"Everything is a file" is what made me start understanding linux few years ago and from there it got easier to use with each new concept.

Still this was really revolutionary to me when I first heard it. Made a bunch of things just click.

Experienced users : archwiki & gentoo handbook, shell scripting, autotools, packaging, and dmesg

new users : "everything is a file"
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[–] 10 points 10 months ago

Also hardware is treated like a file in /dev

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