2) Set a number of tasks that you want to be able to accomplish within the first month. Write them down and track your progress. Be ambitiously sensible. Whether it takes you a month or two, it does not matter. Real knowledge of something gained in two months is preferable to shallow knowledge acquired in one month.
I like this, this is what I do. I go "I want to do this" instead of looking up stuff that may be easy. You want to do something you do it, then you learn on the way. It's like a journey. That's how I learned.
3) Document, document, document. Keep a log of what you do on your computer. It is one of an administrator's most precious tools. Even if you are the single user of your computer, you are still its administrator. Your "admin log" will make troubleshooting easier. It will also make the same task easier next time that you have to do it.
I tried to do this, but I am very bad at it.
6) If at all possible, dedicate a specific computer to run Linux on a permanent basis. If you dual-boot, you are not likely to leave your comfort zone.
Definately. Scrapping windows is the best way to go, if your dependant on it. It's like jumping into the deep end of the pool vs wading at in the shallow end gripping onto the gutter. Sink or swim.
It's nice though to make sure that you have internet access on something somewere aviable for when you get stuck and can't get access.
7) Realize that you are expanding your skills and that you are likely to have some cognitive dependence on whatever OS you used before Linux.Once you break this cognitive dependence, you will be a more knowledgeable hacker, and maybe, even a better human being.
I learned more about Windows in 3 months of using Linux then all the years of using Windows.
8) Realize that all operating systems suck, just some do more than others.
Damn straight. ALL OS's suck.
9) Corollary to eight. Just because you do not know how to do something now, it does not mean that it cannot be done.
13) Realize that all that is worthwhile requires work and sacrifice. There is a price to be paid for not being able to control the bits that pass through your computers. The sooner that you gain control of your computing, the better off you will be.
I can't beleive how many people beleive it's a waste of time to learn about stuff. How many people use cars everyday, their livelyhoods depend on them getting to work and back. But how many of these people can't change their oil or change a flat?
If a person doesn't have time or the resources to understand something, then it's perfectly excusable. But to remain purposely ignorant out of laziness or bad attitude is almost a sin.
19) Move slowly but steadily. It may take you two years to get to where you want to be, but if you do not start now, you'll never get there.
Definately. Plus your brain is like a muscle, it gets stronger the more you use it.
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