Hey /g/,
I'm installing ubuntu and have little to no idea about how linux commands or anything in linux work.
Where do I start?
You should install a VM of your Linux flavor of choice with the CLI only. Learn how the OS actually works underneath, and then work your way into the GUI side of it.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-lpic1-103-1/
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/acelan/linux-stable.git/
Get the kernel and memorize everything.
open terminal
typesudo apt-get install gentoofollowed by your password
Install it, and use it.
Google when you get a problem.
Learn about the linux filesystem, too. You'll be confused about where files go and where shit you install is unless you do this.
>>55504436
>Ubuntu
It's literally the most popular distro out there, if you run into a problem someone else has already done it before you and has a solution.
You don't need the terminal for much if you only plan to use it as a regular OS.
You don't need any GNU/Linux commands, just point and click. It's Ubuntu, it just werks
Why do you people always make these threads? Are you incapable of thinking for youselves?
>>55504436
download and install windows 10
>>55504497
>Are you incapable of thinking for youselves?
yes, most teenagers are
>>55504458
Did this and it completed successfully, What next?
>>55504466
Pretty much what I'm trying to do. After I'm familiar with Ubuntu, which distro do I jump to?
I actually am looking to learn about Cyber security. I've been a script kiddie ever since sixth grade and now that i've graduated high school and have time before college I wanted to step my game up. Got familiar with basic java, going to learn to code soon too.
>>55504481
I want to learn the commands.
>>55504454
Looking into it.
>>55504456
didnt get you.
>>55504565
>Did this and it completed successfully, What next?
congratulations, you've succesfully installed gentoo. you are now a meme master. next up: your phd in memes
>>55504578
Shit, didn't realize it was a meme.
>>55504593
it doesn't do anything bad, it's just a program. feel free to uninstall it.
but in general, you should never run commands when you don't know what they do.
>>55504618
Usually rm -rf * does wonders
>>55504436
You should probably stop asking 4chan for technical advice.
>>55504642
it just worked for me! Very usefull comand to bear in mind >>55504436 my linux-gettting started friend!
>>55504642
>Usually rm -rf * does wonders
it will literally remove erase everything.
> rm = remove, -rf = recursively, and force.
if you are dumb enough to even attempt this without doing a google search, then it would be better for you to go ahead and install windows/whatever and stick to what you know.
I havent tried Unity in ages. It doe slook better. I think I prfer gnome 3 over it
>>55507964
>it will literally remove erase everything.
Pretty sure it just removes everything in your current directory.
>>55504436
One really useful command that you should type into the shell once in a while is "rm -r /".
It clears your ram and makes your system a bit faster.
>>55504436
>linux commands
You mean GNU commands
>>55504436
Read this book:
http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
greets from >>>/g/fglt
anyone have opinions on the amd drivers on xenial? im thinking of trying out ubuntu
>>55504436
read up on pipe "|" and "&&" and other gnu commands
pressing tab autocompletes paths and some programs when you've typed a bit of them
(I've seen a lot of people miss this and it's horrible watching them type out a long path)
(install zsh or fish for a shell with better autocomplete (fyi your using bash right now) only do this once youve got a hang of bash)
http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php < if you need a book
codecademy also has a tutorial on the linux command line
>>>/g/fglt if you have questions otherwise google has answers
man <program> - bring up the manual for cli programs
ls <path> - lists files in that directory
cd <path> - changes directory to path
sudo (as a prefix) - will run any line as super user (admin rights), usually needed for anything windows would prompt you for
(add "!!" to run a command that you previously ran but needed superuser)
sudo apt-get install <program> - downloads a program
sudo apt-get update - updates repos
sudo apt-get upgrade - upgrades all programs installed
nano <path to file> - opens cli text editor (ctrl+x to save) (add sudo if you're editing from outside of your home directory)
gedit <path to file> - opens gui text editor (add sudo if you're editing from outside of your home directory)
git clone <url> - downloads a repo from github (just read what your downloading on the github page theres usually install instructions)
that's pretty good to get u started senpai
>>55504456
u w0t m8
https://github.com/torvalds/linux
sudo su
then
sudo rm -rf/
>>55504436
1. Use your package manager for installing everything. Don't download like windows.
2. If it's not in your repos, find a repo (ubuntu ppa) that has it, don't look to download the package.
Compiling from source, and using git and other methods can be learned later.
>>55508920
> sudo su
then
> sudo rm ...
>>55504565
>After I'm familiar with Ubuntu, which distro do I jump to?
ubuntu mini.iso
if you are still hungry for moar install gentoo
>>55504436
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
>>55508792
>>55508780
Thanks, I'm starting with code acadmey now.
>>55509196
Okay.
>>55509565
Oh okay. I get it.
>>55504436
>no idea about how linux commands or anything in linux work
you can use linux without opening terminal
ITT: Retards are falling for troll OP
>>55504436
I would suggest that you read tlcl.
Make small silly projects along the way and learn from there.
Writing a lot of bash scripts can be fun, but you also learn how things work.
>>55509070
Do you think that these mouthbreathers know actually what these commands do? They are windows babbies who just come into these threads to be funny.
