Learn Linux
Never fear a Linux terminal again. Learn how to use the command line to navigate a unix-like filesystem and automate developer tasks.
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Lane Wagner
Lane is a back-end engineer and the lead instructor of Boot.dev. He has taught over one million students worldwide, on Boot.dev, FreeCodeCamp, YouTube and the Backend Banter podcast. Lane worked as a backend engineer writing Go, Python and TypeScript, then moved into engineering management and a couple of years later left to build Boot.dev full-time.
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So many developers go years before understanding the basics of shells, terminals, and Linux (or more generally Unix-like systems). Here you'll learn to navigate files and directories, install dependencies, configure your PATH, and use powerful CLI tools like grep, find, and pipes. Never fear the command line again, make it fear you.
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It kept me engaged and it was a great refresher for some commands!
Juan Jose GG
Germany
This is excellent coverage of a Linux/terminal crash course.
Lee J
United States
It's great learning experience for me. Thank you boot.dev
Arindam Das
India
Didn't take me much thinking to switch from windows
mohamed djaballah
Algeria
Great idea for a UNIX-based course and got to learn a lot (I would recommend making notes since after a point it gets hard to keep track of commands). I loved the fictional idea of being a hired developer? This idea can be expanded greatly and I see huge potential for the gamification aspect of it. 10/10 (or 5/5 in this case) course
Adarsh Pai
India
A very wonderful introduction to WSL, I have installed stuff before to run custom tools for modding, etc., but I never knew what things did when pasting the code/text into the terminal.
Erik Wiklander
Canada
Great course as always
Nemanja Bosancic
Bosnia & Herzegovina
interesting first approach to linux
Federico Savastano
Buenos Aires, Argentina
I just finished the Linux course on boot.dev and it was fantastic. The content is practical, objective, and straight to the point. It is exactly what you need if you want to get comfortable in the command line and actually understand the fundamentals. Highly recommend it!
Vitor Aliaga
Brazil
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