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My BIGGEST tip for learning linux! BREAK things and have no mouse! by bigdeej

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· @bigdeej ·
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My BIGGEST tip for learning linux! BREAK things and have no mouse!
Sounds crazy right? The reason I got so good at using linux is because I learned the command line! I learned how when things broke how I could use the terminal to actually fix them! I learned how when things didn't work in the graphical sides that the keyboard was the god of the computer, not the mouse! The mouse is just there for you to have something easy to use. But the real power comes from the keyboard.

- Learn keyboard shortcuts
- Learn the basic commands you will need to use all the time (ls, cat, grep)
- REMOVE your mouse and learn how to modify something like say your boot configurations or desktop configurations. Once you break them, you will begin to learn how to fix them, thus learning how they work!
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@gokulnk ·
You should also add a disclaimer saying "Don't try this on a system where you are saving your keys :P"
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@kp138 ·
Good advice. I’m learning Linux slowly but surely.
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@bigdeej ·
Stick with it, takes time but after more than 15 years of using linux (over 11 of them exclusively) it became second nature. Now I can't even use a windows machine! The freedom linux offers is also the learning curve! Be thankful you have xubuntu and things like that, when I started we compiled almost everything from scratch! I remember the day we found Ubuntu and it just worked out of the box OMG! You think it's hard today go back 15 years ago!
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@mwanjo ·
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@throwawayaccount ·
I used to do this. I used some plugin that added Vim keybindings to Firefox. Was a cool time. These days I just use my mouse for browsing etc, but pretty much I'm all keyboard when I open up the terminal. Good way to motivate yourself to do this is to get a nice Mechanical Keyboard.
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@bigdeej ·
Once you love your keyboard you know you are a real linux user =P
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@winstonalden ·
I've been going back and forth between Linux and Windows since 2006, but Windows 10 (which came on the second hand laptop I bought last year) has me switching to Linux entirely. All those constant updates! And advertising popping up when I haven't even opened a program. Last week I got a notification to "click here to start collecting Microsoft points." Are you kidding me?

Photoshop has a couple of tools that still frankly more handy than GIMP, and there are no good drivers for my Epson photo scanner in Linux. But other than that, I don't have to deal with Windows any more.
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@bigdeej ·
XUBUNTU FTW!
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@winstonalden ·
I used to run Xubuntu on the original Asus Eee PC. Solid distro. I've been a Mint man lately, though.
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