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Wanting to improve my Linux skills after 17 months of daily driving Linux

I’ve been daily driving Linux for 17 months now (currently on Linux Mint). I have got very comfortable with basic commands and many just works distros (such as Linux Mint, or Pop!_OS) with apt as the package manager. I’ve tried Debian as a distro to try to challenge myself, but have always ran into issues. On my PC, I could...

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Not a joke:

Write your own device driver.

Preferably for some kind of esoteric hardware that you own but no-one else has, but it’d also be a valuable experience to do it for some commonly used piece of hardware for which good Linux drivers already exist.

For any moderately talented programmer this should be a reasonably difficult exercise, which will teach you very valuable lessons about Linux (and be quite fun at the same time).

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For the usecase you describe, I’d go with a Chromebook, and build ChromeOS from source myself if that aspect felt important.

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Even though the Scarface remake with Al Pacino is an excellent movie, I personally find the rawness of the black-&-white original with Paul Muni more intriguing.

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When you’re not telling us which package you’re trying to install in which packaging system, the only meaningful answer is: you’re trying to install the wrong package.

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Really, an Arch user who didn’t mention that they’re using Arch, there’s certainly a meme hiding here somewhere!

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