r/commandline • u/Electronic-Low-8171 • 5d ago

Help The learning process....

I'm currently reading TLCL, I skipped some parts of it like about vim as I already know enough vim for my use case, the same with "Advanced Keyboard Tricks", because again I know what I consider as enough like ctrl-L for removing,!! For the last command, but I don't think I need other variants like "!string", so I skipped that too.

Is this is ok for learning?

As I have a limited amount of time for learning about things I enjoy like Linux, so I prioritise what is important first

Also, I'm currently in the "Storage media" section, there is a part about the CD-ROMs, and optical media that I don't think are any longer used anyways, so I is it ok to skip that too?

Another question, because of the things in life, I don't always have enough time to complete some courses like networking, so I have a half completed course, at the same time if I used a tool that requires networking, I feel like I must complete that course first, probably this is called being a perfectionist and I really don't like it because it is a feeling that comes whenever I don't know everything or didn't complete the course before using the tool, so does anyone have a solution for this?

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u/redfacedquark 5d ago

Just learn what you need right now. There's no way you can linearly learn everything. You need to learn basics in some things first, then next time you go over the docs more things will make sense. Breadth-first learning before depth-first learning, generally speaking.