askchapo

I've been a full time Linux user for about 5 years now, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to keep detailed notes. When you figure out how to do something that's been stumping you, write that shit down. Write it in a way so that when you come back to it 9 months, 3 years, or 2 decades later, you'll be able to reproduce what you did originally. You want the notes to make sense, and don't assume you'll remember the shorthand of what you did, because you won't.

I was very resistant to taking notes for like the first 2 years, but everything got so much simpler and easier to manage once I finally did. It got even easier once I figure out how to correctly take notes with detail in a way that worked for me.