Hey folks,

I’m putting together a Linux Beginner Survival Box as a birthday gift for a good friend of mine. She’s relatively new to Linux and will soon be working more independently with it at her job – likely managing some basic sysadmin tasks, working on the CLI, etc.

So I figured: let’s make a fun, slightly silly but also useful gift box to prepare her for the ups and downs of life at the terminal. Here’s what I’ve got so far:

A CLI Cheat Sheet poster

A VIM Cheat Sheet mousepad

The O'Reilly book “Linux in a Nutshell”

A bootable USB stick (Ventoy + various Live ISOs)

An Ubuntu mug + cold brew tea (she's not into coffee)

A plush Tux

A T-shirt that says “Sysadmin – because even developers need heroes”

A pack of candy penguins

And lots of penguin stickers

Now I’d love to hear from you all: Any ideas for small, funny, practical or nerdy items to add? Things that helped you early on? Or just anything that would make a new Linux user smile during a rough day at the terminal?

Thanks in advance!

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