New Trisquel user, looking for focus
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Hello, I am very glad to have gotten Trisquel up and running. Right now I am still running a dual boot with windows 7 but I am hoping the more I learn here, the less I will need my windows installation and perhaps some day be done with it altogether.
I have run ubuntu in the past and I have taken a class on linux and bash commands but it has been quite some time and most of that has been forgotten. I have resolved to start using trisquel because it seems you have a friendly community and I am growing tired never knowing what my computer is doing, even though it is MY computer. Very strange.
The problem for me is finding an area to focus on. I am overwhelmed by the amount of things to learn with GNU linux. There is the terminal, drivers, programming (I know some basic and java and that is it), all the processes running in the background (a lot like windows but I assume these can actually be better understood, also understand this whole concept of a linux kernel. There is just so much to learn so I definity appreciate any advice on where to start.
Hi there!
I'd say start with the Synaptic package manager under system settings. See how things are arranged and what it can do for you. What kind of packages are offered. Learn about dependencies and how those are automatically resolved for you. Remove the older kernels you probably have. (linux-image-...) Select a fast mirror.
Welcome and have fun!
"I am overwhelmed by the amount of things to learn with GNU linux. There is the terminal, drivers, programming (I know some basic and java and that is it)"
just to confirm learning how to program use the terminal or understand how the Linux kernel works is not required for using a gnu/linux system
my grandma knows very little about computers and is fine using it
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however learning these things can be very usefull
and its always a good thing to understand how your system works
and if you learn how to program then you can change anything in your system(providing its libre)
as for were to start learning about gnu/linux
this rely depends on what you want to know
but if you just want to understand your system better
a good start would be learning about the directory structure
gnu/linux uses a different directory system from windows
instead of having different drive names like c:/ a:/ d:/ etc
gnu/linux uses a single "root" directory
so just
/ and everything is below this directory
if you want to see your root directory
on trisquel just goto the file manager and under devices select computer
this link may help you understand a bit better:
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/09/linux-file-system-structure/
and feel free to ask about stuff you dont understand
Learn how to use apt-get and some basic tools like ls, mkdir, touch, nano and such. That helps me all the time, as I love the terminal, in my opinion you work more efficiently in a console envorinment than a Graphical User Interafce environemnt.
Just learn some low level programming language, or a language that allow low level control (like C/C++). Through all the process, you will learn what you need to know about computers (including terminal and drivers). Once you have finish with that, if you want to know every single thing your computer does, then you just need to read all the source code of all the software you wanna install on your computer (and compile it yourself, obviously). Luckily, you have the full source code in a 100% free software world like this :)
true learning c teaches you alot heres some good tutorials:
this person makes some very good tutorials:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0170B6E7DD6D8810
they use m$ window$ in the tutorial but the code will work just the same on gnu/linux
Ooh. Imma' do that tutorial soon.
Learn Python too. It's easy to learn, you can learn to type it as-fast-as-hell and I great for administrative tasks too and automation and such.
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