I want to learn Linux, but I'm not sure where to start.

Let me start off by saying that I am not a novice with UNIX/Linux type stuff compared to the average person, or ever the average IT person. I have been working with Windows primarily for around 12 years, and using it as a user since maybe 2004. I have become accustomed to all of the terminology and mannerisms of Windows, and while I can navigate and perform relatively advanced functions on Linux, I really know very little about what is going on behind the scenes and why. I'm taking classes currently to hopefully get the hang of how this works at a level high enough to get Linux+, but I have one big issue.

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I don't understand almost anything about it, because I'm "looking through Windows colored glasses". When I went through this same process with MacOS, I just said "okay, x in MacOS is like y in Windows" and that worked wonderfully. On Linux, not so much. So many of the words and commands that are used are wildly different, and so many of the processes and ways things are done is different. An example: If I want to fuck with booting Windows, services, registry, etc. I use either regedit or msconfig. On Linux, there are a bunch of config files that you need to use a command-line text editor to change (as far as I am aware) and that is a lot different of a process.

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So, long story short is this: I would like you guys to recommend 1 or 2 things

1. What is the best Linux environment (with GUI) for learning the current and future administration side of Linux? I have used Ubuntu, Arch, Zorin, Raspbian, and Pop!\_OS previously.
2. What are some "large scale" tasks that I can work towards that will help me organically learn skills? An example of this would be "install and setup a web server to learn how to use x and configure y"

Let me say as well that I am not looking to learn "basics" like how to install a program and how to update software and things that are easy, but rather more advanced tasks that take multiple steps and help me learn the operating system with professional mindset.

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I apologize if this is out of place, but I figured that if I posted on a more specific subreddit, I would get answers from a targeted group of people that would be biased towards one version or another.

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Krita 4.2.9 released! More stability, more features in Color Smudge brush engine, better brush outline and more!
https://krita.org/en/item/krita-4-2-9-released/

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After few weeks of experiment, it totally replaced my laptop for WFH basically used lol
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Hello, I was looking for a Note taking app/cli For my linux machine(s) with cloud support, do you all have any suggestions ?

I have tried

* Joplin
* NixNote2
* Onenote (web)
* CherryTree

Out of which Joplin is my favourite for being minimal , clean and Markdown heavy but for the life of me I am not able to setup the cloud support always run into one or another problem , so looking for alternatives fellow redditoirs might be using

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Recover data after DD command

The worst has happened 😭

I downloaded a Linux distro's iso and went on to write it on my flash drive. So far so good, but when writing the image to the flash drive I selected by mistake the HD I backup all my files. I then rebooted and found out my mistake, after that I powered off my computer and started crying. Haven't touched anything since.

The HD's filesystem is ext4. (Don't know if it is relevant)

Are there any ways to recover my lost files or at least some of them?

Thank you very much on advance!!

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BASH noscript seems to.. hang? Pushover

Hi,

I have a noscript that monitors a log file and sends a Pushover when a match has found. However, it seems to hang?

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#!/bin/bash
tail -f /var/log/rfc/rfc.log | awk '/admin/ { system("curl -s --max-time 20 -F \"token=TOKEN\" -F \"user=USER\" -F \"noscript=test\" -F \"message=test\" https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json

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shortcut - A CLI tool for viewing shortcuts of applications and websites
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TIL about vipe

`vipe` is a tool to run an editor in a Unix pipelines like `... | vipe | ...`. I wanted to write something like this myself to inspect pipelines like `curl ... | sh` until I realized that this exists. It's contained in the `moreutils` package in Ubuntu and Fedora.

Maybe it's useful for someone else.

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This Week in Matrix 2020-03-27
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/03/27/this-week-in-matrix-2020-03-27

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What is this terminal? how to make this theme?
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What would linux to be the spiritual successor to?

Hey, consider that Linux has evolved throughout the years. I remember that there were a few games to run in Linux, and that has changed since. I have had better success running older windows games on Linux than the current windows. So I want to ask what you guys would consider Linux as the spiritual successor to (Amiga or Atari ST), since both of those went against Ibm-compatiable PC and Mac.

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Imagine trying to pull antivirus marketing style scaremongering on linux users. Simply amazing.
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Hope the new 20.04 releases are will include mmx64.efi and save us Acer users a lot of trouble!

As you all know this particular OEM sucks when it comes to installing Linux on it's laptops.
The BIOS is complete mess.
And I had really bad time trying to put some distributions on my laptop.
They just don't start because that thing is missing.
I hope people involved in the development can see this and do something about it because for newcomers it will be a deal breaker and will leave the wrong impression about Linux.

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Elizabeth Warren’s Campaign Is Making Its Software Open Source
https://www.wired.com/story/elizabeth-warren-campaign-open-source-tech/

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Just another file archive utility

Checkout **xtrv** a file archive utility I created while learning C.

URL: [https://github.com/ttshivhula/xtrv](https://github.com/ttshivhula/xtrv)

If you like it you can give it a star. contributions are welcomed!

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Free Linux Malware Scanner, Detection and Removal Tool
https://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-antivirus-for-linux.aspx

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This month in KDE web: more updated websites, work on a new identity provider and much more!
https://carlschwan.eu/2020/03/28/this-month-in-kde-web-march-2020.html

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Can someone explain this?
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Imprisoning Naughty Dotfiles in a Fake $HOME
https://superluserdo.xyz/blog/posts/2020/03/28/fake-home-prison/

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OpenRGB 0.1 - A new way to control your RGB devices
https://gitlab.com/CalcProgrammer1/OpenRGB/-/releases/release_0.1

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What is the state of webcam driver support on Linux ?

Hi all ! Having time to spare in this self isolating situation, I was trying to read up on webcam drivers and it seems this is mainly provided by the [UVC project](http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/). Looking at the [git repo](https://git.linuxtv.org/pinchartl/uvcvideo.git/) however it doesn't seem to be updated recently (I might be looking at the wrong repo). Does this mean that UVC no longer has any active maintainers ?

How come there have been to updates to the [USB UVC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_video_device_class) specification since 2012 ? Are things moving to a new direction ?

Thanks !

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