What are the difficulties you face when you first enter the realm of Linux?

[Chester Chin]

HI Guys,

Lets keep this group lively by sharing some of your past experience when you first get your hands on Linux.

Try and answer some of the question or came up with your own. ^.^

What problem when you face during your first encounter?

What is the most confusing concept between Windows and Linux?

What is the first thing you will teach or share to someone new to Linux?

I will check back once a while and compile a clean documentation and share to public, sort of like a mini ebook or PDF.

[Boon Leong Ong]

What problem when you face during your first encounter?

GUI experience seems very lousy compare to Windows.

Confused about why Ubuntu says this and Fedora says that. It seems like Linux distro is very different and confusing amongst them.

If I don't shut down properly, my next reboot can be just corrupted so suddenly.

What is the most confusing concept between Windows and Linux?

Everybody on Linux-based system tells me Windows is not powerful. But, there is so many commands to remember in Linux compared to so many clicks I can just made. LOL

Ok, I blamed it on Linux where I am confused between Linux as kernel and OpenOffice compared to MS Office looks so primitive. I was thinking on why I need to change to Linux? 

What is the first thing you will teach or share to someone new to Linux?

I assumed that you meant Linux Distro and not Linux kernel. 

Well, to enter into the Linux wonder world (really it is Linux + GNU + other open source project), you need to learn this:

- Linux/GNU commands

- Git

- Autotools...

- Linux kernel concepts

- Building a new Linux kernel

- Building your brand new Linux OS through Yocto Project/Open Embedded.

Once you know these stuffs, your resume looks very attractive....

[Hsien Shiung Hwang]

Problems during the first encounter

I was pushed to use Linux forcibly during an undergraduate course. The Red Hat distro UI was so very different from Windows, I could only navigate based on instructions from lecturer slides. The main irk I had was the different file directory, so very much different from Windows! Then there was this weird terminal thingy, and no task manager!

Most confusing concepts between Windows and Linux

Linux seems to have everything somewhere which requires some certain level of code-fu and Google-sensei praying to get. You feel much more powerful when you get it though. Windows with installers seemed more user friendly first, but failures come no matter what level you're at.

First thing to teach

Pros and Cons between distros and branches. How the file system is arranged, and where to look for resources to get unstuck. Also, what the hell are software packages. There were only drivers and programs in Windows.