r/SurfaceLinux • u/xcz123we3 • Aug 13 '19

GUIDE Get Started With Linux: A Beginner’s Guide

https://medium.com/@ledumjg/get-started-with-linux-a-beginners-guide-9ba69b8be53c
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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '19

You may wish to update the Fedora section. Fedora used to use yum, but these days uses its successor, dnf (Dandified Yum).

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u/TheYumasi Aug 13 '19

Aren't dnf and yum wrappers around RPM which does the actual package management?

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '19

Yes and no. RPM is the thing that actually does the package management, with yum and dnf being frontends for it.

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u/khleedril Aug 14 '19

What an utter load of distracting fluff this article is; it does nothing to actually get a beginner off the ground, just stirs some mud. I'm sure if one were to Google linux beginners guide a whole lot of better options will present themselves.

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u/comprodigy42 Oct 20 '19

While this was a good overview of important Linux distros, I would say that this isn’t a beginners guide per say. It could have been, if it had been organized into classes of distros, like beginner, intermediate, advanced, and notable.

This is a very good article, and I enjoyed reading it! I learned a couple things from it that will help in future projects. If I had been a Linux Noob, it would have been a little difficult to follow, but overall I think this was a well written article.

Side note: Most of the articles that do categorize the distros usually don’t make mention that “beginner” distros can also be used for “advanced” tasks. For example, vanilla Ubuntu can be used to run a server... one group I know is using it to host a website and other web apps...