/tech/ - Soyence and Technology

ignore the fake png btw

arch wiki, and the gentoo wiki are the places I would recommend people go for that kind of thing. And specifically for installing gentoo their handbook is about as good as it gets in my opinion. You just follow through the whole thing, and you're guaranteed to have a working install.

>>42742
This.

>>42742
>>42751
Thx 'teens but I also meant it as learning about computer soyence in general (I care fan about arch, gentoo and LFS but the wiki I meant wasn't the official gentoo one but rather 4cuck's /g/ wiki called "install gentoo")

>>42788
yeah. the answer is the same. Both are some of the better places to go for that kind of stuff.

>>42842
Thanks 'teen

>>42788
the intall gentoo wiki died years ago saar
its not used

Read some stuff about assembly to get a general idea of what's happening at the super low level. Install a distro manually (arch or gentoo or whatever) without using a video tutorial (this typically forces you to actually gain some level of understanding of what you're typing) and read some textbooks on programming. For some edutainment the jewtube channel "Computerphile" is pretty gemmy.

My general advice is that when learning anything in computing try to get to the original source of information as much as possible, it's often much less abstracted in the original documentation than in say a youtube tutorial. If you try to read some documentation that you don't understand but is otherwise gemmy just look up the terms you don't know and gain the base knowledge required, then move on to the original documentation.

If your computer has more than 4GB of memory set up a non-graphical Linux VM with QEMU and mess around with it, something fun I tried to do a while ago was to write a program that allocates too much memory and crashes the VM. Troubleshooting is often the best learning experience as it's the most practical knowledge you can possibly pick up.

Sorry for the text wall I'll going to commit the suicide o algo.

P.S. C is a gemmy level of abstraction to understand computing at.

>>42877
>C is a gemmy level of abstraction to understand computing at.
TRVKE
C is good to learn because it is very close to actual asm.

C is very simple and powerful and if you learn it then learning everything else will be easier because most languages use C like syntax and are basically the same thing but with extra abstractions.

The issue with learning something like Python is you understand computers as a bunch of magic containers. When you get good at C you can read low level code (C, C++, Rust, etc) and be able to understand basically exactly what your hardware is doing at any given code.

Also if you learn C you'll be able pick up most C++ pretty quickly and easily.

>arch wiki, and the gentoo wiki are the places I would recommend people go for that kind of thing. And specifically for installing gentoo their handbook is about as good as it gets in my opinion. You just follow through the whole thing, and you're guaranteed to have a working install.

please do not use arch linux especially as your first OS if you want to learn about linux. for personal use i use fedora but for a start id recommend literally any other distro

>>42877
TSMT o algo

For gaining computer literacy I would stray away from bullshit distros like arch and I'd personally recommend playing around with debian on a VM. I started with network engineering then pivoted to cybersecurity so I didn't pay as much attention to most compsci/dev things like reading into asm docs but I started with electrical engineering and slowly moved up through the OSI model. I use linux as a daily driver but I'm a pretty casual enduser im not a dev or anything, what helped me learn the most was just immersion I started off learning like basic stuff like bash linux filesystem like systemmd o algx asi and like what GNU is just like introductory stuff then about like bios/firmware (i use a chromebook with custom firmware so i had to) then i got into cybersecurity so i learned python for scripting etc so as i used the computer more i had more issues that required troubleshooting or solutions, solving the problems made me learn more about what i was using i guess. I wouldnt even say read docs for everything because thats not how people learn but if you want to be better at compsci then youtube is your friend

>>42892
Fedora is the best generalist distro to be honest, good for beginners too who aren't grandma-tier in computer literacy