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What is your favorite Intro to Linux guide? (programming.dev)
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Local dummy here (slightly more technical than the average user, likely far less than most people in this community) considering switching over. Checked the sidebar for any beginner's resources and looked at a few of the top posts and saw mostly Linux news and stuff meant for people already using the OS.

For my specific case, I use a Mac as my daily driver and (heresy) I am happy, but I also have a Windows computer that I am thinking of switching over to Linux. I use it to play games my Mac can't, and to run !BOINC@sopuli.xyz (I do not run the community but the thing the community is about) and/or Folding at Home whenever I'm not using it to game. Some of them are Steam games, some indies not on Steam, some emulated. Little to no multiplayer games, and absolutely no multiplayer that has anticheat. I have tried running some of the Windows-exclusive games with WINE and they worked but ran extremely slowly, however that was done on my Mac so it may not represent the results of running WINE on Linux.

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[โ€“] koalaSunrise@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Forgot to mention there's also the linux upskill community on programming.dev as a continual improvement tool

Edit: spelling

[โ€“] andioop@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

!linuxupskillchallenge@programming.dev for people who that link is not working for. (I, personally, get a couldnt_find_post error.)

Sometimes I have been told my links don't work by some other people, but they work for me logged in and logged out. Wonder if it's that we're using different clients, and if your link would work for the people who cannot open my link successfully.