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Learn what you want to learn, and be honest about it. It doesn't sound like you're looking to learn Linux because you want to but feel like you ought to. Well that's not going to inspire you at all! Park that for later, Linux will wait for you. One thing I will say as someone who habitually has broken install after install learning OS's, Applications, toolchains and the rest of it, keep the important stuff away from the OS, even if it's only backups.
What I mean about that is assume today is the day that you realise that you have to wipe the disks and install your OS from fresh, so that being the case make sure you can get back to work quickly and without massive pain. If you do that you'll find that your a hell of a lot more comfortable with 'hmn, haven't seen that big red button before, what does that do?' and subsequently nuke the whole OS. That's not a bad thing, that's investigation, analysis and good old fashioned curiosity. Final thought.... You'd be suprised at what your machine can do. Ok, so right now VM's are off the table, but I'd wager that future you will have a different perspective. I'm not saying 'guh, go do VM, you must learny the machines that is virtual', I'm saying learn at your own pace, go git gud just by doing and see how it all looks afterwards. ..also, break shit, but break shit in an environment where you can laugh about it, not cry. |