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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I finally decided to join my university Linux group, and as I been helping people with simple problems in discord for a while they put me in the helpdesk.

All fine and dandy, but other than dual boot and partitioning problems that I had to deal with myself (stupid laptop which does no follow efibootmgr order) I don't know much about other kinds of troubleshooting.

Is there some reads or free online courses that u guys would recommend.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I used to Google for help, but the thing about Google is you have to know the correct technical terms, but when learning Linux, there are many unknown unknowns. And then you have to trawl through am the answers.

Now, any time I enter a command and get errors, or if I don't understand something in the logs, I'll copy paste it into perplexity.ai - if necessary, it'll ask for clarification. But mostly, it'll suggest various causes and solutions, with explanation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You also could use duckduckgo or some other search engine as google doesn't produce the best results.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Duck Duck Go's answers have been getting worse along with Google's.
I don't want to go back to Google but I don't think I can stay with DDG.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Although it's not free, Kagi has been a dream

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Ive been using startpage lately