Giving Linux another try

[JaffaCake]

Can anyone point me to a good webpage to learn terminal commands and short keys please.
Seen lots of them but would be helpful to have examples and explain paths.

 

[The Penguin]

Here some videos

 

[The Penguin]

Last video of the tutorial

 

[The Penguin]

An Introduction to the Linux Command Shell For Beginners
http://vic.gedris.org/Manual-ShellIntro/1.2/ShellIntro.pdf

Unix/Linux Command Reference
https://ubuntudanmark.dk/filer/fwunixref.pdf

 

[hoeffelt]

Either of you use antergos? Whats ur favorite distros?

 

[JaffaCake]

Thank you Penguin ^_^

hoeffelt
At the moment using Ubuntu but may switch over at some point.

 

[hoeffelt]

Thank you Penguin ^_^

hoeffelt
At the moment using Ubuntu but may switch over at some point.

I like antergos because it stays as up to date as could be and it does a good job at letting the user pick the setup, so you can have cinnamon, kde, mate, xfce, gnome shell etc. I love gnome shell, i stopped using ubuntu because i really dont like unity desktoo environment. The dash is so useless...and ubuntu has always had poor choice of color scheme. Ubuntu was my first distro way back when I was like 12, i think it was like ubuntu 7.04 haha. Damn i feel old.

 

[Bikutoso]

The free edX course goes into paths and a if I'm not mistaken a few commands. (it begins with things every grandmother could learn, and goes upwards from that)
And if you know what command you want to use is called, you can use the man pages to get further information about the command and available options.

 

[wyverary]

Depends how basic or how deep you want to go. Linux Survival might be a good place to refresh yourself on the very basics. And of course there are plenty of YouTube videos. I would additionally recommend a Linux+ textbook and the Linux Bible.

I would HIGHLY recommend working with it on a VM, that way if you screw up (and there are a zillion ways you can screw up) you can always revert back to an earlier image.

I am still of the mind that Linux will always be for the experts/enthusiasts and will probably never be suitable for the home user. But if you like to tinker, it's wonderful. There are a gazillion security issues with Linux (contrary to popular belief) but if you know your way around it you can fix it.

 

[JaffaCake]

Thank you for the reply guys.

I've always messed around with computers first one being an Acorn with the big floppy disks. Mainly been with windows tho, know a little bit of CMD and how to make a batch file.
I don't know enough to compare Linux and Windows but have been enjoying as you said tinkering and problem solving, also little things like removing\purging files without looking for them is nice.
Still pressing Ctrl + C\V silly things tho

Every system will have security holes. All the way to Windows XP you could get in without the password or user name with Netusr * and I'm told it's still just as easy through other methods.

 

[wyverary]

Thank you for the reply guys.

I've always messed around with computers first one being and Acorn with the big floppy disks. Mainly been with windows tho, know a little bit of CMD and how to make a batch file.
I don't know enough to compare Linux and Windows but have been enjoying as you said tinkering and problem solving, also little things like removing\purging files without looking for them is nice.
Still pressing Ctrl + C\V silly things tho

Every system will have security holes. All the way to Windows XP you could get in without the password or user name with Netusr * and I'm told it's still just as easy through other methods.

The Windows DOS terminal is very different from that of Unix, which is much more convoluted and varied; however, being familiar with DOS and with how to make batch files is a good start. As for security, anything can be broken (read blogs like The Hacker News and CIO et al and you'll get the idea), and it's incumbent on the network administrators to make sure things stay locked tight. In enterprise environments Linux is mostly used on servers, and then operated by people who are true experts in it; Windows, for all its flaws, at least has the ability to be controlled on the most granular of levels...start mucking around in Active Directory, Group Policy, Security Policy, and hell, maybe even an IaaS infrastructure, combined with third-party vendors, and it's simpler to lock down than most UNIX systems (though they can be done just as well, it's just more complicated). That said, I love Linux, if for no other reason than that it's a great big playground in which you can do almost anything you want if you have the knowledge. I don't have much experience with Linux, but I've learned some useful things mucking with MacOS's Terminal (Mac is basically "UNIX that works").

My recommendation? Start with some of the basics in a GUI environment (I like Mint, myself), and then thrust yourself head-on into working with a headless distro...after all, that's where all the magic of Linux happens anyway. And like I said, there are books that delve really deep into it, and having an expertise in UNIX/Linux is a HUGE boon if you are looking for jobs in the tech field.

 

[JaffaCake]

Well thank you guys for the posts. Got enough to get me started now. Will look into other's other then Ubuntu once I've found my feet. But don't worry I'll be back with many many questions.



Oh and Happy vaping and good luck started around 3 months ago and not had a cigarette since.

Edit - Seen my mistake replying to and old post. Hope it's going well tho.