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Yeah I need a basic basic start, hello linux world type shit. Except more basic than that.
Read into BASH, you may know it as the “Terminal” or “Console” people may also call it the “Shell” it’s essentially the heart of all modern Linux distribution’s and once you wrap your head around the command structure it’s pretty straight forward!
cd== Change Directorysudo== Root privilegesmkdir== Make directoryrm -f== Remove file/directory with forcetouch== Make a new filenano== Text/File editorcat== Read file contents and print to shellCommands don’t need to be complicated! For example
nano /home/SomeUser/Downloads/SomeRandom.txtwill open the text editor to SomeRandom.txt in the/Downloadsdirectory of SomeUserEach Linux distribution will come with a package manager, Debian based distributions like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Kali Linux have dpkg and APT as their package managers and Arch-based systems have Pacman,Fedora-based systems use DNF.
If you really can’t handle the complexity perhaps trying an immutable distro like Bazzite which is more locked down, less easy to break and geared towards folks like yourself.
so just to be clear:
These are all the same thing?
For the most part yes!
There is a difference between
/bin/sh(Bourne Shell) and/bin/bash(Unix Shell), the Bourne shell is still used on more light-weight distro’s like Apache whereas BASH is more feature rich and larger which you use on the more heavier distributions.There is Zsh which is an extension of the Bourne Shell.
Fun fact; Your system may fallback to
/bin/shif it cannot boot properly or is unable to run/bin/bash.Try opening a terminal an typing
echo 'Hello World!'My two cents: You can forget about Linux for a while. Using a terminal is more important. Here's a classic guide: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuideLinux Journey will take you through the basics.
Thank you for this.
Have you tried using emulators? They're a great start and can show you how to easily get some usage out of your computer.
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