As someone who grew up using windows, is there a series of tutorials or videos y’all recommend to learn Linux? I find myself running into issues, trying to find solutions online, and not even understanding the instructions. I’m sure most of this comes from not knowing bash (which I’ve started to learn using https://labex.io/linuxjourney).
Background: I’m a very competent windows user. I’ve built my own PC, etc. I mostly use it for gaming and Internet now but want to start self hosting some things. Oh, and I’m running bazzite.
Anyway, just trying to get out from Microsoft’s thumb.
Cheers.
Did you read tutorials or videos when you started using Windows? Probably not, you wanted to game or write or be social on the internet and you learned “on the job”.
It’s the same thing with Linux. Don’t take it too serious. Some nerds started that rumour that Linux is “hard” and only for the techi folks. That’s not true at all, it never was.
Yes, there are things that just work different and you have to find a new way to fix them. But it will come when you encounter them and we will be here to help.
Just start with Mint or Bazzite and you will be fine.
Linux was hard and that was true at some point though. I remember having to build kernels for Debian in order to have support for my motherboard, not sure what was the main issue there, but I had a hard time compiling them until they worked, this could be a couple days worth of trial and error…
That’s history. Still, it is not some rumour as you put it.