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Recently, I've been using linux(tried multiple distros). I'm curious about how linux works, it's architecture! Is there a book, guide, video, etc to learn about linux? By using linux, I get to know something. It would be better If I know how linux works!

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[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly, thats what I said. OP should better focus on learning the basics which is by far faster on arch.

[–] reteo@mastodon.online 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@PropaGandalf

I should also probably mention that messing with the USE flags can make things a little brittle, since it's possible to flag out options that might not be important now, but could become important later. Most binary distributions make things as flexible as possible to accommodate future changes.

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah most of the times I just included them all unless I really didn't need them (some architecture specific stuff or a specific protocol)