On 26/07/2019 11:55, Fokke Nauta wrote:
> 
>>
>> The OP would probably be a lot further on if he had a copy of either
>>
>> "Linux in a Nutshell"
>
> € 41, as expensive as the pi itself
>
>> or the
>>
>> "Linux Pocket Guide"
>
> € 14,-
>
> I could purchase this, but I'm about to give up.

Give it a last chance.
I ordered it.

>
> All I wanted is to create a share in my pi, and didn't expect it would
> be so hard. I have some knowledge of Linux left, as I followed a course
> in SCO Unix years ago.
> But this is so bloody difficult, and due to the relation between Windows
> and Linux.
>
> I use the pi as a pi hole in our LAN and that works well. Tried to
> create a share just to see how it works. No luck.
>
>>
>> simply because most people get on better once they realise that Linux
>> essentially reverses the relationship between GUI and command line
>> compared with Windows: in Linux the desktop is really a fancy cover for
>> the command line while in Windows the command line is only there so you
>> can do stuff the GUI developers couldn't be arsed to implement - at least
>> thats how it often seems to me, though I accept that PowerShell may have
>> changed the balance in recent Windowses, but I digress...
>>
>> Either book I mentioned should point him at the 'man' and 'apropos'
>> commands and with that, which are the key to finding useful commands.
>> Similarly, if you're using Raspbian, you should have bookmarks for
>>
>> www.debian.org   - the mother lode for Debian Linux, which contains
>>
>> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ - the Debian
>> reference manual
>>
>> http://wiki.debian.org/ - the Debian wiki
>>
>>
>

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