This is just adorable, isn’t it?
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basically am a wizard at this point
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I can’t tie my shoes but I’m an Advanced Linux User. 
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I’m a level 5!
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Lol, I must have been an advanced linux user almost from day 1 then, I started with gentoo, although I had technically used ubuntu before (very briefly as part of a school assignment where we put together a desktop and installed ubuntu on it lol)
On the first day I didn’t just use the terminal a bit, but used it exclusively (because I started with gentoo and I failed to install it a few times because despite clear instructions and community help i still found ways to fck it up 
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And I had already used some of the more popular linux native programs like firefox, chrome (who hasn’t used chrome?) blender and some others…
So 1 day is apparently all it takes to become an advanced linux user.
I wonder what I would be classified as now; because I do not despite everything feel particularly advanced, I feel like I am now just a kinda average superuser; I’m better with Linux now than I was with Windows when I left it (because Linux demands more of it’s superusers, on windows I never had to use command prompt, and only really editered registry keys through .regs other people wrote; by comparison I now have experience compiling my own software, a script folder with over 100 scripts many of which I still regularly use, i’m using one of those environments only outrageously nerdy people use (hyprland…), it’s even tilling, no normal person uses tiling window management! I’ve tweaked the kernel, I’ve messed with compilation flags and options, and I could go on… And to get to a comparable level of comfortable with linux as i was with windows, I needed all this shit, but I didn’t let that stop me and here I am.)
So if I started my linux experience as an advanced linux user, what am I now? I guess sometimes friends who also use linux call me a wizard, but I think the most accurate description is probably just that “I use arch™ btw”
If I were to make a comparable list, I don’t think there’d be a single item on it that matches this one 
But the first item would definitely be “you understand the linux filesystem structure” (e.g. the structure of everything between root and your home folder); that shit confused me for a very long time.
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Well put. 
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nope.
I think important things is what you create on linux.
I don’t care “I AM NOT A ADVANCED LINUX USER” as long as my software work normally.
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That would be the first thing on the list though technically, customization, bending the system to your will.
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Did all that on day one, like two decades ago. And the only thing I know is that I know nothing. And even that I am unsure about.
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Welp time to update my LinkedIn profile with the fact that I am an Advanced Linux User Level 5 lol
I was doing all this just getting my feet wet: terminal, leaning on forums, using apps, trying a couple DE’s…and I was a helpless newb. “Advanced”? Title needs a re-write: “5 Signs you’ve spent a year using Linux.”
Writing bin/bash commands? that’s advanced. knowing your way around iptables and sealing different ports shut? that’s advanced. monitoring your own traffic? that’s advanced. using your desktop as a remote server? that’s advanced. having a troubleshooting command on the ready for any such problem? that’s advanced.
I can’t do none ^^^ of that stuff. it’s what I consider ‘advanced’ anyway.
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This used to be old hat and everyone had to do it, but I doubt the majority of “advanced users” could compile their own kernel competently the first time (well unless they have been doing it regularly still). I would probably forget some critical component the first time I did it, it’s been quite a number of years now, since I was familiar with what was where in the ‘make config’. But yes, I think ability to compile a kernel should be one of the measures.
How is writing bash commands advanced?
speaking for myself/I flub these all the time
just use tab
well i suppose it won’t help you with args all that much… when you need help with that use --help or man. I learned all that in my first week lol.
Although I only just learned about tldr the other day, woulda been nice to know about that one sooner.
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Q. How to tell if you are an advanced Linux user?
A. Lack any interest in videos and/or web postings that attempt to help you gauge what level Linux user you happen to be.
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Level 5 
Well i score on all subjects but i’m not sure that would qualify me as a advanced user.
I work with my Linux pc’s every day still to discover something i didn’t know…
Linux is a learning curve, just like it was with ms-dos, Windows or any other OS
But compared to a average user that only use their pc for browsing/email etc i am a advanced user haha
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An advanced Linux user is one who never thinks they are an advanced Linux user.
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True, there’s always a higher level, a shelf you can’t quite reach. I was definitely not advanced when I modified an open source keyboard driver to work the way i wanted with my keyboard, I think I had only been using linux for like 2 months or something then, but it still sounds pretty advanced to me today, and I hesitate to go through that kind of madness again even now.
I just really wanted my keyboard to work, u know?
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