I am a Linux beginner/amateur and I have sort of had enough of copy and pasting commands I find on the internet without having a good understanding of how they actually work.

I guess my end goal is to be able to comfortably install and use arch Linux with my own customization’s and be able to fix it when things go wrong.

What tips/ideas do you have for getting better at navigating the terminal, and getting a better understanding of how the os works. What is a good roadmap to follow? And how did you, advanced Linux user, get to the stage your at now?

Edit: my current distro is bazzite just in case you were interested and thanks for all the replies you are all really helpful.

  • BillibusMaximus
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    4 days ago

    I have sort of had enough of copy and pasting commands I find on the internet without having a good understanding of how they actually work.

    One thing you could do is start trying to understand those commands.

    Read the man pages or the documentation to figure out what the commands are actually doing. Once you have the “what” , you can dig deeper to get to the “why” if it isn’t obvious by that point.

    After enough of that, you’ll go to copy/paste and already understand what it’s doing without needing to look it up again.

    Then from there, it’s a matter of building the instinct to be able to say “I need to do X, so I’ll use commands Y and Z.”