Best intro to Linux?

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So I have my VM set up and I'm going to install a Linux image today.

I am a total beginner and I want to gain employable skills in a Linux/Unix environment.

I hear Fedora is a good place to start as it is an introduction to Red Hat.

I am not time limited nor do I have any great urges to conquer the world nor save humanity from mediocrity etc.

I just want a good place to start in the world of Linux so I can play about at my leisure and maybe learn something that could be useful to someone else down the line too.

Thanks
 
Thanks,

could you enlarge on that a bit please?

I should also add that I'm considering moving away from Windows totally and having a permanent Linux OS for my regular home set up too.

Can't say I like what I hear about the new and improved Windows 10.

From what I can gather Mint is a good distro for that.
 
I had Ubuntu for a year and very rarely used it, I now have Fedora 22 on a VM but I've not had the time yet to fully dive in and investigate that.

I am considering getting this book,

http://www.amazon.co.uk/CompTIA-Cer...1687/ref=aag_m_pw_dp?ie=UTF8&m=A1JXFCACBWZLJY

It looks as though there is some kind of sim or virtual machine included that would allow me to learn some CLI syntax plus there could be a cert at the end of it too.

There are a few free online courses for those certs too, Cybrary that I've found so far.

https://www.cybrary.it/video/instructor-course-introduction/

http://www.linux.org/forums/beginner-tutorials.53/
 
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I have Fedora 22 installed for about a week now and thoroughly enjoying it so far,second install in fact as I didn't set it up correctly the first time.

Yesterday I installed cinnamon,the install completed in the cli and asked for a log out and log in or a re-boot to complete the install but as it was late I just turned the machine off and went to bed,thought that when I booted the pc today the option to boot into cinammon would be there but all I have is another option in the grub menu for a fedora 22 but with debug.

I go to the cli and try and install cinnamon again and it tells me cinnamon is already installed,I go to the cli and try and remove cinnamon and it tells me there is no cinnamon installed, both in the same minute.

I am bamboozled,perplexed and otherwise de-linuxified by this and would appreciate any insights that I can gather as I'm not having any luck googling the issue.

Thanks
 
Hi,

yes,I had fedora 22 installed from an ISO with Gnome 3 as default and updated to the cinnamon desktop.

I was looking for an option to boot into cinnamon from the grub menu for some reason but I found that really quite tiny cog wheel on the log in screen and selected cinnamon from there and I've just finished tweaking that to my hearts content.

Well,almost,I can't see how to change the default colour of the taskbar itself yet but that will drop over the next few days I expect.

Thanks for your post Rainmaker that would have nailed it for me very well and if you don't mind I have another little poser for you...

When this pc boots into windows 7 or 10 I can transfer files across my home network at quite magnificent speeds,up to 137MB/s I've seen but using samba to connect from the linux install to a windows 7 machine and I'm lucky to see anything over 20Mb/s.

Is there a specific place I should look to help resolve that issue or is it a standard loss as the data moves between all the different protocols etc that it has to traverse?

Thanks again.
 
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