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Chris Titus published his book "The Linux Desktop Guide"

Check this out, Chris Titus, a tech youtuber and former systems administrator who is probably most well known for his Windows debloating program winutils has published a book that is intended to be a guide for new Linux users.

Reading through it, it seems like a nice surface level rundown on the most important components, commands and troubleshooting steps. I might consider linking it alongside linuxjourney and such in the future.

I figure it deserves a post here as he made it free as a website and it looks to be a nice contribution to the community. Also the more knowledgeable of you may see if they find any inaccuracies, who knows.

I will leave out the amazon link because automoderator keeps swallowing it, I figure his own store is fair enough and Amazon is in the video description as well for those who want a physical copy.

His video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=dVmXcRwIobA

Digital / EPUB (cttstore.com): https://cttstore.com

Free online: https://thelinuxbook.com

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YouTube The Linux Desktop Guide I've been on Linux for years and I always wished there was ONE book that gave me a real foundation — not a distro tier list, not 1,000 pages of niche edge cases, just a practical guide to understanding Linux and making it your own. So I wrote it. The Linux…
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