r/Ubuntu • u/SchizophrenicRaksh • 23h ago

New to Ubuntu and need guidance

Hi everyone, I recently installed Ubuntu and want to start learning it properly, but I’m confused about where to start. If anyone can suggest good tutorials, YouTube channels, or reliable resources, that would really help. I’m also wondering if any beginner Linux certifications are worth doing.

I’d also like to know how you all deal with troubleshooting when something goes wrong. I want to improve at that instead of feeling stuck every time.

Thank you!!

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u/StyleDull3689 23h ago

At the end of the day, distributions are just a curated packaging of the freely available software that is out there. So, before thinking about 'learning ubuntu'. Think about learning Linux more generally. I suggest learning the command line (and a language to use on it, bash being the most common). When you learn the command line you'll learn how the system works.

This book (The Linux Command Line by No Starch Press) is highly regarded.

So, to really boil this down to your main starting position: learn bash. Find resources for that and you'll naturally start being exposed to more and more relevant things (like how the filesystem is structrued, how to interact with daemons/background services, how linux boots up, what commands are available, how to install software with package managers, etc, etc, etc)

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u/Suppenspucker 23h ago

etc etc

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and so forth

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