Roadmap

📚 Collections

• Bash one-liner collection
• Bash snippet collection
• Collection of Ansible Playbooks

🪟🐧 From Windows to Linux

• Try Linux Right Inside Windows
• Installing Linux alongside Windows
  • Upgrading Linux Mint 20 to Linux Mint 21.1
  • Native upgrade from Linux Mint 21.3 to Linux Mint 22
• Installing Windows Applications on Linux

💻 Linux Command Line

• Introduction: command types, plain text, file system, shell prompt
• Navigating the system and viewing directories: pwd, ls, cd commands
• Output and reading content: echo, cat, less commands
• Working with files: touch, mkdir, cp, mv, rm commands
• File links (links): the ln command
• Input and output redirection: the “>”, “<”, “|” operators
• Controlling command execution: the “&&”, “||”, “;” and “&” operators
• Processes: jobs, fg, bg, ps, pgrep, kill, pkill, htop commands
• File permissions: id, chmod, chown commands
• Privilege escalation: su, sudo commands
• Archiving and compression: tar, gzip, bzip2, xz, zstd and zip, 7z, rar commands

🐚 Shell Scripting

• Bash one-liner collection
• Bash snippet collection
• How to learn to write Bash scripts: recommended materials
• A bit about shebang in Linux
• Configuring logging of command/script output
• flock — locks in shell scripts
• Bash: Peculiarities of arithmetic operations — increment ((expression++))
• Bash: An example of optimizing filter commands with grep and awk
• Writing a bash script to connect to an OpenConnect VPN server
• Bash: Writing a Universal Host Availability Check Script
• Bash: Writing a script to simulate mouse activity
• Bash: Generating configs via envsubst, here document, and here string

👨‍⚕️ Linux Server Administration

• SSH — Secure Connection to Remote Hosts: Introduction
  • SSH – Fine-tuning the client in Linux: config file and ssh-agent
  • SSH - Port Forwarding: Local and Reverse Tunnels
  • Forced Command in SSH: Running Only One Command Without Shell Access
• Initial Linux server setup using Debian as an example
• Ansible — configuration management system: getting to know it
  • Writing an ansible playbook for initial Linux server configuration
  • ansible-cmdb - Structuring and Visualizing Ansible Facts
• Basic Nftables configuration in Linux with a Bash script

🏭 Your Own Infrastructure

• Setting up an OpenConnect SSL VPN server (ocserv) in docker for internal projects
  • Writing a bash script to connect to an OpenConnect VPN server
  • Building OpenConnect (ocserv) Version 1.3 From Source in Debian 12 + Docker Image
  • A quick way to check VPN connection speed using SSH
• Configuring an OpenConnect middle server for access to a closed network
• Setting up your own DNS server Unbound and ad blocker Pi-hole in docker
  • Building a Docker image for the Unbound DNS server
• Setting up a Zabbix 7 + TimescaleDB monitoring server in docker
• Setting up a Syncthing file synchronization server in docker
• An example of installing OpenWrt on a Xiaomi Redmi AX6000 router from Linux
  • Connecting OpenWrt to an OpenConnect Server
  • Configuring DNS over HTTPS (DoH) on OpenWrt
• Setting Up Your Own Hugo Site with Content Publishing via Obsidian
• A convenient Docker lab with blackjack and a Web GUI
• RustFS - Installing and Configuring S3-Compatible Storage
• Arkeep - Centralized Backup Server with Agents, Based on Restic and Rclone

📦 Virtualization

• Installing VirtualBox in Linux Mint 21
• Installing a Debian 12 Server in VirtualBox
• Preparing a qcow2 Virtual Machine Image Using Debian as an Example
• Creating a VM Template with cloud-init in Proxmox
• Creating infrastructure in Proxmox using Terraform or OpenTofu
• Installing Docker Engine on a Linux Server Running Debian

🛠 Linux Power User Toolkit

GUI:

• Crow Translate — The Most Convenient Text Translator
• Convenient and Reliable Password Storage — KeePass
• Guake — A Drop-Down Terminal
• VSCodium — a Fork of the Popular VSCode without Telemetry from Microsoft
• Zed — a New Open Source Code Editor in Rust from the Developers of Electron and Atom
• Ungoogled-chromium — a fork of the Chromium web browser without Google telemetry
• OpenSnitch — manual control of network activity of Linux applications
• Obsidian — a progressive note-taking tool for PC and smartphone
• SSH Pilot - Modern SSH session manager for Linux
• Universal search and use of CLI commands via rofi

CLI:

• VIM — Console Editor: An Introduction
  • Why Do Many IT Specialists Like Vim So Much?
• Neovim — Installing and Configuring a Code Editor with IDE Features in Just a Few Commands
  • Neovim — editor configuration: basic setup
  • Neovim — editor configuration: swap, backup and undo files
  • Neovim — editor configuration: hotkey setup and command autostart
  • Neovim — editor configuration: installing and configuring plugins
• ZSH — Interactive Command Shell for Linux + Oh-My-Zsh
  • Customizing .zshrc when using Oh My Zsh
  • Writing a Function for Quick Access to Complex Commands in Zsh and Bash
• bat, exa — Syntax Highlighting for Standard Output in the Linux Terminal (cat, less, tail and ls)
• Tmux — Installation and Customization + Nord theme
• netboot.xyz — Installing Linux Online from a USB Flash Drive
• Making a terminator USB flash drive: ventoy + netboot.xyz + bitlocker
• Ollama — Local AI on your Linux PC
• ShellGPT — an AI assistant in your Linux terminal
• Rclone mount - Mounting SFTP, WebDAV, S3 network storages as a local directory in Linux
• mkcert - Valid Self-Signed TLS Certificates in 3 Commands in the Linux Terminal
• How to find all tags of a Docker image - the skopeo utility

👨‍💻 Customizing the Linux Workspace

• Initial setup of Linux Mint 20/21
• Customizing Linux Mint 20/21 + Nord theme
• Initial setup of the Firefox browser
• Customizing the browser home page
• Xsnow — Falling Snow on Your Linux Desktop
• Making functional desktop notifications in Linux: buttons, icons, links