What is the easiest way to learn linux?

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I am a machinist with about 10 years of experience. I want to learn Linux. I tried to do it with Debian, but something didn’t work, since that moment I haven’t tried it again. Tell me where you can start and where to move, what literature can you use?

Answer 1

I am a pedestrian with let's say 30 years. I want to learn how to swim. I tried to do it on the river, but something went wrong, and from that moment I didn’t go to the river anymore. Tell me where to start and what to read to learn how to swim?
Funny? The answer to your question - you just need real experience. Whatever you do, swimming only after listening to advice and reading books will not work

Answer 2

I've only been familiar with Linux since last year. It started with the fact that instead of illegal software (broken Kerio on broken WS2008), the organization decided to use legal and free - Ubuntu with a Squid proxy server. Along the way, the question arose about the firewall - in a couple of days I mastered the basics of IPTABLES. Further - more: questions appeared (asked on the ubuntu.ru forum ), new requests appeared (we need Squid user statistics - for this you need to raise an HTTP server, you need statistics in general on protocols and IP - raise bandwidthd, and he, in turn, writes data in the database, and in order for it to write to the database, you need to raise either MySQL or Postgresql, etc., etc.), and it started spinning to the point that now I don’t want to deal with small soft ones at all. As a result - Ubuntu on my desktop, and even on my girlfriend's laptop :)
The first book I read was M. Kofler. linux. Installation, setup, administration...
Now I read - Unix and Linux. System Administrator's Guide
Magazine - Linux Format
The best Russian-language videos about Linux, IMHO, from Yandex (reviewed everything with great pleasure) - Information technology courses
Recently, a free training course "Introduction to Linux" also appeared on stepic.org , I liked it.
In addition, there are many different video courses on torrent trackers, for example, from the Specialist website , but they seemed long and tedious to me.

Answer 3

Start with this:
Put any distribution on a virtual machine, you can do several at once
Perform basic actions - setting up something, managing software. Do the most different nonsense until you stumble upon a glitch. Solve it with google or mana. And do not be afraid to break something - you can take snapshots of the state with a virtual machine.
From here, there will already be a little experience, an understanding of the structure and the general difference between distributions will appear. Somewhere one action will be automated (in popular distributions), somewhere you will have to figure it out.
After a general understanding of working with the OS, you yourself determine in which direction you should move. Put the selected distribution on real hardware, encounter jambs of drivers (if you don’t, it’s a pity, this would be useful for the general development of skills).

Answer 4

Why didn't it work with Debian?
If you want to get all the basics in full, then you can look at, for example, www.gentoo.org or https://www.archlinux.org
For a quick start www.ubuntu.com

Answer 5

Because you have to start with Ubuntu

Answer 6

For learning I would recommend Gentoo - manual installation, no graphics or LSF Linux. there you have to do a lot with your hands, there will be more understanding of how it works.
There is a quick way - install Linux (any) and do the task you need in it (you want to study for something, right?)

Answer 7

From books, I would advise you to read www.amazon.com/Linux-System-Administration-Handboo... first . Otherwise, you will already find quite a few literature on Linux ...
But before you take up the book, you first need to decide on the distribution kit and install it.
And most importantly, decide what you need this OS for, and what approach you need.
Bottom to top: Gentoo or Arch Linux
Top to bottom: Debian or Slackware & etc.
Ubuntu or Mint, and the like would not recommend. Because these are ready-made packages and it is not a fact that you will then want to study something without having "problems".
PS all of the above IMHO.

Answer 8

A question from the series "how easy it is to learn to play the organ" or "how easy it is to become an astronaut."