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Podcasts/Classes/Breakdowns of Use & Basic Knowledge? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by BrinkBreaker@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux@programming.dev

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Hello all!

I'm kinda finally done with windows, but I have a lot of small, maybe dumb questions.

I guess my first question is whether Linux knowledge in general is interchangeable between distros?

And second, more importantly, what are the good resources for learning basic things? Like if I want to play games I bought on steam, how can I expect that process to be different? If I want to manage files and folders and extensions and such how does that differ if at all from Windows. I'm coming from specifically windows, but I assume for people coming from Mac OS as well what are the do's and don'ts that you wouldn't necessarily think of when switching?

Are there any particularly well made and comprehensive instructional/introductory podcasts/YouTube video series/what have you that you would point me towards?

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

You ask a lot of questions as if they are connected XD dont worry but separate them more.

Steam is "the good side of Linux gaming" I suppose. I am struggling manually outside of steam, but if you use Steam, just use a modern distro with recent-ish packages and best the KDE Plasma Desktop (or others, but KDE works well), install the native steam client (not flatpak) and it should just work.

File extensions are the same lol. You can just copy them over. Linux can read NTFS and HFS+ which are the current filesystems used by macOS and Windows. Dont expect to use them long, but copying stuff over works. On the other hand, Windows, macOS (as well as Android and iOS) pretend as if there are only like 3 filesystems out there.

On Linux you dont even need extensions, you could remove them and they still work. Useful when downloading files from somewhere without an extension, like scraping a PHP website.