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There's value in "easing into" it, namely you won't have to try very hard, but let me play devil's advocate, based on my experience learning to program in in Li

There's value in "easing into" it, namely you won't have to try very hard, but let me play devil's advocate, based on my experience learning to program in in Linux over the past 3-4 years. Don't waste (much) time with the slick GUIs of Ubuntu/Mint/Gnome/KDE. The reason to learn Linux, which you may or may not already realize, is UNIX. That's where the power is. ArchLinux plus a decent window manager is the best way to meet your new friends cat, diff, patch, rsync, wget, curl, git, du, top, free, ssh, man, bash, and of course, the one and only emacs. Gonna be a fun, challenging year for you. Good luck.

WickyNilliams 15y ago
Almost sounds like you're daring me to dive in head first! I expect I'll go with Ubuntu initially if only because I'm kind of familiar with it. That and I won't go into future shock by ditching my shiny GUI's straight away - my fear is if i do this I'll be so overwhelmed it'll just put me off the whole idea. A gradual descent into the darkness is what i desire! I'm definitely down with learning Unix in the long run, but my it's not my primary goal. I want to learn new programming languages in particular, but I'm sure to get where i want with those it'll be impossible to avoid dabbling with Unix, in which case i expect I'll learn it by proxy A year?! I was hoping for around two weeks! I jest, I expect this to be ongoing for years just as your adventures have. I'm also being realistic that between work, my girlfriend and learning guitar i don't expect to be making rapid progress, but I'm content with that :)