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Good documentation for linux ?
(lemmy.world)
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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).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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Yeah, to me it reads as someone who recently came from windows, where it can be more or less reasonable to "know everything" about how a user might be aloud to configure and use their OS, and doesn't yet understand what it means to have a truly open OS
It would help if they had given more info, even if you want to know "everything" you gotta start somewhere, but even then, linux is very multi facetted, and it's hard to teach someone without knowing what they know now
Are they already using a distro? If not start there, but if so and they're for example using nabora then information on mint wouldn't exactly suit them very well
That is to say, it's a tough situation, I agree that they didn't handle it the best, but I'm not fully certain how it should have been handled instead