okay following linux since the 97 on and off not as a professional.
using it as my main OS for the past year.
(untill now haven’t felt comfortable with it as my desktop always had linux install as curiosity)
don’t feel very comfortable right now using it;
every time sumthing gows wrong or i need to do something i don’t know how i just learn whatever seems relavent until i get a solution.
i want to get to a point i have a linux desktop and i know every component of it…
found LFS and arch linux they seem appropriate but have no idea which one will be better.
also most of the guides are more about getting the thing running;
i whonder if there’s an online course/book/thingy similar LFS/arch or complementary to them that will focus on actual understanding how things work rather then how to get the linux desktop running…
You can look at the Linux Foundation’s System Administrator course. I am currently working on it for a required certification at work. I have been using GNU/Linix since '99, but I have been maining Debian since 2001, with ArchLinux as my secondary.
Also, could you try to add some punctuation to your post? It will get other people to respond.
I would say just go with whichever, or both?
Depending on how you prefer guides, LFS might be formulaic and more reading, Arch might have more YouTube guides?
Either way, it seems willingness to mess with a system, and practice with the right Google incantation are the two main “Linux user” requirements for the home user, or courses I guess
If you find yourself having a hard time fixing things then neither of those options is a good pick. Start with Ubuntu and learn to fix things there. Installing arch isn’t really going to teach you much beyond provisioning for Linux and LFS is just going to be a mountain for you to climb.
Welcome to Level1 @Nimrod_Bash I hope you learn a lot here.
Having experienced a similar ambition, I have some general resources for you-
1.) Info or pinfo pages – they are like man pages but written more like a book. They open in emacs pager by default, but you can use other pagers if that’s wonky for you.
2.) Red hat or centos wiki ( or whatever distro) they usually have programmer or sysadmin guides. I especially mention red hat guides because they are very well written, constantly updated and peer reviewed. They are freely viewable and can be used for centos.
3.) Red hat virtual training / Linux Foundation Training (5 day). Expensive but often worth it.
4.) Man pages – realize that these are more useful for stringing together commands or building scripts, use info or pinfo for more context, and a wiki for good workflow form.
To say it in other words, use the OS wiki in order to get the broad strokes on how to get things done in that distro, then on learning how things work down to the smallest level use the info/pinfo documentation for context and then man pages to string together commands or scripts.
