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Where to get tips and advice for someone new to linux (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 week ago by TexNox@feddit.uk to c/linux@programming.dev

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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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[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (15 children)

I understand I'm going to get downvoted and hated for this, but AI.

It's amazing. Basically I started with Linux, set up everything, gamed, set up a server, jellyfin, torrents, nextcloud ( fantastic btw, so so happy with this), all over cloudflare ( didn't even know what that is before), webserver. I host a bunch of stuff now for my climbing club. I moved all my services to some open source stuff that ai helps me install and use.

I have zero time to research this stuff on me own with the family and work, bit I did All this stuff. It's amazing.

Next I'm buying a bunch of sensors and connecting them to the server and I want to have an app that shows what's going on with temperature and humidity and microwave movement sensor,... I have no idea how any of this will work, but I'm confident I will do it which is just bizarre really.

Linux is awesome, ai is awesome too help me do all this stuff.

[–] CodeBlooded@programming.dev 0 points 6 days ago

The downvote ratio here is comical. This is a solid answer, if not the answer, in 2026.

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