Linux For Dummies®

Condition of this book was excellent for it's age, very good delivery and well wrapped, I would recommend this book to and Linux users, a little out of date but serves it purpose.

Great book for learning about Linux, easy to follow.

This book, ordered from Watergate books, was three editions out of date - that means the accompanying Linux disk is not one that caters for drivers written in recent years. The advertised edition is 8th. The one I was sent is the 5th edition. The hours wasted trying to get the system to run and to find drivers etc before realizing what was wrong are unbelievable. Amazon is becoming sloppy with how it chooses associates... take care when ordering.

I read a lot of bad reviews of this book because it was 'hard' to understand or because it was focused only in Fedora, well I find it very clear and somewhat geeky, if not the whole book, but...that's what Linux's about, at least for me. If I wanted an easy OS I'd go with windows, but I've been with MS for way too much time, and I'm feeling like giving a chance (one of many other chances in the past) to Linux. I got this book for like...$5, so I can't actually complain. and basically all Linuxes will have the same core, maybe not, don't really know but I'm sure they'll have a lot in common. I would wonder why would the author choose Fedora instead of Ubuntu. but I guess that'll remain unanswered. Again the book was really cheap, and I get to learn Linux, so...it's pretty good for me. I would recommend it.

I am new to linux and therefore not ashamed of buying a "Dummies" book. But not for my purposes, it is probably useful for someone else. I get more info from watching YouTube tutorials and googling for topics I encounter.Just my opinion.