New to Linux, a lot to take in

[Roxas]

Hi everybody!

I'm Roxas and i'm new here on the LinuxMint forums.
I have a lot of ideas floating around in my head of things to do in Linux and want to eventually establish my own home network (baby steps) and I have absolutely no idea where to start.

I'm not too much past square one as far as linux background goes. I've done a lot of tutorials in college with fedora 13 and just recently put LinuxMint 17.1 Cinnamon on a secondary tower at home to re-familiarize myself with Linux. My main PC currently runs Windows 7 and while it works for what I need, I want to gain certain skills and I want to beef up my resume while I am still young and at the beginning of my IT career.

ANY HELP OR TIPS WOULD BE MET WITH JOYFUL APPRECIATION

Thanks for taking the time to read my introduction and I hope to get to know the community here.

~Roxas

[austin.texas]

Welcome to Mint and to the forum !

Help wiki - https://help.ubuntu.com/community
Linux Mint Beginners Search Engine - http://home.windstream.net/joelwest/
Rescatux CD: A tool everyone should have (includes SuperGrub2 and gparted) - http://www.supergrubdisk.org/

"the 5 minute samba howto for a home network" - http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 41#p838674

Korora with the Cinnamon desktop is a very nice distro for someone with a background in Fedora.

[jimallyn]

Welcome aboard, Roxas!

[The-Wizard]

Welcome to the Mint family forums

wizard

[Crewp]

Welcome to Linux Mint, and the Mint forum.

[all41]

Hi Roxas. Welcome to the forums.
You are on the right track--Mint is excellent for home networking.

[Roxas]

Welcome to Mint and to the forum !

Help wiki - https://help.ubuntu.com/community
Linux Mint Beginners Search Engine - http://home.windstream.net/joelwest/
Rescatux CD: A tool everyone should have (includes SuperGrub2 and gparted) - http://www.supergrubdisk.org/

"the 5 minute samba howto for a home network" - http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 41#p838674

Korora with the Cinnamon desktop is a very nice distro for someone with a background in Fedora.

Thanks for all of the resources! i'll definitely pick through then and see what I can learn.

Is there any other way aside from the tried and true "repetition" way of learning when it is appropriate to use certain commands?
Also when is it appropriate to be logged in as root in terminal? I've heard "Never unless you absolutely need to" and "Doesn't matter as long as you know what you are changing"

Again, Thanks for the help!

~Roxas

[austin.texas]

Is there any other way aside from the tried and true "repetition" way of learning when it is appropriate to use certain commands?

Here is a good resource for learning commands - http://manpages.ubuntu.com/

Also when is it appropriate to be logged in as root in terminal? I've heard "Never unless you absolutely need to" and "Doesn't matter as long as you know what you are changing"

"Never unless you absolutely need to" is the correct answer. You will find that the sudo or gksudo commands will accomplish just about everything you need to do.

[Roxas]

Is there any other way aside from the tried and true "repetition" way of learning when it is appropriate to use certain commands?

Here is a good resource for learning commands - http://manpages.ubuntu.com/

Also when is it appropriate to be logged in as root in terminal? I've heard "Never unless you absolutely need to" and "Doesn't matter as long as you know what you are changing"

"Never unless you absolutely need to" is the correct answer. You will find that the sudo or gksudo commands will accomplish just about everything you need to do.

More amazing resources!
Are those ubuntu commands mostly applicable to mint as well? I heard there was a few small differences in syntax.
And sudo it is then. what is the difference between sudo and gksudo?

[Habitual]

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/

[austin.texas]

Are those ubuntu commands mostly applicable to mint as well? I heard there was a few small differences in syntax.

Mint is based on Ubuntu, so they operate the same in that regard.

And sudo it is then. what is the difference between sudo and gksudo?

gksudo is a specialized form of sudo that you should use when opening a graphical program as root. For example, when you want to edit the text file, /etc/fstab, (owned by root), the command to open the graphical text editor would be gksudo gedit /etc/fstab If you are using KDE the command would be kdesudo instead of gksudo.

[Roxas]

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/

Love it! Thank you!

[Roxas]

Are those ubuntu commands mostly applicable to mint as well? I heard there was a few small differences in syntax.

Mint is based on Ubuntu, so they operate the same in that regard.

And sudo it is then. what is the difference between sudo and gksudo?

gksudo is a specialized form of sudo that you should use when opening a graphical program as root. For example, when you want to edit the text file, /etc/fstab, (owned by root), the command to open the graphical text editor would be gksudo gedit /etc/fstab If you are using KDE the command would be kdesudo instead of gksudo.

Thanks for your quick responses. i appreciate the help!

[vrkalak]

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