linux tutorials

I’ve been mostly watching Linux tutorials these days. It’s currently the main technical thing I’m doing. It’s not like there’s much to do at home anyways when you’re a digital minimalist. Anyways, enough about me. I’ll go back to talking about Linux. I’ve finished three very long YouTube tutorials on Linux, and am currently on my fourth. Although I know watching other people do stuff is no way to learn the things yourself, it’s merely what I prefer. There’s a certain lazy angle to it, and I am by nature quite a lazy person. My laziness made me choose the CLI over GUI. My laziness is why I do most of my file management through the terminal, not through Nautilus. My laziness is why I’ve finally begun using keyboard shortcuts because my computer finally feels like mine, not someone else’s.

The first Linux tutorial was my first venture to the Linux world, and had only one quarter of an entire course’s load. It was like a free teaser into this course that was only on Udemy. I didn’t mind that I couldn’t finish it. The instructions were easy to follow, the teacher was understandable, and I enjoyed the overall process. It was five hours long though, so it did take some time. The second Linux tutorial was seven hours long. Whilst the first used Red Hat distros to do the explaining, the second focused on Ubuntu. The instructor of the third was also an Ubuntu user which may have made things easier for me to understand. The second one must’ve been seven hours, and the third five hours; all three tutorials add up to seventeen hours of viewing time.

The fourth one I’m watching (the instructor runs a past instance of Linux Mint) is nineteen hours long. This one should last me a while, at least till classes begin and I’m back to student life again. Maybe it’ll last till then. I hope it does. It is nineteen hours long after all and no layperson could finish that quickly. Anyways, I hope all this watching would be a boon for me to reach the level of an intermediate Linux user. I do plan, actually, from a few years from now to switch to Debian because Ubuntu still has that corporate taste to it that I disliked when I was on Windows (I’ve removed Windows from my dual boot-up; Ubuntu has much more space now!) and that Ubuntu is for beginner Linux users and I’ve no interest in staying with a beginner distro for the rest of my career. My reasons for wanting to switch to Debian: overachieving stability, debian package environment and apt package manger, organizational governance, and a less I’ll-hold-your-hand-as-you-install me feel to it.