Discussion on: Moving your workflow to Linux

Finally someone that doesn´t blame Linux for not beeing a clone of Windows or tries to sell it talking about software freedom (Yes GPL is awesome, but people usually doesn't care about it). Some tips for begginers:

• Dont be afraid of the teriminal, it aint that hard. The manpages and google are your friends.
• If you search for something try to look first in your distro's wiki, even in other distros wiki, package names will probably change, but everything else should be almost identical.
• Avoid pasting commands from the internet in the terminal without knowing what they do. Take a look at manpages first at least.
• Try new software, terminal emulators, shells, text editors, IDEs, file managers, even the whole destkop enviroment can be switched, don't get stucked into the default programs of your distro. Take a look at the ubuntu software center for example, or simply search for a type of program instead of the name of one in your package manager.
• Have fun, if you aren't confident enough to install it in your main pc, install it in a VM, or an old pc, install different distros, try things till you break something and take a look about why did it broke.