{"id":231709,"date":"2026-04-06T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/the-7-levels-of-linux-users-which-one-are-you\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T08:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:45:11","slug":"the-7-levels-of-linux-users-which-one-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/the-7-levels-of-linux-users-which-one-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The 7 levels of Linux users: Which one are you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/levels-of-being-a-linux-user\/\">The 7 levels of Linux users: Which one are you?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/levels-of-being-a-linux-user\/\">https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/levels-of-being-a-linux-user\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-06 07:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.howtogeek.com\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Linux has a weird way of pulling you deeper. One day you\u2019re installing Ubuntu, and before you know it, you\u2019re tweaking configs, switching distros, and living in the terminal. As such, if you\u2019ve been using Linux for some time now, a natural question pops up\u2014how far down the rabbit hole have you actually gone? Here are the seven levels of Linux users to help you see where you land.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"level-1-you-installed-your-first-linux-distro\">\n                        Level 1: You installed your first Linux distro<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"everyone-needs-to-start-somewhere\">\n            Everyone needs to start somewhere<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>Your Linux journey officially begins the moment you install your first distro\u2014and for most people, that\u2019s Ubuntu. It\u2019s the most popular Linux distro, practically synonymous with Linux\u2014and for good reason. It\u2019s stable, reliable, and optimized for general use, meaning you can get most of your work done without running into complicated technicalities.<\/p>\n<p>That said, some of you might have a well-intentioned Linux-savvy friend\u2014or maybe you did some preliminary research before committing to a new OS\u2014and came across Linux Mint or Zorin OS. Technically, these distros are also based on Ubuntu, but they offer a more familiar, Windows-like layout along with additional tweaks that make them especially beginner-friendly.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage, you\u2019re at level one: you\u2019ve installed your first Linux distro and started using it.<\/p>\n<p>                                            \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    \t\t\t\t    &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/levels-of-being-a-linux-user\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 7 levels of Linux users: Which one are you? https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/levels-of-being-a-linux-user\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-06 07:30:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a-thoughtful-linux-mascot-beside-two-linux-desktop-screens-divided-into-beginner-on-the-right-and-pro-on-the-left.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,110,79,167],"class_list":["post-231709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-linux-mint","tag-ubuntu","tag-zorin-os"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231711,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231709\/revisions\/231711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}