How can a typical Windows user migrate to Linux?

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The essence of the question is this: "I want to switch to Linux because I don't want to pay for Windows, and the pirate doesn't work." The next question is how to get to know him well. Maybe someone knows a book or resource in RUSSIAN, (preferably a book) to learn what it is. How to use at the level of an ordinary user is clear. I was on Ubuntu and its "forks" on Monjaro, Debian.
PS Here people are already beginning to "be smart" . If you can then please do not do this, it is better to pass by. If you answer the question then specifically: the book is such and such, the author is such and such, or you can study such and such ... Answers such as set yourself and then you will figure it out are not needed. I want to immediately see what it is at least in the big picture and then figure it out in detail myself. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I will also respect your desire to switch to a free OS.
I myself have been using GNU/Linux as my main (more precisely, the only) system for several years. I also recommend that you switch to a new OS immediately and irrevocably, without leaving MS Woe on the next partition. If you need specific windows programs, install a virtual machine.
The main thing is to start using and not jump off. In the process of work, you will have questions (elementary ones, for example, how to mount an ISO image, how to create partitions on a flash drive with different file systems, how to set up IP addressing or remote connection via SSH, configure an FTP server, etc.).
By solving them, you will learn. Learn how you learned to use MS Woe. Was there a time when you couldn't install/uninstall a program or set up a VPN? Also here.
GNU/Linux has a coherent architecture and UNIX user environment. The UNIX environment involves the use of a command shell and many command line utilities. So it’s worth starting training with the basics of bash (as the most popular shell) and these same utilities.
GUI tools are usually easy to use and vary from distribution to distribution. The command line interface is fixed by the POSIX/SUS/LSB standards. This is the basics that every uni/linux user should know.
In the future, having already migrated, I recommend mastering the C language. This language originated as a UNIX language and plays a key role in such systems today.
Materials for study:
Stolyarov A.V. UNIX OS operating environment for studying ...
Baurn S. UNIX operating system (the book is slightly outdated, but not critical, I recommend it).
There are also some interesting tutorials on stepic.org .
Well, for self-motivation: Why UNIX?
PS By the way, Stolyarov A.V. is working on an interesting book (learning to program from scratch using a UNIX-like system), anyone can donate to its creation.

Answer 2

I respect your choice towards free software.
You can install two operating systems on one computer. You can see how to do it on YouTube. But it's even better to use Windows under virtualbox, and separate programs from under wine.
Reading books is painful. It's easier to see a few videos from torrents and YouTube:
Ubuntu:
nnm-club.me/forum/viewtopic.php?t=234407
Author (director): Sergey Panzin
Title: Video tutorials for Linux Ubuntu beginners
Release year: 2010
Duration: 2: 58:44
Description:
Video tutorials tutorials for novice users of Linux Ubuntu.
Introduction:
0. Preparing to install Ubuntu 10.04 (130 Mb)
1. Setting up Bios (30.2 Mb)
2. Installing Linux Ubuntu 10.04 (108 Mb)
3. File manager in Linux Ubuntu 10.04 (65.6 Mb)
4. Working with the file system on the command line (14.6 Mb)
5. Installing the NVIDIA video card driver (117 Mb)
6 Overview of the Gnome graphical environment (80.6 MB)
7. Customizing the appearance of the Gnome graphical environment (67.7 MB)
8. Installing programs in Linux Ubuntu 10.04 (94 MB)
Bonus. How to quickly find the answer on the Linux system
Additional lessons.
1. Boost Linux Ubuntu. (In Ubuntu 10.04, the grub menu is accessed by holding down the shift key)
2. Mail.ru agent in Linux Ubuntu
3. Running windows programs in Linux Ubuntu
4. RAR archives in Linux Ubuntu 10.04
5. Running Photoshop CS5 on Linux Ubuntu
6. Working with soundfonts on Linux Ubuntu 10.04
7. Installing Russian language packs on Linux Ubuntu 10.04
8. Setting up Nvidia TV-OUT (S-VIDEO) on Linux Ubuntu 10.04
9. Installing a theme similar to windows xp
10. Installing and running Adobe Dreamweaver CS 4 on Linux Ubuntu 10.04
11. Installing a windows 7-like theme
12. Nautilus scripts
13. Running windows games on Linux Ubuntu 10.04
14. Virtual box on Linux Ubuntu 10.04
15. Activesync on Linux Ubuntu 10.04
16. Creating a local repository (debmirror)
17. Working with the console
A series of video tutorials on setting up and using compiz
1. Basic compiz settings. desktop cube
2. Advanced compiz settings
3. Other compiz effects
And also:
nnm-club.me/forum/viewtopic.php?t=768069
nnm-club.me/forum/viewtopic.php?t=82770
And then read books on specific programs. For example on Gimp. Although there is also a video on it. So you move on gradually.
Personally, I prefer Ubuntu with KDE GUI - kubuntu.

Answer 3

debian fork of ubuntu is strong!
To the point: try different distributions. If you liked it - move on, if you didn’t like it, sit on Windows, it’s unlikely that someone serious will come to your house unless you mess up somewhere outside the house, including in “these Internets of yours”.
PS Knowledge of English broadens one's horizons and is useful in everyday life :-)
WHY?

Answer 4

I would like to learn so that I can collect my own distributions and work with it freely

You checkers or go?
Collecting distributions and working in them are two different things. You need to move, just move.

Answer 5

SlackWare. Or Gentoo.
And if you want hardcore, then install Debian without a graphical shell.

Answer 6

If you want a "book in Russian", then even mastdayka will be too much!

Answer 7

Yes, just put Ubuntu as the least problematic system nearby.
If after 2 weeks you find out that for no task you had to boot Windows - congratulations, you can demolish it, the transition has taken place.
Everyday tasks are solved in an elementary way, if something exotic, such as creating a distribution kit, then this is no longer about the average user, as there will be specific questions, there will be specific advice and answers.
You didn't say what you need. There is a music/video player out of the box, an office suite, a browser, drivers - everything is there out of the box, that is, for an ordinary user, an hour or two is enough to get started. Steam for games is in the Ubuntu Software Center, it is installed with one click, although the firewood will need to be installed proprietary - in another window, one more click.

Answer 8

https://www.opensuse.org - I recommend... 2 years ago I switched from Genta... everything suits)