Rate yourself with Linux!

[oz]

How do you all rate yourselves when it comes to using and understanding Linux?

Are you a beginner or perhaps an intermediate user... or do you know your way around the operating system well enough now that you consider yourself to be an expert, or maybe even a full fledged master?

Feel free to add any comments about your skills along with your vote if you'd like.

[MASONTX]

I'm not a helpless newbie, but a long way from what I would consider intermediate.

[MikeTbob]

Intermediate for me, I'm getting behind in learning new stuff.

[nujinini]

If I may define:

Beginner: Just installed first OS and have been playing around with it for the past few months.

Intermediate: Can navigate comfortably in Desktop with a little knowledge on CLI and some minor trouble shooting.

Expert Can install Arch Linux without any guide and have a fair knowledge of setting up different kinds of servers on his own.

Master Can hack, attack, defend and protect a system. Can make and design a new OS. Really good enough that people are willing to pay for his services.

THEN: I rate myself an Intermediate user.

Thank you!

[nujinini]

Intermediate for me, I'm getting behind in learning new stuff.

MikeTbob, your too modest buddy .

[MikeTbob]

MikeTbob, your too modest buddy .

No, not when I think of how much there is to learn about Linux. There is quiet a few things about Linux that I have never dabbled in, mostly because I have no need, nor time. I know that I'm fairly competent with Linux, but man, there are some super, super smart people out there.

[gruven]

Intermediate for me.

I can install Gentoo/Funtoo without a guide, and most other distros that are text based, but there is still a LOT that I haven't learned yet.

[nujinini]

No, not when I think of how much there is to learn about Linux. There is quiet a few things about Linux that I have never dabbled in, mostly because I have no need, nor time.

Well, in that context, I have to agree that there is so much more to learn about Linux.

It's like being a medical doctor? One graduates from medical school. Practices his craft. Chooses a specialization. Then a sub-specialty. And still new things come up. There is indeed no end to learning.

[Roxoff]

I consider myself to be an 'expert' in this context; not because I know lots (actually it's quite the opposite), but because I understand many of the principles behind how stuff works in Linux and because I know where to look and who to ask to find out those things that I don't know.

[reed9]

Apparently I'm an expert by those definitions, but given everything that's out there and that I'm just an average computer user, I'd say barely intermediate.