So as everyone knows by my username I'm a huge fan of Linux, and I've been using Linux fully on my laptop for a little over a year now. Needless to say over the course of this time period there has been a lot and I mean a lot of distro hopping. I've tried a variety of Linux distros ranging from Debian/Ubuntu based, to Arch Linux, and I finally found a home on Fedora. But now that I've found the distro for me I don't really know what to do anymore. I know for a fact that I want to learn more about Linux but I don't really know where to start. So finally the question arises, what's next?
1st Question: that you need to ask yourself.
What is it that you want from Linux.
2nd Question:
What do you want to learn.
What is it I want from Linux?: I simply want it to provide me with the best user experience possible.
What do I want to Learn?: Well quite simply anything anything that could be of use to me, more or less skills that will take me from being a moderate user to an advanced user.
Also thanks for the tip wolfofthepast, I might have to give that a read.
I never read it, that is the best part.
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Sorry, I guess I'm looking to learn more about the following.
- Bash scripting
- Config files
- New terminal commands
- Systemd
- ETC...
Also wolfofthepast, I laughed so hard when I read your comment, I'm surprised I don't have Kickstart all over my keyboard lol.
I recommend centos and slack.
Lesson 1, type and repeat.
cli:
man woman
repeat.
I might try install slackware in a VM, seeing as how Fedora is pretty nice for that. But centos is prodominently used for servers so I don't know if I'll try that or not lol.
slack is going to be the hardest linux you'll ever meet with, you should only install it if you consider yourself to be advanced linux user and understand how it works. Centos will be better.
Will it be harder than installing straight up Gentoo?
installation might not be problem, but getting anything to work might be for you.
Is that due to TGZ or for some other reason? Sorry for all the questions.\
Edit: Sorry TXZ lol
since it was while since i used it, i'm lazy; and used wiki
1) no automatic dependency resolution of software packages
2) It uses plain text files and only a small set of shell scripts for configuration and administration
3) Without further modification it boots into a command-line interface
environment. Because of its many conservative and simplistic features,
Slackware is considered to be most suitable for advanced and technically
inclined Linux users.
all info below.
Hmm, sounds interesting looks like I'm going to have some fun.
slack is great for base of any system, it just needs work... sometimes hours of it.
@wolfofthepast
good luck with fedora, its great system like centos - both are based on RHEL.
sudo yum install arch linux
That command made me laugh so hard I fell off my chair
Linux is not important to me at the moment except for using it as a tool for networking/IT. Rather learn how to use kali someday.
My server side knowledge working with devices like IBM AS400 and windows server active directory/exchange.
Ugh. Windows server.
