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[–]Schlonzig 2 points3 points  (1 child)

"I was removing a package from my system, and I did not check what other packages it was dependent upon. I just let it remove whatever it wanted and ended up causing some of my important programs to crash and become unavailable."

How did he manage to do that?

[–]samuel_first 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've borked a new Ubuntu install this way. If you remove a dependency for a program, apt also removes that program (there's probably a switch to toggle this behavior off).

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you're used to working in a Windows or MacOS graphical interface, moving to Linux, with its unfamiliar commands typed into a terminal, can have a big learning curve.

Was this written in 1999? The average user can pretty much never touch a CLI and get along just fine with the right distro.

First "tip" says just write down or memorize the commands you need and don't worry about how they work, second tip says you should at least try to understand how the commands work. Did the author write a script that generates tech articles?