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My tip would be to try a few distros before you settle on one. Ubuntu was it for me about seven years ago, but I used mint for a few years and am using MX with xfce now.
Also,
sudo !!
is pretty useful when you forget tosudo
the previous command. It means "super user do the last command I just boneheadedly forgot to do that to"Also can use
!!
and do a space at any place to bring in last command. Not used much as you could just do an up arrow but helps if you edit around a lot and experimenting with a cli tool or command.Also,
!!
is a shortcut for!-1
so if you want the 2nd latest command you could do!-2
and so on.