Why are you stuck in Windoze?

Maybe there's an escape

Ya, I should have explained that. I like PC gaming, and these games don't really work in Linux without hardware acceleration/etc.

Also, I need to use Microsoft Outlook for work, as they use Microsoft Exchange. :-/ I found some software that allows me to read my work email on my Linux machine, though.

@Duey GPU passthrough is a thing. You might want to look into it. Sadly I still don't have hardware that will support it and the setup is rather tricky -- so I just use a separate computer for my gaming stuff.

@alxa Hmmm, I haven't tried GPU pass through yet. Thanks.

Damn. It says I can only create 8 options max. So much for my plan to have a list of every OS the nerds on this site use.

@alxa Haha. Well, there are a boatload of linux distros. Maybe break it down into different posts per major distros and their derivatives? Like: Debian, Ubuntu, Devuan, etc... Hmm... I think bodhi is derived from ubuntu. Could get confusing fast! lol

@Renickulous @bingst Hey! I hadn't signed in for awhile, and I forgot was trying to manage a group. Derp.

Yes, that's a good idea. I should do that. Or maybe I should pick someone else to manage this group because I'm a lazy derp. Anyone interested in helping?

Note to self... fix OS metrics thing...

As for getting familiar with Linux -- I did it by jumping in with both feet. I replaced Windows than Linux and then was like "okay, brain. You can either remember this stuff, or we won't know how to use this computer anymore. Your move."

Every time I had a problem, I figured it out just by search engineing it. Most of the helpful information came from superuser.com & wiki.archlinux.org for more advanced stuff. For the basics, I mostly just used askubuntu.com, which has information pretty much relevant to EVERY Ubuntu-based distro (there's a lot).

If you want to try using it as your main driver OS (which is my preferred way of learning Linux, much like my preferred way of learning a language is moving to a country where that language is everywhere) -- I recommend Linux Mint XFCE edition if you like a highly customizable, minimalistic, yet familiar and beginner-friendly setup. If you have different criteria, I may have different recommendations.

As for youtube -- I really don't know of much youtube channels that do Linux-y stuff. I've seen a few, but never made much use of their content, so I don't know what to recommend. Sorry. Let me know if you have any other questions, Renickulous! I'll try to remember that this group exists next time.