...and it went very smoothly. I installed on a spare PC for now, but I could absolutely see this becoming my daily driver. I'm mostly surprised at how snappy and responsive it is, even on 10 year old hardware!
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I hope you find it a suitable replacement, I haven't used Windows in years thanks to Linux.
My advice, the good documentation on parts of Linux is quite literal it's best not to skim over sections. Sometimes the authors choice of words will infer answers to questions you might have.
A bit of competency in the shell/command line will go a long way, being able to view hardware (lsblk, lspci) mount drives, traverse the filesystem (ls, cp, mv, chmod etc) and a few of the basic commands for example
This should give you the ability to:
Back up all your important data from a live environment in the event that your distro is completely borked before reformatting
Gives you solid foundations to learn more in-depth parts of Linux if needed, access to internal documentation (man pages etc) from the shell itself is useful too.
Don't be afraid to dive in, it's hard to break things learning the basics if you're not root.
I am looking forward to getting more comfortable in terminal. At the very least, I know how to navigate around the file system, use SSH, and some other basic stuff. I find it hard to retain this info unless I'm learning it for a specific need/purpose, so I'll probably slowly pick it up in a random order as I have problems to solve.
You should check out the
tldrprogram. It's a community-driven quick reference tool that lists common practical examples for commands.Ooh, thanks!