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(Before you flame, I said “seemed.”) It was much more like reverse-engineering or solving a bothersome puzzle than just ‘using’. (I at least knew that unlike DOS, where most basic commands are stuffed into, everything in Linux was it’s own program.) I didn’t totally trust this method of figurign things out though, because things seemed to be scattered everywhere with little thought or reason.

Now, I had to find a directoy with the few commands I knew and ‘man’ everything I could see, writing down what would be useful. (Let’s just get ‘vi’ over with and just say, “Beep!” … “How the &$#* do I just exit?!”) I thought to myself, “Then why does it even exist?” I wanted to figure out what command that I don’t know, does what task that I want to do, but ‘man’ only works if I already know the command. (From a friend, I didn’t have an internet connection at the time.) I remember it had something like: ls, cd, rm, vi, mkdir, man. (And any kind of impotence, I would assume, feels very very bad.) I din’t know the directory structure, I didn’t know any config files (where are they, what should I expect in them), I didn’t know any commands.

I’m an old casual DOS user, but that’s exactly what it was like for me the first time I used Linux. “A novice’s greatest fear is sitting in front of a motionless command prompt with no idea what to type or, as so frequently happens, knowing a command that he copied verbatim from a document discovered on the internet somewhere, but with no idea of what it means or how to alter it if it doesn’t behave exactly as advertised.”

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