Linux Quiz: 15 Questions to Test Your Basic Linux Knowledge
I don't use the terminal but thought some others might like the quiz.
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Using the terminal is one of the reasons I use Linux. And Macs.
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I use Linux because it is not Windows and I am to frugal to buy a Mac. Usually I buy refurbished laptops from somewhere like Amazon or New Egg, wipe it and install Linux. I have also picked up some perfectly good laptops others were going to recycle and instead took them off their hands so they didn't have to do anything. My wife did buy me my current laptop a System 76 darter pro which I wiped Pop and installed Ubuntu Mate. I do have a pretty good cheat sheet if I need the terminal. But it took me about 4 years to figure out the cd command. I would put cd downloads and get directory doesn't exist. Well mostly Linux doesn't use caps and I finally saw that the home directory it was Downloads. LOL. So probably never going to be a terminal expert.
Basically I just surf the net, do email and edit music. Never touched a computer until I was in my forties and am 69 now. Linux works great for me
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Weird! When I visited the page, it had both the questions and answers, but I would have had them all correct! 
That's a little hot-rod! I can visualize the bent-chrome exhaust pipes angled up towards the back!
Did you eventually set the shell prompt variable (namely "PS1=" in ~/.bashrc, to display your current directory?
I turn 70 in November! ... but my first real intro to computers (not counting the "toy" programs we learned in university back in the late 1970s) came with learning "SPLIT" (Sundstrand Processing Language Internally Translated) in 1981 to control Machine-Tools, followed by the first generation of IBM "Catia" (3D Mechanical CAD/CAM) in 1983, to control 5-axis CNC cutting of a "blisk" axial compressor for Pratt & Whitney Canada.
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No and I have no idea what the question even means, let alone how to do that.
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Don't feel bad. I'd wager that 90% or more DOS/Windows users never changed their C:\ prompt.
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My own bash prompt is:
If you do want to change the shell prompt, there are a number of resources that explain the how of doing so:
It really is not that difficult, if you would like to customize. You might also want to consider this: the prompt can be defined such that the prefix string is presented on a first line, while the prompt character ("$" or"#") is presented on a second line by itself, thereby offering any new command entry to be fully visible on a single line (for the most part).
As always, keep a backup copy of your .bashrc, to recover from any changes you can't unscramble.
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Not trying to chase you away from UM ... but did you ever hear of UbuntuStudio?
Have you ever tried that and, if so, what made you stay with UM? Was US a massive "overkill" for what you were interested in doing? Or was the toolset aimed at a more complex "workflow" than what you wanted? Or was it just too much bloat for the scope of music editing that you did?
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I had use gnome2 and when gnome three came out I needed a new OS. Ubuntu Mate was it. I had tried Xandros way back and didn't have the skills to use it. Plus the LILO boot loader disappeared all the time and the only thing I could do was reinstall. Then I used Zorin with a modified gnome2 desktop which I used 6-10 but they went 'windows like' so I moved on to Solus one, then Solus 2 again which were both modified gnome2 desktops, which Ikey both shutdown overnight. So I moved on to Point Linux (Mate) which was Debian with what Debian should have been but the Russian developer shut that down due to lack of time, he was a one man operation and if I remember correctly worked for the government too.
After that I tried Debian, solved the 'no propitiatory and software' myself. But I found out the Debian forum is not very friendly to anyone but Linux geeks. While I used Debian I never once asked a question or posted on the forum after I read other answers, RTFM was probably the most given advice.
So I decided I needed a major distribution, that wouldn't go away overnight, had the Mate Desktop and had a newbie friendly forum. I learned on Debian based OS and didn't want to learn on any other packages. I did try Cinnamon, KDE and Xfce desktops and found the lacking what I wanted. I have tried Mint Mate, Sprial Linux Mate, Siduction, Sparky Mate, and Pearl Mate. I found them all lacking or having poor forums so I have stuck with Ubuntu Mate which meets all my requirements. I also like that it is a community edition so lacks many of standard Ubuntu's more egregious and intrusive elements.
Debian based + Mate desktop + large development team + newbie friendly forum.
That = Ubuntu Mate
Ubuntu Studio is a KDE Plasma desktop which I find bloated with software I don't need or want that is part of the core of the OS. Mint was very close and I used if for months, but the forum was no where near what Ubuntu Mate offers. If you look at their forum you will find pages and pages of unanswered newbie questions. So as long as Ubuntu Mate exists it will be my OS.
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