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I am a Linux beginner/amateur and I have sort of had enough of copy and pasting commands I find on the internet without having a good understanding of how they actually work.

I guess my end goal is to be able to comfortably install and use arch Linux with my own customization's and be able to fix it when things go wrong.

What tips/ideas do you have for getting better at navigating the terminal, and getting a better understanding of how the os works. What is a good roadmap to follow? And how did you, advanced Linux user, get to the stage your at now?

Edit: my current distro is bazzite just in case you were interested and thanks for all the replies you are all really helpful.

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[–] rtxn 28 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Command line cheat sheet (with bonus vim controls):

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's kind of awesome, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

And stop copy/pasting them. Type them out so you get used to them. It gets quicker the more you do it.

[–] BlindFrog 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

rm -rf /
make computer faster

(͠≖ ͜ʖ͠≖)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wait I did this to my main drive everything went black is this suposed to happen? will it start working again?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

in case you aren't joking, rm -rf / (albiet with a warning now) will delete allll the files on your system, so everything going black is the expected result.

rm is remove, the - is to indicate that you want to pass arguments, and r&f are recursive (delete stuff in the folders in this folder) and force (don't ask for confirmation). The slash afterwards designates the root folder, the folder with everything in it.

So "rm -rf /" means "remove, recursively and forcefully, everything in the / directory"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

@Blisterexe @pineapple , after making a snapshot of VM. Sometimes, I do it just for fun and then roll back to the snapshot. Fun times.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

it is a fun command to see happen, i agree