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Second linux4all, as well as the superuser comment.
I dove into Linux full-time this past September after spending several years dabbling and basically waiting for me to get the right hardware to play nice with the OS without having to resort to trying to edit X.org from the terminal screen you get if X fails to load (this happened primarily with my crappy old Inspiron 1100 that I had that required proprietary, Windows-only drivers just to get 1024x768 resolution, but I also never had any luck getting ATI drivers to fully work, which was a deal-breaker for me as I wanted my 3D acceleration).
I went from Windows superuser/admin (10ish years of tech support) to somewhere between basic and mid-level Linux user in under an hour. :D For a while, I was (and to a slightly lesser extent, still am) stuck in that weird limbo, where I have needs beyond the basic user, but don't have quite enough knowledge to solve a given problem without spending fifteen minutes searching Google or playing trial and error (or both).
The different communities around the major distros provide a ton of help (especially if you know how to convert Red Hat commands to Debian ones) and there's tutorials for damn near everything, which is nice. The command line stuff can be a little daunting at first, but if you're not afraid to read the snorefest that is documentation, and pick up on the common commands, it's not too bad.
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Date: 4 March 2010 18:08 (UTC)I dove into Linux full-time this past September after spending several years dabbling and basically waiting for me to get the right hardware to play nice with the OS without having to resort to trying to edit X.org from the terminal screen you get if X fails to load (this happened primarily with my crappy old Inspiron 1100 that I had that required proprietary, Windows-only drivers just to get 1024x768 resolution, but I also never had any luck getting ATI drivers to fully work, which was a deal-breaker for me as I wanted my 3D acceleration).
I went from Windows superuser/admin (10ish years of tech support) to somewhere between basic and mid-level Linux user in under an hour. :D For a while, I was (and to a slightly lesser extent, still am) stuck in that weird limbo, where I have needs beyond the basic user, but don't have quite enough knowledge to solve a given problem without spending fifteen minutes searching Google or playing trial and error (or both).
The different communities around the major distros provide a ton of help (especially if you know how to convert Red Hat commands to Debian ones) and there's tutorials for damn near everything, which is nice. The command line stuff can be a little daunting at first, but if you're not afraid to read the snorefest that is documentation, and pick up on the common commands, it's not too bad.