Before you were good at CLI
by disk_bearing from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6HXVX)
For those of you helping all the newbies, what was it like before you got comfortable? What resources or environment or conditions were crucial for getting to the next level?
THANK YOU!
Decades ago I thought I was SO COOL for burning and installing Ubuntu live CDs. But needing the Command Line Interface for anything was like a wall. I had no skill or focus.
Today I have the right computer and blacked out my keyboard. I am half way through The Linux Command Line and chat GPT has been hugely helpful. Progress feels good. Still,
- most of my habits are not best practice
- still mashing arrow keys in vim and bash
- can't grep or find yet; still using the gui a lot
- man pages feel unreadable to me
- building short scripts with chat gpt and no real automation; most of the stuff I try without it fails.
- weak git understanding. Can't connect to github.
- not sure how to mesh with the linux community or normies for that matter. I don't like social apps.
- Wish I had focused on this back in high school.
My goal for a very long time has been to self-host some web services, and make a crude chat bot that draws from ALL of my files and can sort-of survive on its own. I'm starting closer to first principles so I / it can control the stack. A year ago I thought I was five years away. Now, maybe more like 50 years away. My career and most of my time is not with computers.
Again, thank you so much!!
THANK YOU!
Decades ago I thought I was SO COOL for burning and installing Ubuntu live CDs. But needing the Command Line Interface for anything was like a wall. I had no skill or focus.
Today I have the right computer and blacked out my keyboard. I am half way through The Linux Command Line and chat GPT has been hugely helpful. Progress feels good. Still,
- most of my habits are not best practice
- still mashing arrow keys in vim and bash
- can't grep or find yet; still using the gui a lot
- man pages feel unreadable to me
- building short scripts with chat gpt and no real automation; most of the stuff I try without it fails.
- weak git understanding. Can't connect to github.
- not sure how to mesh with the linux community or normies for that matter. I don't like social apps.
- Wish I had focused on this back in high school.
My goal for a very long time has been to self-host some web services, and make a crude chat bot that draws from ALL of my files and can sort-of survive on its own. I'm starting closer to first principles so I / it can control the stack. A year ago I thought I was five years away. Now, maybe more like 50 years away. My career and most of my time is not with computers.
Again, thank you so much!!