Da Oeuf

Website is someone else’s computer.

Slow mode?

where you can talk to actual helpful humans and solve a problem together if you get stuck

I’m not directly answering your question here, but I just want to say that https://slrpnk.net/c/linux@lemmy.ml here on Lemmy is exactly this and there are people using all sorts of distributions. I’ve found everyone there extremely helpful.

Permissions: check out the Concessio app (available from Flathub). Permissions are confusing for new Linux users and the app explains how they work and can generate them in numeric and symbolic formats for command line use.