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I'm new to using Linux, and want to try Robolinux MATE 3D, but not finding any sort of user guide. Even the wiki page on sourceforge is pretty useless. I hear the OS is based on Debian...would an instructional book on Debian Linux be enough to get me started? What about the VM custom stuff? How would I learn it?
Distribution: Debian testing/sid; OpenSuSE; Fedora; Mint
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You probably won't find a comprehensive user guide for any distro, because it would be just too large to even be usable. Most of Linux is the same across distros. The distro-specific stuff applies across distros based on the same distro. So, yes, most Dedian-based distros work pretty much the same way.
You probably won't find a comprehensive user guide for any distro, because it would be just too large to even be usable. Most of Linux is the same across distros. The distro-specific stuff applies across distros based on the same distro. So, yes, most Dedian-based distros work pretty much the same way.
I was hoping RoboLinux might have some sort of user guide hidden away, like MX Linux does. Okay, so I will get a couple Debian instructional books. Thanks for the answer.
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