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Originally Posted by ApK
Forgetting GUI desktop stuff for the time being (cuz, c'mon, if we're participating on this forum, we can assume we all can handle that) I sometimes have to "use" Linux at work. I connect to shells, run scripts, copy files, check running processes, edit a prescribed app setting file here and there. That's about it. Is THAT knowing Linux? Is that using it? When am I power user? Are we assuming the OP would be satisfied to hack his reader just by following other people's explicit instructions without understanding, just being a keyboard monkey?
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Perhaps that's the disconnect, then. I see no reason to "forget the GUI desktop stuff for now." The GUI desktop is what the noob is going to use to learn the stuff they don't know.
"Just using it" may not teach them
everything they want to learn, but it's certainly no hindrance to becoming an expert either. It still remains the best way to familiarize oneself with an OS. There's no need to take a course or read a book just to get started; and there's no way to begin becoming proficient without just getting started.
And no ... I haven't forgotten a bit of my long road with Linux: from cluelessness to proficiency. Every bit of what I ever learned about it came from a failure to successfully "wing it" the first time.