Anyone here study linux. I read a books on how linux works.but it’s hard to grasp everything I read
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Just use it it’ll come after a while. If you got any questions, just shoot;
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Linux ist great!
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I know he’s very busy right now with school, but @zwolfgang might be a good guy to talk to. I used to program for Linux buy primarily databasing
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Cool! Linux is awesome but it can be a steep learning curve, at least it was when I started using it, and depending on what you want to do with it. I first started using Linux back in the late 90’s. It’s come a long way in terms of ease of use. Back then it didn’t support all the hardware it does today so you had to buy the right hardware just to get it to work.
There are a lot of differences between Windows and Linux (like the disk drive, c: vs / and the directory names and where stuff is stored for example), but there are some similarities too. Just play around with it and have fun.
I got my CompTIA Linux+ certification back in 2007. I’ve made a little money setting up private cloud servers for clients. On the server side it’s good for business in many cases, but not for desktop use in the office, they just rely on too many programs that are Windows only.
In the past I’ve installed it on friends computers in a dual boot situation so they can try it as a Desktop OS, although most lose interest and don’t feel like learning something new.
I’ve used numerous distributions over the years but I currently use Ubuntu with the Cinnamon desktop.
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I installed Ubuntu on my gaming desktop . Everything works fine. I just don’t know how to create partitions when installing . So I only use ssd. And my hdd is not erased
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As a user with no IT background I found Ubuntu extremely easy to use.
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Is comptia good books for learning linux
I wish I was system admin.
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The only book I bought was “Linux in Nutshell”, otherwise I did a lot of reading online and spent a lot of time asking questions on various Linux forums.
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I can get that book. It’s in humble bundle now.but I think it’s advance stuff. I don’t like asking all the time in forums
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Good luck with the learning. I got to learn a bit of Javascript once. I can see why programming is so addictive. 
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I found forums very helpful, there were always a lot of enthusiasts willing to help.
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What do you ask them?
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Just install it on a system and use it. The experience comes over time. I recommend Linux Mint. So elegant. It makes me rawwwr-r-r-rr-r.
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Im not a huge infrastructure guy lol but thanks @Cragger
I think if you want to get your toes wet but dont wanna dual boot or whatever and are on a windows machine you could def install windows subsystem for linux.
Its CLI only so it trains you to use the terminal quite well to organize things and move around quickly and issue basic commands
And it uses the full linux kernel so it can do whatever the linux kernel is capabe of natively without performance overhead
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Whatever my problem was. For example I had a separate computer I used as a server here at home. I wanted to setup internet connection sharing on my home network at one point so all the computers in my house could connect to my server and access the internet at the same time. I learned on a forum it was called IP masquerading and then people taught my how to setup iptables (firewall) to allow all the computers in my house to connect to my Linux server so they could all then connect to the internet at the same time.
That is just one example. I also had questions about web servers, email servers, lots of stuff, whatever it was I was trying to setup and learn how to do.
That was all back in the late 90’s early 2000s. If you use Google now a days almost every question you can think of has been asked on some forum, just search and usually you can find the answer to your problem. If you can’t find an answer just ask, there are lots of people willing to help.
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linuxquestions.org is of the oldest and friendliest Linux forums around.
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You said you are using Ubuntu so https://ubuntuforums.org may be helpful too.
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I would also stress that you learn how to do everything you want to do using the command line.interface (CLI)
The GUI is fine when you are starting out, but the real power of Linux is with the command line
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