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Everytime I try to start something with Linux I fail. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I just want something as a proof of concept that this can be for me. I am aware I am the problem.

But everything is wildly difficult for me. I pulled back from docker after realising it was above my skillset, I just want to try home assisstant with a few lights but fair enough it is beyond me.

I opted to install a game, fail. Learn about wine and bottles. Start a bottle and get told I only have 8gb free in directory, I cannot for the life of me see where it is getting that from.

Please god someone tell me there is a step by step for the fucking imbeciles out there on where to start!?

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

Read into BASH, you may know it as the “Terminal” or “Console” people may also call it the “Shell” it’s essentially the heart of all modern Linux distribution’s and once you wrap your head around the command structure it’s pretty straight forward!

Key commands:

  • cd == Change Directory

  • sudo == Root privileges

  • mkdir == Make directory

  • rm -f == Remove file/directory with force

  • touch == Make a new file

  • nano == Text/File editor

  • cat == Read file contents and print to shell

Commands don’t need to be complicated! For example nano /home/SomeUser/Downloads/SomeRandom.txt will open the text editor to SomeRandom.txt in the /Downloads directory of SomeUser

Each Linux distribution will come with a package manager, Debian based distributions like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Kali Linux have dpkg and APT as their package managers and Arch-based systems have Pacman,Fedora-based systems use DNF.

If you really can’t handle the complexity perhaps trying an immutable distro like Bazzite which is more locked down, less easy to break and geared towards folks like yourself.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    so just to be clear:

    • bash
    • terminal
    • console
    • shell
    • terminal emulator

    These are all the same thing?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    For the most part yes!

    There is a difference between /bin/sh (Bourne Shell) and /bin/bash (Unix Shell), the Bourne shell is still used on more light-weight distro’s like Apache whereas BASH is more feature rich and larger which you use on the more heavier distributions.

    There is Zsh which is an extension of the Bourne Shell.

    Fun fact; Your system may fallback to /bin/sh if it cannot boot properly or is unable to run /bin/bash.

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