Wow... this week was a doozy! The Linux tutorials were very time consuming for me. Maybe because I can be quite a perfectionist and I want to get everything just right. The VIM tutorial had 7 lessons and I went through each one and repeated the directions and practiced the applicable commands as I went along. I also took rather voracious notes so that I would have them for future reference. So far I have come to realize that dealing with Linux is going to require a LOT of reference materials.
I never completed the .bashrc configuration tutorial correctly. I tried over and over again. I added lines, spaces, hash tags, etc. to try and get it to work... all to no avail. The final tutorial assigned for this week was easy for me. Configuring the etc/apt/sources.list was a walk in the park compared to the .bashrc exercise for some mysterious reason... go figure. I was only following directions. Maybe the problem lies in the fact that I was used to VIM and was trying to use those commands in nano. I also tried the .bashrc configuration using VIM, or so I thought, and I still couldn't get it to function properly. Ah well, the joys of learning something new. All this Linux information, between the readings and tutorials, is exactly like learning a foreign language. Persistence, practice, and patience will be required if I want to succeed in the end.
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