Hello, because I need more complexity in my life (he doesn't), I've started setting up a #RaspberryPi as a media player on my TV. Which means I need to get a bit better at #linux, currently have never used it before.

I have a question about documentation and learning linux that maybe the fediverse can help with. When I need to add what the cool kids seem to call "A Repo" or perhaps "A Package", it will have a name like wf-panel-pi (true story, I'm being prompted to upgrade this right now).

I trust that I need to update this, and I'll do it, and I'd like to know a bit more about it so I can smugly tell other people what wf-panel-pi does. So I check the #gitHub page, and there's a readme file, cool.

The readme file has lots of content under headings like Install dependencies, Configure meson, Build, and Install. but nowhere does it say what the package actually does. I've had this experience multiple times, and I can see myself blundering into big crashes because I'm blindly installing packages without understanding them. The About section of the GitHub page reads as follows:

About
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Am I going about teaching myself Linux the wrong way? Yes probably, I should do a proper intro course, and maybe I will have to. I was hoping to get by learning as I go, is that naïve of me? I don't want to understand Linux code in a technical sense, but more in a utility sense, what does this do and why do I need it?
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