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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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I think, as a Linux beginner also (~10 months), the best way to learn the terminal is to figure out what tools are useful to you and then read the manual pages or
[application name] --help
(if the application supports that command). Learning how to usegrep
will also be really helpful for troubleshooting, since sifting through logs is such a pain.Like if you want to download a YouTube video, install yt-dlp and then type
man yt-dlp
into your terminal to learn about how that tool works. You can do this for basic utilities too, likecp
,dd
,mv
, etc. and other applications you have installed. You can also useyt-dlp --help
but that won't open in the parser, just the terminal. Learn by doing things that are relevant to you and branch out from there.There are also applications that will let you read the manual pages outside of a terminal, like
xman
, if you find that useful. After a certain point, you'll be able to write commands with switches/arguments without needing to check what they mean first.apropos
is also helpful if you want to do something but don't know what the relevant tools are.