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Where to get tips and advice for someone new to linux (feddit.uk)
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I would class myself as reasonably computer literate but have always used windows (since win95 so that dates me). I'm looking to get used to Linux and have stuck mint onto an old notebook to get used to the system.

We've been up and running for a couple of months now and I've got the basics going but I'm starting to collect questions on how to do this, best ways to achieve that etc, in times past there would probably be a good forum community I could start posting on to learn but I don't know where to go these days.

Where do you take your open questions to, to learn and improve.

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[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago

The other big hurdle is not being able to assess information for accuracy. If you have no prior knowledge, you have no clue whether that blog post with a guide you found is written by someone clueless or a genius.

That's definitely a thing in programming tutorials. When I'm unfamiliar with a library or something it's hard to tell if a tutorial is actually following best practices or if it's "tutorial code", distilled and technically working but missing edge cases or not scalable.