I learned most of my Linux skills by starting with Gentoo in the early 2000s after only using Unix and redhat since about '96.
If someone really truly wants to learn Linux (sysadmin types) I tell them to start with Gentoo, not Mint. You don’t learn anything when everything has been dumbed down or obfuscated from you.
I couldn’t have asked for a better distro to learn on, and I’ve been thinking about going back.
Perhaps in the past it was more educational, but nowadays you start with stage3 and everything is so streamlined, that I didn’t learn all that much from installing it.
I learned most of my Linux skills by starting with Gentoo in the early 2000s after only using Unix and redhat since about '96.
If someone really truly wants to learn Linux (sysadmin types) I tell them to start with Gentoo, not Mint. You don’t learn anything when everything has been dumbed down or obfuscated from you.
I couldn’t have asked for a better distro to learn on, and I’ve been thinking about going back.
Perhaps in the past it was more educational, but nowadays you start with stage3 and everything is so streamlined, that I didn’t learn all that much from installing it.