hey, when you’re used to GUIs, the install finishes and you’re staring at a command line with no idea how to get started with the desktop, yeah it’s “the hard way”.
It’s not hard, but you have to know WTF is going on. It surprised me when I got sent to the command line after reboot, I lucked out because I changed DE while I was distro hopping so knew how to install from apt.



Maybe try it from the other way around : look for tutorials that help you achieve your goals, and contextualise the tutorial to your project.
I am wrapping up the Django tutorial because I needed to make a database that held the information on where I put my taxes instead of just ramming them in the downloads folder. I just followed the django tutorial on the official website, but changed variable names etc to make it suit my needs.
I’m also working on improving my bash skills. I made a clock chime to learn cases :
https://lemmy.world/post/43115099