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The wiki is here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community https://help.ubuntu.com/community Personally, I use Google and pick the link that goes to the community wi
by etal 18y ago
The wiki is here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community https://help.ubuntu.com/community
Personally, I use Google and pick the link that goes to the community wiki, and avoid the forums. Most new users' Ubuntu nightmare situations seem to get started by reading a "this worked for me" sequence of commands on the forums, trying it, causing another chain-reaction of problems, spiralling to a hell of command-line operations and manual software installations that make no sense for the situation, forcing the user to finally reinstall Linux (perhaps another distro) and post angry messages online.
A related problem is that the habits used for casual troubleshooting on Windows -- clicking through menus and dialogs and changing things until the system fixes itself, downloading fixes from a website and installing them -- are generally disastrous on Linux. I suspect this is where most of the land mines on the forums come from.
Searching the wiki documentation is much better than the other two approaches for avoiding these problems.