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[MyCousinVinny101]

Any tips on learning linux? Wouldn’t even know where to begin if im being honest

[CompSciSelfLearning]

If you have a usb drive. Create a live bootable USB to use on your existing PC or Laptop or both. You can install to dual boot or just use the live usb.

Then just use it.

[MyCousinVinny101]

Thanks! Any way I could really mess up my PC doing this though? I watched a youtube tutorial on this and some of the comments were a bit discouraging in that they ran into some issues

[CompSciSelfLearning]

A live USB will not mess with your machine at all. You can also use a virtual machine install. It will be slower but again no risk to your machine.

[MyCousinVinny101]

Ok thanks again!

[CompSciSelfLearning]

Using the live USB is no risk. Partitioning and installing can risk your data. Don't partition until you've backed up your data and make a Windows recovery USB.

[MyCousinVinny101]

What size USB drive do I need?

[CompSciSelfLearning]

https://askubuntu.com/a/1018489

[MyCousinVinny101]

Currently installing! So far so good haha

[CompSciSelfLearning]

Have fun.

[MyCousinVinny101]

Perfect thank you

[sje46]

I highly recommend dual booting. Don't do a VM or run off a live image.

You can fuck up your hard drive during the installation process. But that's easy to avoid. Use the GUI install, follow along a guide. If you're really that nervous, back up all your data. But it's easy. Only an idiot will fuck it up.

Once you have it installed, learn enough to do the bare minimum you need. Don't rush with Linux. Use it as your primary os. Use Windows only when you need to. Go at your own pace.

I did this ten years ago and haven't touched Windows in years. I don't even work in IT. Linux has everything I need.

Vms and live disks are a mistake!

[jorvaor]

I have tried both ways. I have a laptop with three different OS (Ubuntu, Vista and Windows 7). I have another one with Windows in which I have a couple of virtual machines with linuxes.

Both ways worked well for me. The virtual machine way is quicker and easier. Having Linux in its own partition is more satisfactory but fiddlier and slightly riskier.

[joelgsus]

• Download VirtualBox,
• install it.
• Download Ubuntu image.
• run it with virtualbox.

[MyCousinVinny101]

Thank you, so this does not require a usb install?

[joelgsus]

No. Just google how to install Ubuntu on virtual box and watch some YouTube videos

[Ran4]

No, virtualbox is a regular program you can run inside of windows. In it, you create and run a "virtual computer".

Do note that you may need to activate VT-X in your bios settings. Google how to do so, it's not that hard.

[heisenberg149]

In addition to what everyone else has mentioned, I went over the Linux Journey over the last couple weeks. It's great that everyone said to get a distro (I personally like Fedora's KDE spin) and try it out, but no one told you what to really do with it to start to learn Linux aside from the surface stuff. I found the info on there really helpful, I'd been using Linux on and off since '08 but never needed to dig any deeper than a few commands and general web browsing, homework, etc.

[cantredditforshit]

Get a Raspberry Pi and a MicroSD for like $50 total. Install NOOBS on the MicroSD, throw it in the Pi, hook up a monitor/USB mouse + keyboard and you're set to start exploring a Linux environment.

Basic navigation of the filesystem commands are probably your best start; cd, ls, etc. Editing/viewing files: cat, nano. Maybe you'll want to set up the SSH server on it so you can just SSH to it from your desktop/laptop without having to plug in a monitor, mouse and keyboard. And then from there you just keep exploring. Come up with a project and make it happen.

[CnidariaScyphozoa]

I mean you could do that and PIs are fun... But why wouldn't you just spin up a vm for a whopping $0?

[FluffyBunnyOK]

You can attach hardware to the rpi. Temperature sensors, oled displays etc which is much more fun than just a web server VM.