I was a novice and still I am. I never planned my life to change this way. It all started with a bad motive. I just wanted to use my neighbors wireless. I could never figure out how to achieve it. I started gathering information from a site which people call Google. I got a brief idea that windows is a dumb ass in the world of computing. The real fun lies in Unix & Linux.
PS: For a fact 94.2% supercomputers use Linux.
So I began searching and reading about Linux. Ubuntu being the most popular in student society due to its GUI interface similar to windows. GUI limits the computer to work on over specific clicks: (pre -defined). Developers don’t allow them to limit the possibilities. So for beginners I would suggest Fedora from Red Hat Enterprise.
Within a few days of my first hands on Linux I fell in deep-shit love with it. I joined dgplug (Durgapur Linux Users Group) following the suggestion of a senior Sayan Choudhury who is now a developer of Fedora. This group helps novice’s to grow day by day. You do it for the love of coding. Things will be a bit frustrating at beginning but you’re old enough to handle it.
how i started on linux 