by a South African), That Ubuntu disc meant a lot to me and it helped me with troubleshooting/restoring systems [in the office] that had problems because I wouldn’t need to install a new OS on them. All I did was from the disk and it was cool. I had been won by Ubuntu!
For about 10 years, I hardly ever had to use/install the OS Ubuntu until I lost the Windows 10 installation on my HP PC. I had to run back to my long-lost friend — Ubuntu! I downloaded the software from the ubuntu website and installed it immediately. Easy!
I fetched my files from the cloud and an old backup in an external USB HDD.
I had been working on a few sites via WordPress on Windows and I never had a single problem from installation to implementation. On Ubuntu, however, it has not been so easy. This of course is mostly due to Linux’s reliance on the command line for many operations, basic or advanced.
The main challenge I encountered wasn’t really the installation of WordPress, rather after I installed WordPress and I thought all was well, I found out I couldn’t install/update my plugins. I kept seeing the error…
I braced up, saw it as a challenge that needed to be surmounted, and did I win the challenge? I would think so.
In order to finish the website projects I was having difficulties with on Ubuntu, I had to migrate to another PC. This time, a Windows 10 PC. When I was through, I focused on relearning the Linux OS. I have since immersed myself into the Linux system and considered the LPI certifications, but it seems Windows 10 won’t let me go without a fight.
