Best resource to learn Linux basics fast

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x3mech@reddit

The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction.

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Serious-Salamander44@reddit

I will just

https://labex.io/linuxjourney

yeah that should work

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Fine_Yogurtcloset738@reddit

https://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.en.html

Just choose a command you want to learn about and go use them in real situations. I recommend the text-processing section first. This your best bet because the GNU docs are FUCKING GOOD.

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jjesus@reddit

The resource I recommend for junior software engineers at my company: The Missing Semester of your Computer Science Education

https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

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Odd-Possibility-7435@reddit

There is a book called the Linux bible

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HandDazzling2014@reddit

There is a new version releasing in December 10, and according to the author, there are significant changes.

Asked him myself:

In the five years since the previous edition, a lot of things broke or changed. I cut back aging content (GNOME 2, SysV Init, and iptables) to make room. I focused on simplified firewall tools (firewalld and UFW), using authselect to manage PAM, setting up a developer desktop, and using install tools like Snap, Homebrew, and Flatpak. I added a new chapter on setting up an AI chatbot in Linux (some SLMs and LLMs run great on CPUs) and I tested and fixed procedures through the entire book.

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birchhead@reddit

Been googling, what you mean by new version December 10?

10 edition was 2020, is there a new version? Have a very old O’Reilly book that should probably be replaced

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HandDazzling2014@reddit

The author is publishing a new edition of the book on Amazon Prime on December 10th

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Natural_Tea484@reddit (OP)

Woooow.... It has solid reviews. Thanks!

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Loptical@reddit

Daily driving works great to dive in and just learn. If that's not feasible then WSL or a VM.

I'd also recommend OverTheWire. It's gamified learning of Unix commands that you use pretty often!

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Consistent-Hold-6069@reddit

Hack the box

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JBachm@reddit

Best way is to use Linux. Select a distro and read yourself into it step by step as you encounter the problems of your daily life.

Stackexchange offers a nice overview about most topics.

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Beautiful_Crab6670@reddit

As far as I know, there is nothing "otherworldly" regarding "linux basics" other than being aware what is your distro's package manager and how to use it.

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anh0516@reddit

man and info

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Beautiful_Crab6670@reddit

This lad "Linuxes".

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Natural_Tea484@reddit (OP)

:))

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archover@reddit

I would start here: How Linux Works, 3rd Edition: What Every Superuser Should Know 3rd Edition by Brian Ward (Author)

Have a great day.

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PigBenis1000@reddit

The best resource for me was finding an old laptop I didn’t care about and running weird shit on it

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Ephemeral-Pies@reddit

Couple more helpful resources:

https://overthewire.org/wargames/ http://cheat.sh/

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thisishaard@reddit

The Linux foundation as this great basics course and you also get a certificate, like someone else also said daily driving it will help a lot

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JagerAntlerite7@reddit

O'Reilly's "Learning the bash Shell, 3rd Edition" book; see https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-the-bash/0596009658/

It is $24.99 USD on Amazon; see https://a.co/d/bGoSqHl

I like hardcopies when learning new things. Decades ago, I sat down with "Learning Perl" over a weekend and automated all my junior UNIX admin tasks. All of them — then told no one for months.

Install WSL2 or open your MacOS Terminal and get started. Have fun. I believe in you. You got this.

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Natural_Tea484@reddit (OP)

Thanks

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gliese89@reddit

https://www.amazon.com/Software-Developers-Guide-Linux-no-nonsense/dp/1804616923?s=books

I have not read this. But the guy who wrote it has Youtube videos that I think are well done.

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Natural_Tea484@reddit (OP)

Imterwsting!

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mitch_feaster@reddit

Linux from scratch

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tacomato@reddit

How Linux Works, and The Linux Command Line

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ASIC_SP@reddit

I have a list of learning resources for CLI tools and scripting here: https://learnbyexample.github.io/curated_resources/linux_cli_scripting.html

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Left_Revolution_3748@reddit

Learn Linux with practice

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mmmboppe@reddit

Linux is like Geometry, there are no royal roads.

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nply@reddit

Personally I don't think trying to "learn Linux" from books or even videos like you might with a language or scientific topic is a good idea. It would be like reading a book in order to learn how to play a computer game or how to use Reddit.

Unless you just want to know about the purely technical underpinnings of the Linux kernel, you'd be far better off just picking a distribution and doing stuff with it that you actually want to do: Build a home server, customize your desktop, automate downloading your favorite YouTube videos, setup an LLM in Docker or something.

Whenever something doesn't work, look it up in the man pages or on the internet, ask questions, watch a video etc. That's how you learn to do things with Linux.

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UUDDLRLRBadAlchemy@reddit

This hill-climbing approach can lead to local peaks. I.e. get you stuck with a suboptimal method that's just good enough.

Learning tricks might be the only thing you've got when working with proprietary black boxes, but it won't really lead to a deeper understanding of how the boring parts work, so you can eventually contribute.

Taking a step back to understand the history, norms and practices that bring this community together has its own value.

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quadralien@reddit

This. Choose something you want to achieve and figure out how to do it with Linux. Goal-oriented learning works!

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rahulrajaram@reddit

To learn the theoretical aspects, I would study Operating Systems (Silberschatz), Linux Kernel Development and the Linux Programming interface over a course of 2 years in that order.

