I once read a book called "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey which explains the qualities that a person has to imbibe to be highly successful in life. It is a great book which provides inspiration to people to act and make positive changes in their lives.
Guess what, Rami Taibah has compiled a set of 7 habits that Linux users can use to be highly effective which makes a great read. The list goes as follows :
- Never login as root - This is redundant if you are using a Linux distribution such as Ubuntu which uses sudo to elevate a user temporarily to super user mode. Nevertheless a valid point.
- Properly name your files - I usually stick with that but even if you have spaces in the names of your files, bash completion helps you in getting the names of the files right.
- Place /home in its own partition - I concur with that wholeheartedly. Read this article to know more about partitions.
- Proper crash management - Use xkill and the likes to close a misbehaving application.
- Try out multiple distributions - You have got a whole lot of them to choose from.
- Brush up your command line skills - Learn to use command line tools to accomplish complex tasks. It is a big time saver. Don't forget to pick up some bash scripting skills on the way.
- And finally, always be ready to unleash the power within - in other words experiment.
