 Okay, so I'm about to give you guys the best advice you could ever get when it comes to learning about Linux or Unix or computers generally or anything else, any kind of software. This is a trade secret of my channel. In fact, it's a trade secret of lots of channels, but it never hurts to tell everyone about it because even, in fact, you probably already know this, but you have not implemented it in your life in a way that, like, actually is paying off. And the secret advice is really just read the manual. Now let me put it this way. There are two resources that everyone who is using Linux should be familiar with. The big one is this crazy command called MAN, which is literally like the best program ever because what MAN does is if you open up your terminal and you type in MAN and then you type in a program, MAN tells you everything about that program there is to know. It gives you all the options, all the different settings you can have that will often be sub-pages and stuff like that. Everything you need to know is in MAN. Now if you want to go a little further, there's another great resource that everyone needs to know about. And that second one is the ArchWiki. And it doesn't matter if you use Arch Linux or anything else, but the ArchWiki is one of the best resources you can look at because it's the place, keep in mind Arch Linux is a Linux distribution where you install everything from the bottom up, which is really nice if you want a system that's catered to your interests. But the thing about that is people who use Arch Linux have to sort of know how everything is working. So it's a good resource even if you're using Ubuntu, if you want to figure out how something works you go to the ArchWiki. Now things are not going to be really different across distributions mainly because distributions are just like cultural constructs basically. But those are the best two things that you can possibly learn to use. That is MAN and the ArchWiki. Now the better one of those is MAN because MAN has basically all the options you can look at when you're using a program and you can also access it anywhere. You don't even need internet access. Now I will say really I owe the reason my YouTube channel exists and the reason that I'm doing what I'm doing rather than just sort of dragging along using Windows 10 or maybe vanilla Ubuntu or something like that. The reason I'm doing what I'm doing is because there was a period in my life you may know I put up a video about it where I didn't have internet for around two years. And so there were a lot of times where I was at home and I had to do something on the computer and I was in a position where I have two options. One is just use MAN and see what's going on or the second which is also a valid option is try and figure things out myself by just basically running random commands or something like that which isn't the best option but sometimes it helps to tinker around. So when you're in a position of that you know like that you get rid of like your first reflex. Now keep in mind I'm not you know down talking to anyone who does this because everyone has done it like especially if you started on Windows and Mac like pretty much everyone you're in a mindset where if something goes wrong on your computer you look it up on the internet because all of your programs try to be as transparent as they can. They have huge graphical interfaces. They have help menus that don't really help. So if you have problems you look them up online you search the error message or something like that and usually the first couple of results will be whatever you're looking for. But the thing about it is like every UNIX program you know really as part of not just UNIX programs but you know all the programs you're going to be using on Linux or something like that they all come with man pages where everything is basically explained and you don't just get ad hoc explanations for how to solve one particular error message you really get an understanding of how programs are actually working. So you know it puts you in a totally different position where you know instead of responding to error well let me let me put it this way and you know I'm not super big brain when it comes to computers I mean I do what I do on my YouTube channel I'm not really a programmer but I get emails a lot from people that have very specific problems that I've never had. They're like this has gone wrong on my computer. This is messing up thing A is messing up thing B is doing something weird and if you understand how come you know the actual programs are working or how your system is actually sort of doing this or that you can easily hear the symptoms of the disease and diagnose it like people will email me with a bunch of questions and I'll pretty much respond oh I've never had that but that's probably you know you probably don't have your Pearl libraries in your path directory or something like that or very particular problems are pretty easily diagnosable when you actually know what's going on so I think the mindset you have to get out of so again the two things are use man and use the ArchWiki because they're helpful but more important than both of those is really getting out of the mindset where you're responding to problems as they come up you have to be in a position where you know you are you are sort of taking it one step at a time but you're learning about how the system actually works at its core and you're actually like you you know you can have more clever solutions to things you can predict where problems might arise and stuff like that and that's the mindset I think everyone should sort of be in instead of just being like oh I had an error I don't know how to address this I looked it up on Google I looked it up on Reddit or something and it's not it's not working so that's the most important like the thing about especially if you're using Linux or especially if you're using a Linux distribution which is like Arch or Gintu where you install everything basically yourself it's very rewarding to actually know what's going on in your system like there is really no problem I mean people will often say oh you know you know the memes that are like oh Xorg fucked up again and I cancel my meetings mom whatever it is where oh Arch Linux or Gintu is buggy but the thing is they're not really buggy what's actually going on is like the ball is in your side of the court you have the responsibility which isn't a difficult responsibility but you have the ability to put your system together the way you want and if something goes wrong if when something does go wrong on my computer which doesn't happen very often but when it does like I pretty much immediately know what it is it's like oh Polybar didn't start after I got an update well I should recompile it because I compiled it with a different version of this plug-in or something like that just things like that that where you know basically the problems that you run into like if you know what you're doing and you're you keep your mind open to like learning for how the system works you never run into a problem that is more trivial than just like oh this program shut down or something like that there's nothing that really goes wrong you know I'm using Arch Linux and parabola and I never really run into problems that are even at the scale that I used to have on Windows or Mac computers so anyway that that's just what I wanted to put out like I think that the most important takeaway is just like get out of the mindset where you search for bug reports like get in the mindset of trying to understand how the programs you use actually work and honestly you should also be a little suspicious of programs that you that are too big for you to understand I mean I'm not saying you have to you have to look at the source code yourself but I'm saying if there's a program that's so enormous that you don't necessarily understand the logic to it a lot of times it's better to use something a little simpler so that's all I have to say there's just general advice just because the best thing that I can do don't get me wrong I love putting out videos and you know getting attention or whatever but I think the best takeaway you could I mean you know teach a man to fish and he can feed himself for a lifetime that's what I'm trying to say so anyway that that's all I have to say today so I'll see you guys next time