If you are looking to do much in the way of gaming I would look into PopOS
by system76. basically a version of ubuntu with some extras for wine/gaming.


On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 7:35 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> I tend to buy classes when on sale cheap (5-10 bucks) from Udemy, lately
> ansible, docker, k8s, and the material is usually really good.  I've not
> looked to see what sort of "beginner to linux" courses they have, but I'm
> almost certain they have some, and I tend to trust their content.
>
> As said, there's always the tubes with plenty of user generated content,
> at times better than what you get in higher education.
>
> Talking with someone recently trying to complete their masters degree from
> a local community college needing some missing math classes, she found the
> school edu material was mostly garbage, the video "classes" were terrible,
> and mostly had to end up teaching herself how to do it off youtube.  She
> found not only her teacher selling and giving away better classes on
> youtube and others, often far better than her school provided for the class
> (calculus).  I can only imagine how this is for anything directly
> CS-related, values of any degrees seem about worthless these days, moreso
> now post-covid when you can't even talk to a human.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 4:56 PM AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> After about a 10 year hiatus away from Linux I'm getting back into it for
>> daily use. I've been playing around with Ubuntu (and Zorrin). When I was
>> using Linux all those years ago it was mainly as command line against a
>> remote server (no desktop). But, now I want to learn more about using Linux
>> from a desktop user perspective for daily use.  I'm looking for how to do
>> stuff as a Linux user not so much administering the machine (although I
>> understand there's some cross over).  My main goal is to learn how to do
>> tasks on the Linux desktop that I currently do on Windows as a user and a
>> developer (I'm a SQL Server DBA).
>>
>> Googling for "How to do X in Linux" returns so many hits it's
>> overwhelming (and time consuming). So, I thought I'd ask the group to get
>> the good stuff directly. :)
>>
>> What recommendations can the group provide as far as learning resources?
>> Websites, newsletters, blogs, daily usage tips, etc?
>> Where do you guys go for this type of information?
>>
>> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Peter
>>
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