I’m a Windows user of all life. But I love Linux. And these last two years after so many time I started learning it in deep . But one thing is bugging me is that I am those persons that has bad times remembering names, words… imagine commands… Even after using it so much I remember some basics but I’m struggling a lot and I have to go back to notes constantly to do some basic operations. Even worst after trying multiple distro from from different upstreams that commands are … Different. What would be your recommendations to help me. Are there tools to help this issue ? My guess is that A LOT of people happens the same. And it’s one of the reasons Linux has such a slow adption . Because is excellent and full of capabilities.
First of all, we are ALL in the same boat. Newcomers from whatever OS to professionals alike, we all struggle to remember commands and their idiosyncratic syntax.
Now that this is out of the way, namely that you are not “special” in having difficulties there, a little challenge. How do YOU normally do when you are learning something new? Typically when people do that, e.g. at school or while doing a professional training, they take notes. Are you doing that? I know it might sound “strange” but learning Linux is… well fundamentally learning so yes you can use whatever tools and techniques for that too. So… here are MY notes https://fabien.benetou.fr/Tools/Shell which will probably be rather pointless to you but at least prove that I’m not suggesting something I didn’t try first.
TL;DR: yes, use all the tools & tricks recommended here (IMHO with reverse-i-search first) but don’t forget to actually take notes!
Thank you! i will check them. Yep im a long time user of Obsidian and i have notes everywhere. But going to them , when i dont have much free time to spend, it also feels like a tool would be amazing to simplify the get into complex command.
It’s a balance, namely you are probably wasting time if you jolt down literally everything… but also what you don’t write down and forget, have no way to backtrack, will also waste time.
IMHO it’s the process itself that matters, namely that by taking the time to write down, organize, lookup, you gradually have to do it less and less because you are more conscious about what you know, what you don’t, and adapt accordingly.
If you do find a better way, based on a tool or not, please do share back!