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Linux enthusiasts shared some of their biggest mistakes.

Lifelong learning is wise-it can make your mind sharp and make you more competitive in the job market. But some skills are more difficult to learn than others, especially those rookie mistakes, which can take a lot of time and bother you when you try to fix them.

Take learning Linux as an example. If you are accustomed to working in a Windows or MacOS graphical interface, moving to Linux may have a big learning curve to enter unfamiliar commands into the terminal. But the reward is worth it, because millions of people have proved it.

In other words, this learning trip is not plain sailing. We asked some Linux enthusiasts to think back to when they first started using Linux and told us the biggest mistake they made.

"Don't enter [any type of command line interface (CLI) to work] and expect the command to work in a reasonable or consistent way, as this may cause you to feel frustrated. This is not because the design choice is inappropriate-although it is like tapping on your head when you tap on the keyboard-but reflects the fact that these systems have been added over several generations of software and operating systems. Let nature take its course, write down or remember the commands you need, and (try not to) feel frustrated when things are not what you expect. " -- Gina Likins

"to copy and paste commands as easily as possible to make things go smoothly, read the commands first to get at least a general idea of what you are going to do, especially if you have pipe commands, especially if you have multiple pipes. There are a lot of destructive commands that seem harmless-until you realize what they can do (such as rm, dd), and you don't want to accidentally break anything (don't ask me how I know). " -- Katie McLaughlin

"early in my journey to Linux, I didn't know the importance of where I was in the file system. I'm deleting some files that I think are my home directory. I typed sudo rm-rf * and then deleted all the startup files on my system. Now, I often use pwd to make sure I confirm where I am before issuing such a command. Fortunately, I was able to use the USB drive to boot the broken laptop and recover my files. " -- Don Watkins

"Don't reset the permissions of the entire file system to 777 just because you think 'permissions are hard to understand' and you want the application to access something." -- Matthew Helmke

"I removed a package from my system and I didn't check the other packages it depended on. I just asked it to delete what it wanted to delete, which eventually caused some of my important programs to crash and become unavailable." -- Kedar Vijay Kulkarni

What mistakes have you made when learning to use Linux? Please share it in the comments.

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