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Buy a Raspberry Pi. Get it on your network, and get used to SSH'ing into it. You can learn a lot with a Raspberry Pi and if you break it you can just redo the S
by giancarlostoro 3y ago
Buy a Raspberry Pi. Get it on your network, and get used to SSH'ing into it. You can learn a lot with a Raspberry Pi and if you break it you can just redo the SD card for the OS.
I also recommend finding an old laptop and installing Ubuntu on it, you would be surprised how often doing just this brings new life to an old laptop. I usually get it a new SSD for $50 and it feels like a brand new laptop whenever I do this.
If you really want a VPS then OVH, DigitalOcean or even BuyVM offer cheap options. BuyVM will get you a KVM slice for $24 per year.
- ctxc 3y agoYup, this is what a lot of recommendations say...will test the waters and go the hardware way!
- giancarlostoro 3y agoDepending on what you want to specifically learn, I'd start with the easier distributions, no need to waste hours unable to install or use an OS. Then if you want to "REALLY LEARN" I'd suggest trying out something like Slackware first before jumping straight into the Gentoo or Arch Linux bandwagon. What you'd learn from Slackware is things like partitioning during installation, and how useful package managers can be ;) Also some commands you want to always use: man is #1 cause it will show you documentation on any other command and how to use them almost every program has a -h or --help that tells you how to use them as well.