To learn practical Linux skills, I think any book on Linux commands would do. I found 100 Linux commands (or something like that) from the late 90s very inspiring, but that was 10 years ago. You could consider asking ChatGPT to devise you a list of 30 most useful CLI programs/commands. From there, I would drill down into various usages of each of them. For instance, there is bunch of ways to use grep. I would extend this approach to asking a GPT to build you automation for ideas that you have to make your life easier and spend time studying and critiquing its output.

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Liam_Mercier@reddit

Just download linux and use it to do things, you will learn quickly.

After one or two times using a terminal command I usually remember it or remember that it exists and can look up the documentation. I suspect you will have the same experience.

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PlainBread@reddit

I've heard good things about this one:

https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Linux-System-Administration-Handbook/dp/0134277554

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SeriousPlankton2000@reddit

The man pages. Or if you're a masochist, the info pages (pinfo is better than info). For perl use perldoc.

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Venturefarther@reddit

Do stuff and ask an llm to explain it to you. Ask for commands ask them to be explained and just keep asking why

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bmullan@reddit

Youtube Watch and learn..

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UNF0RM4TT3D@reddit

I always recommend installing ArchLinux to people wanting to read. If you follow the install guide and look up everything it tells you need to do, you'll get a good understanding as to what makes a modern Distro tick and how to administer it.

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Omer-Ash@reddit

True. For a distro that is deemed "not good for beginners", Arch is very easy to setup and use if you read the ArchWiki. Everything is laid out in great detail, leaving almost no room for questions.

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Lezigue@reddit

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Rosetta#Verification_and_repair

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TroPixens@reddit

Use Linux you’ll learn what you need

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ItyBityGreenieWeenie@reddit

Linux for Dummies :) /actually a good reference

I'd just install a user friendly distro and get it running to get your feet wet. I like Linux Mint. Then install something more involved like Arch, Debian or even Slackware. Do as much as you can in the terminal. The basics are really similar to any Unix: learn the shell. Then experiment with Linux kernels, file system and directory structure. Install applications through the graphical manager and manually with a package manager. Run the system updates. Setup multiple users and play with permissions. You learn best by doing.

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TxTechnician@reddit

I went to an online college. And a requirement for attendance was to post at least 5 times with a minimum of 100 words.

This one guy would start every comment with:

good day fellow student, I hope you are doing well, thank you for speaking with me on this matter.

Some teachers let him get away with it.

Made me laugh everytime.

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Natural_Tea484@reddit (OP)

Haha

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wackyvorlon@reddit

Scroll through this:

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html

Look up bash scripting and bash one-liners.

And spend some time using the command line exclusively.

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Natural_Tea484@reddit (OP)

Thanks ! That looks well structured

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nearlyFried@reddit

The Linux Command Line book. Free.

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Zebra4776@reddit

Gentoo Handbook. Install it.

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CheapThaRipper@reddit

I've been watching a lot of " you suck at programming " on YouTube, he has a lot of videos that teach you bash basics that I never knew despite tinkering with Linux for years and years

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kompetenzkompensator@reddit

https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/introduction-to-linux/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWbUDq4S6Y8

https://labex.io/linuxjourney

https://itsfoss.com/resources/

https://linuxize.com/

https://killercoda.com/pawelpiwosz/course/linuxFundamentals

https://linuxcommand.org/

https://ryanstutorials.net/

https://linuxsurvival.com/

https://github.com/bobbyiliev/101-linux-commands

https://github.com/bobbyiliev/introduction-to-bash-scripting

https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

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Significant_Pen3315@reddit

i personally jus picked up any distros and searched up whatever i needed to do copy pasted commands at first then got used to it

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TxTechnician@reddit

https://linuxcommandlibrary.com/

Downlaod the app, its super handy as a quick reference.

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use_a_name-pass_word@reddit

This is an old one but it's still good

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtK75qxsQaMLZSo7KL-PmiRarU7hrpnwK&si=UgPevmgcO_G_5-i_

If you want strictly commands, this is a good one

https://youtu.be/ZtqBQ68cfJc?si=81HjRDWkPjbXue21

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Both_Love_438@reddit

Try daily driving it for a bit. It's cool to learn the basics but without practice, you will forget. If you can make a partition or at least a VM, install Debian or something similar, and try to do your normal computer work, you'll learn stuff out of necessity, and you will remember it.

If you're a dev, you may come to find that your workflow is actually a lot simpler and faster on Linux than it is on Windows, and its shell is somewhat similar to Mac afaik (haven't really used Mac, but I'm pretty sure both are POSIX compliant) so you won't feel completely lost if you've used a Mac.

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RhubarbSpecialist458@reddit

Good playlist going through the basics one topic at a time, don't let the low viewcount fool you, the stuff is spot on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMnrwbMaTwk&list=PL0kuMt886IN1Isk8J4ee-z-BvWG-iE-R3

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0b0101011001001011@reddit

For learning, there is never a fast way. I have no better answer to offer unfortunately, because I'm not familiar with good resources. But as a follower or various programming subreddits, anyone looking for anything "fast" is guaranteed to fail.

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BlokZNCR@reddit

some useful youtube channels and also online free tutorials out there. you can pick one them up for your needs.