Which version is best to use for a first time Linux User?

I am a college student and currently going to school for Cybersecurity. So far, I have been exposed to CentOS and Ubuntu. My question is what is the best platform for a student who is new to Linux? I'm tending to get lost between all the variations. Your feedback would be very valuable to me! Much thanks

 

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Going on, I plan just refer to this thread for questions about new to GNU/Linux.

Asking what is best is not properly answerable if it is not specified what criteria is used for assessing bestness. I can not know which attributes are valued most. It could be price, ease of installation, documentation available, suitability for intrusion testing, etc.

Choose one GNU/Linux distribution and stick to that. I have known distro shoppers, and advicing them is frustrating. I help the distro shopper set up the system, and next time we meet he has another Linux distribution with a different set of problems.

 

Thank you Taleman! You responded to me and several of my classmates! we look forward to learning more about Linux & Ubuntu

 

It just occurred to me the new users to this forum may not know how to search for existing answers.
To find related threads on this forum, use Internet Search Engines with

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site:howtoforge.com new linux user

 

Wondering which command to use? Try

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apropos keyword

replacing keyword with a suitable search term.

 

If you want ls to show only subdirectories of current working directory, try this:

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$ ls -ldh */.

 

Could you tell the instructror of your course to create a forum for his/her students to practice using forums on? I feel it is not proper to use a forum that tens of thousands of people use just so course participants can practice posting on forums. If lots of courses start doing the same this forum becomes unusable.

 

Q: relationship between MS-DOS and Linux
Using Internet Search Engines with

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msdos unix

finds among others this as first entry after advertisements: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-key-differences-between-Unix-and-MS-DOS?share=1
Search Engines with

Code:

linux msdos similar commands

find this cheetsheet:
http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/doc/redhat/redhat6.2/gsg-62/ch-doslinux.html
Linux commands originated in Unix a long time ago. Developers had teletype https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter terminals, and there it was an advantage if commands where short, there was less to type.

 

See top of this page on navigation bar, "Linux Commands".
Another way is using command

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ls /usr/bin

That "Linux Commands" list has description of each command.
Another way is using command man with command name as parameter. For example

Code:

man apropos

 

Using Internet Search Engines with

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good tutorials or guides for vim

finds several.
Also, fix the punctutation keys on your keyboard.

 

Not all commands, there are hundreds of commands.
Memorize these first: man, apropos, cd, ls, less, mv, rm, mkdir, editor, rmdir, chown, chmod, kill, ps, tail, grep, locate, find.
I tried to list them in order of usefullness or frequency of use.
On how to find info on those commands, read this thread from the beginning.

 

@doxdoxbox wrote:

Use the file system the installer offers by default. When you have learned the differences between the file systems and know requirements you place for a file system you can choose a suitable file system.
If you want info about file systems, Internet Search Engines are your friend. Wikipedia is ofter useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system

Impossible to say not knowing what criteria you use for evaluating bestness. For what purpose would this file system be used, for example?

You are pretty much stuck. Some file systems can be changed in place to something else, but this is the exception. If it really is necessary to get another file system, what works is backup all the files, create on that disk partition the new desired file system (this destroys old contents of partition) and then restore the files from backup to the new file system.

 

https://www.howtoforge.com/communit...or-a-first-time-linux-user.83782/#post-399369
Using Internet Search Engines with search word AWK finds among other pages this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK

 

if you need to know

type the question in Internet Search Engines.

 

Wondering how Linux uses memory? Read this: https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

 

Linux Security:
https://linuxsecurity.com/features/how-secure-is-linux
https://www.linux.com/news/five-things-know-about-linux-security/
Find more using Internet Search Engines with for example

Code:

linux security hurdles

 

I run man apropos in my terminal then see the jpg bro..

 

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Since the helpful person reading your guestion has limited knowledge of the problem, knowing only the information that is included in the question, it does help if question is readable and informative. Guide on how to ask a good question:

• https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask

Good guides exist in the Internet, search engines can find more of them.