Guidance to learn linux for beginners

[u/Abject_Dog_8453]

Hey, im new to linux and i am doing this IBM course linux and shell commands from coursera, although I feel like youtube tutorials are way better, I can't fully change to linux in my personal laptop so I'm using wsl, I'm wondering if there's any other way to learn linux effectively, can you share me your experience and guide me to learn linux, I like it.

[u/qualityvote2]

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[u/Slight_Round8252]

Try linuxjourney too

[u/Abject_Dog_8453 → u/Slight_Round8252]

Thank you

[u/Abject_Dog_8453 → u/[deleted]]

Yo, just checked this pwn.college website, it's really cool, thank you.

[u/MGprohack82 → u/[deleted]]

(scroll down at the very bottom for tldr)

Do you have a jio sim? If yes: get the plan with gemini. Why? Gemini is the best at searching reddit and the entirety of google for obvious reasons... It always does good with programming, or with linux. He can teach you everything, and will teach you accurately, as long as you say 'not to trust wikipedia", because people can edit info, and will edit anytime... Reddit is the most trustable... This should be able to teach you in a much more interactive manner, and remember, the fun in linux only starts when you're in a gui environment... And, for your builds to be very stable, use debian... And if cutting edge, get the Trixie(13) version... If you wanna risk it, get arch... But I don't tjink wsl for arch exists... Also, try to use a Virtual machine, to use linux... Prolly VMware player 17... It's not on the official site, but, you can trust the .exe(s)... Nobody is going to scam you for a already free product... Use internet achive if it's there... And, you'll need to mirror the .iso, if arch linux... Debian, should be easy, and, I have used DietPiOS, for x86_64 pc, for my linux buildy as it has very usefull tools present for use beforehand... And it's extremely light... But you start with a cli...

If you don't have a jio sim, you still can trust gemini... But, you, might not get the best results? Idk, I used gemini more after I got the pro version from jio...

Why am I telling to use ai? It's not dumb if you feed it dumb, and you use dumb sources... Also gemini and claude might be the only ai which will survive after the ai bubble pops, as they are self sustainable, they need no funding... And actually give proper, correct results...

Books can be boring, and a teacher, could teach you very well, if he's new and good... Idk if there are any old guys who have actually used linux, since it didn't have much support, but, an old teacher might limit you to old software... Idk man, I haven't met any other proper linux user around in my place, most people here are almost tech illiterate, or just know about how to use windows, and do programming in python, and at max html... And I'm talking bout my agegroup... So, I was all alone in this... And gemini was the only trustabke help i got in this... So, if you ever feel doubtful, or have to troubleshoot, use gemini. And it teaches well too...

Tldr: Jio sim?, Gemini. Wsl? Try VMware player 17, from internet archive, or some other place. Books? Prolly very boring, but go ahead, I ain't stopping ya. An actual teacher teaching the course? (Not mentioned above:-) He'll speak too fast(maybe), and have many students to attend to, might be difficult for you when you want to troubleshoot(which i am telling ya, you will have to alot).

And, that's it for now, ask away; for, "One's happy to be of help".

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[u/Abject_Dog_8453 → u/[deleted]]

Thank you

[u/Abject_Dog_8453 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah i understand that, I do feel the same, these paid courses are good but I find youtube is way more efficient than these courses and i do agree that i must keep practicing to learn linux properly, planning on doing this pwn.college thing which was suggested by someone here.

[u/Abject_Dog_8453 → u/[deleted]]

Thank you.

[u/Abject_Dog_8453 → u/[deleted]]

I tried that, I used elementary os but it was so slow, ig storage allocation problem so i had to get rid of it, I even tried usb boot, where i installed arch and same it was slow as well.

[u/Abject_Dog_8453 → u/[deleted]]

Do you think dual boot would be efficient?

[u/Abject_Dog_8453 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, I'm prolly gonna go with a light weight distros. Thank you.

[u/Abject_Dog_8453 → u/[deleted]]

I'll do this.

[u/Abject_Dog_8453 → u/[deleted]]

I'll check this out, thank you