Although its just another OS, linux does have a major learning curve for the common GUI enjoyer like me.
When you all were first learning linux, did you have a specific resource you learned from? Was it more like doing projects and learning on the way through forums?
Back when I was starting bookstores had basic references from publishers like Reilly’s e.g. Unix in a Nutshell. You want something with a good index that you can find guides for the main utilities.
The good old days used a lot of plain text files so utilities like grep, sed and awk could handle most of the processing. Now I think you’d need more complex tools and their libraries to handle the structured text.
Meeh, nothing that nano can’t handle IMO. For quick edits (which is more than 90% of what you’d need to do for configuring this or that), it does the job just fine.