I am a fast learner. Should I learn something about Linux before installing it or can I learn while working with it?
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Demalichcha
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Best way in my opinion is to jump right in. But for best results, install it on something other than your primary PC - so if you get stuck and need to look something up online you have another system there to check with.
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You can run both on one computer (not at the same time). Linux is a more DOS type of an OS. They do have a "windows" type of OS.
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avallach is right. You will learn a ton more in a shorter amount of time and actually remember it if you just dive in the deep end. Keep at least one system with an OS your familiar with so you can check online documentation and forums for any problems that you need help with. There is mostly likely an answer to any question you have already posted on a forum somewhere related to that distro. One thing that you could look at is bash. http://www.ss64.com/bashsyntax/index.html You can pick up the basics there, and most of them you will not need to know at all for basic use. Depending on your distrobution, you will never have to touch the terminal (ubuntu, opensuse, fedora core) are a few examples of distro's with excellent less-technically inclined user-friendly GUI's. From there you can learn and graduate on to more complex and more customizable distro's should you feel inclined. foreskin - that was a horrible and completely incorrect analogy. Thank you, Please try again. All major distributions at this present day all have incredible GUI's, Gnome and KDE being the two most popular.
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