Learning Linux, next steps? - eviltoast

Good day all,

I’m currently about 3 months into using Linux exclusively for personal computing and gaming. I stared out trying EndeavourOs /w the Linux Surface kernel on my Surface, having now settled on Manjaro on my surface and CachyOS on my gaming rig.

So far the experience has been relatively painless. Now, having settled down comfortably into a rhythm of running sudo pacman -Syu, getting lost in the AUR and wiki, I feel like exploring more into what Linux has to offer.

So, on to my question, what do i do now? There’s a bit of choice paralysis for me. Where did you all decide to dig in first? What resources did you use? What projects did you take on to deepen your knowledge? What do you feel is essential for crossing the threshold from average user to almost-superuser, then from there and beyond?

Thanks in advance for your time. Hope to hear from you all soon.

  • ScientifficDoggo@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Not trying to change anything for the sake of change. The intent of my question was to try and get insight from people more experienced/knowledgeable than me on how to deepen my knowledge. So far distro-hopping and initial troubleshooting has been fun… and time consuming.

    Currently I’m in surface deep, looking to expand my horizons, and turning to the community for their two cents.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipMEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Build a stable system on a well beaten path and then get a homelab type setup. It can be either virtual or partially real hardware

      • ScientifficDoggo@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Thanks for mentioning homelab. They seem quite useful from a quick search. If you remember your first setup, what hardware did you settle on and why? What has changed since? Any pains along the way?

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipMEnglish
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          2 months ago

          That’s a huge rabbit hole that will steal thousands of hours of your time.

          If your computer has more than 4 cores and at least 16gb of ram you can run virtual machines in virtual manager. If you are lacking on specs or you want to separate out everything you can pickup a used small form factor or medium form factor for relatively cheap. I would go for Proxmox early as it will scale to many machines and will allow easy hardware swaps as you can just transfer the VMs over. Proxmox can also do live transfers between hosts so you don’t need to worry about having to shut down services to move things around.

          Honestly I didn’t really get into home labing and self hosting until much later. I have been using Linux for a significant amount of time and I can’t really recall much about how I actually got started. It sort of just happened.