I’ve got a Pop_OS system76 machine that runs well straight out of the box. I love it and it’s my daily driver. However I’d like to learn more about how it works, Linux internals and how to use it to the best of its capabilities. I want to learn about things like system-d Wayland, error logging (there seems to be a few of them) directory structure and drivers. For instance, how do I know that my and GPU is being leveraged to the fullest?

I DONT want to build a system from the ground up, which I expect to be a common suggestion.

I’d prefer to read literature, blogs, and articles relevant to me, my system and not dated.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
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    5 days ago

    You want to read literature? Try the man pages available from a shell / terminal. Don’t know where to start? man hier, man proc, man 5 sysfs for three. Those are where Linux puts important things or rather, in the case of the latter two, where the Linux kernel likes to pretend they are for easy access. The ‘SEE ALSO’ section of at least one of those suggests other interesting reading, and on and on.

    If that’s not a direction you want to go but still want to know about something that you think might be in the Linux manual pages, try man -k keyword or apropos keyword. Replace keyword with what you want to know about and it will list all the manual pages that have the keyword in their name or description.