Hey folks, I just got Bazzite OS KDE up and running on my PC. Being a Linux newbie, I'd love some tips, tricks, and app suggestions if you have any. 😅 Switching from Windows has been a bit of a maze with all the distros out there, so any pointers would be awesome!
The amount of tutorials out there is overwhelming. Hopefully 🙏 you guys point me in the right direction.
Edit: That is a lot of great information. I really appreciate you guys taking your time to share your experience/advice.
I wrote a few articles on my blog for people in your situation, who are mostly only familiar with Windows and/or Mac and want to learn Linux more in depth.
"Advice for people who want to learn linux" -- This article is kind of an overview of the Linux learning process. The point of this article is to teach you what it is you need to learn about so that you set your own curriculum. Once you understand what a few of the basic things are, you can look up your own tutorials on how to learn each thing.
"How to pick a Linux distro" -- This article is for people who are overwhelmed by the number of choices for Linux distro. The bottom line is: don't over-think it, just pick a mainstream distro like Mint, Ubuntu, or Fedora. There is like a 99.99% chance that each of these will just work as soon as you install it, no weird issues with audio, graphics, WiFi, BlueTooth, security updates, or anything else. Also, a lot of the "choices" you see among all those distros are only skin deep -- differences in the default theming (i.e. the default "desktop environment", a concept explained in the "advice" article above). But really they are all using the same basic software packages so there very little substantive difference between any of them except in their app stores, and the mechanism they each use install software.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask me here. I can clarify here, and also update my blog posts if you think anything is confusing.
For cli stuff I really like the tldr program (Site. It will give you a list of common use cases for a given program.
I have been struggling big time when it comes to cli commands. 😂 I needed this.
Was going to (quasi) meme post man bash, but this was much better advice
To get some more Linux good vibes watch and listen to the BDFL /j
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=k0RYQVkQmWU Revolution OS (documentary about GNU/Linux) (Multilingual) (HQ)
Maybe check out this thread: https://lemdro.id/post/8480193
I also recommend subscribing to The Linux Experiment, LearnLinuxTV and DistroTube on YouTube. Mental Outlaw also has some good Linux videos. You can also check out The Linux Cast. Chris Titus Tech also has some Linux videos, but you have to go a few years back for beginner-friendly guides. Zaney also makes great Linux videos, but it's mostly advanced stuff.
Thank you (: Mental Outlaw is one of my favourite YouTubers. He’s the reason I learned about FOSS, Digital privacy. Then, I discovered useful websites such as Privacy Guides.
It was actually the other way around for me. First I learned about Linux, started watching DistroTube, then got YouTube recommendations for Mental Outlaw videos, got more advanced in Linux and then learned about digital privacy and security.
learn how to use the command line. spend a week or so getting used to doing file operations like moving, copying, extracting, etc on the CLI to get a feel for it.
I switched to Linux in October of last year and found “The Linux Experiment” to be really helpful in keeping up-to-date with things happening in the community without feeling overwhelmed
As someone else mentioned, learn the Bash shell (Bourne Again Shell; I just said the equivalent of Automated Teller Machine Machine).
