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I have been trying Linux for a year now. I know my way around the system, but I still feel like I rely way too much on AI when I don't know what to do

There is a growing fear inside me that I will never truly know how to do stuff without asking AI, and that makes me feel like a fraud

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[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

RTFM (Read the friendly manual). Theres the arch wiki that has pages on most any system component thats probably common across 90% of distributions. Theres project websites, YouTube videos, other wikis like the Debian wiki or Gentoo wiki. Theres peoples blogposts where they talk about cool things they did.

For example:

https://ubuntu.com/desktop/docs/en/latest/tutorial/the-linux-command-line-for-beginners/

Try looking for holistic sources of information basically rather than sifting through aggregators like LLMs or page rankings (which take you to listicles generated by LLMs).

Also post on c/libre if you have any software related questions (which should I use, etc).

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