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Learning the specific program you're looking to troubleshoot will help a ton.
Searching "how to make a bookmark" might show you how to make a bookmark on your browser of choice, but it might also show you how to make a bookmark on a browser you're not using, or you might even get a tutorial on how to make a real bookmark.
Searching "how to adjust mouse sensitivity in Linux" won't get you very far. It would be best to search for the desktop environment you're using.
PopOS uses the gnome desktop environment. A desktop environment is in charge of most settings you'll want to modify initially. Toolbar, resolution, shortcuts, etc.
Searching for things along those lines, ending the search term with "in gnome" or "in PopOS" will direct you to better results.
Thanks! That does make sense. I consider myself fairly tech savvy-ish, and use several programming languages for work, so this totally makes sense (all day long with the "how to ___ in R/Python/SQL" lol). However, I am sure without this bit of advice I probably would have done exactly that then followed by getting frustrated after the 10th tab I opened didn't give me the right answer yet.
Might sound dumb but it’s also ok to take it slow and just focus on the gui for a bit too. For general desktop usage you really won’t need the cli at all.
When you get to a point where you want the customization/run into something that really does require it try to look at how each command works. It will help quite a bit to know how those work for future errors or customization. Or you can go somewhat nuts like I did and just start doing everything from cli “because it’s totally faster”
As I say, when in doubt, read the Docs. It has saved my ass on numerous occasions to read the docs, then if I don't understand something still, at least I can narrow down where the issue might be for google, or rather, the stackoverflow searcher that also includes results from other places lol