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

submitted 1 day 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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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I don't really think it's my funeral, since I'm not that invested. It could destroy everything and I'd still have a backup.

You've got the idea.

AI will sabotage you, but so will the average computer and about 5% of the accepted answers on Stack Overflow.

Just...check your backups. It's fine to trust a bunch of stuff to the easiest path, but never trust your backup solution to anything except your own two hands.

And... take some notes. The current era of cloud AI is wildly subsidized by idiot's retirement savings. When today's price goes away, you'll be better off with some notes to re-use, to keep ongoing token costs down.

Oh, and obviously, treat everything on your hosting environment as potentially public to the whole world at any moment.

As long as you and your club are fine with those risks, just enjoy and keep learning!

[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

I will thanks! And the learning part is what I'm happy about most. It's a different way of learning, though. Obviously in not really getting in deep , since I'm not debugging and researching, but I can see that I understand more every time I'm doing it.