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4mo ago

The Best Way to Learn Linux

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Is to just use it
- Exactly... People hanging on to windows for dear life pretending like they had to "learn" windows
- Indeed. A cellphone with google search opened in a browser is all you need.
  
  typing on phones are so painful...
  buy a $50 thinkpad and spare yourself from the pain

To use it as your daily driver and (learn to) deal with whatever issues and question you may face? That's how I did it ;)

The problem with ArchWiki is that not everybody uses Arch. Some distros (like Fedora) do things diffrently and Arch solution do not work.
- Some stuff in the arch wiki applies to other distros, but not always.
  
  Yup, pretty much
- It's excellent for learning, though. When I started using Linux I had no idea what the differences between distros were. Having to "translate" or adapt solutions from the ArchWiki to Debian, Fedora, etc. taught me a lot about using Linux and how my computer worked.
- never had any problem. fedora, mint, pop, opensuse.
  just think for second before you do thing to system.
- Man utils sound cool tho

The best way to learn Linux for ne was to make comparison table to all the distros and to look for what I want to make decision. Whenever I got questions, I asked ChatGPT. Then, the biggest step, was just using it. As my Daily Driver. I tried dual booting / a second "tinkering laptop" and it did just not work for me.
Now I am happy and keep learning all the small details.
Feels like when I was young and got my first PC.

the wiki download thing is so nice

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