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How to start as a not very tech savy person
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One thing to keep in mind about the terminal:
In Linux, many GUI tools are simply pretty interfaces for the terminal. That's why folks tell you that you'll need the terminal occasionally, no matter what: you might need to type in commands that don't already have a friendly GUI.
The terminal isn't that scary, though! Every big distro has a support community. And if you need to do something in the terminal? Someone else has definitely needed to do the same thing, so you won't need to figure it out on your own.
I mostly use Bazzite in front of a big TV. When I first set up the computer, I needed to use the terminal to configure a couple of things related to network shares. Later, I used it to help specific devices wake up the computer from sleep. It's been months since then, and I'm not sure I've needed the terminal for anything else.
Use it as an opportunity to learn how your computer works. It's really satisfying to understand how things happen.