Congrats! There's a bunch of us around to help :) The distro you chose should be fairly painless.

Fuck you.

Some helpful (generally) distro-agnostic terminal commands (CTRL+SHIFT+T to bring up terminal in many linux distros)

ps aux -- shorthand for viewing running processes netstat -tnulp -- show processes listening on ports sudo su - -- drop into elevated terminal (root shell) chmod +x <path-to-file> -- make file executable (eg. you an run via ./<path-to-file>) chown <user>:<group> -R directory/path/ -- set recursively set ownership of directory and all sub-files and dirs to user/group find . -name "some-name.txt" -- search for files/dirs with given name (supports wildcarding, eg. find-me.*) grep -rnwi . -e "<regex-pattern>" -- recursively search all files and sub-folders for files which contain the following string within file contents ln -s <from-path> <to-path> -- create symbolic link

Good hunting.

something that made my first week easier.. like 20 years ago: if you can't get that file to run that you downloaded (like netbeans install or whatever): chmod +x fileName ./fileName

also, if you're on ubuntu, and you need to install something and you know the name: sudo su apt-get update apt-cache search programName apt-get install programName ctrl+d

good luck, and fuck you too.

No mean feat. Welcome aboard!

Find a command by description: apropos

$apropos permission Will list all commands with permission in the description

Read a manual page: man $man chmod

Will display the manual for chmod command.

Use apropos to find the name of the thing, use man to read about the thing.

Don't type the $, that is your command prompt you should see. If you see # you are logged in as root, don't do everything as root, only when you need it.

Now you're officially a hacker.

Congrats!

It's good stuff. You should be pleased with it.

My house has been linux-only for nearly 20 years, and never had any real issues.

Locate menu Find firefox or whatever Type in poal.co

Seems it is working as usual for you - have fun poking around.

Also, any "user friendly" system should let you screw around with most things so that the terminal is effectively unneeded.

The key to solving any problem in Linux is, if you can't figure it out, post on a Linux board that you're frustrated with your problem so you're going back to windoze now. It's like a girl posting on some anime image board that she's going to kill herself.