Anyone can learn Linux
I’ve been blessed/cursed to have used Linux in one form or another since 1997, starting with the Slackware ’96 Linux distribution. I’m doubly lucky in that I’ve been able to use Linux every day at work since 2005. Since 2005 I’ve been able to talk to thousands of computer users at every skill level.
One thing I’ve learned over the many years I’ve been blessed to run a computer refurbishing project is the fact that anyone can learn Linux. Several years ago we had a mixed martial artist come in to buy a computer. The person was open to trying Linux, but had never used it before. When they came in again a few years later they bought another Linux system, despite the fact we had a number of Windows systems at the same price point – they’d adapted to Linux just fine, without much help from us.
We did in fact help this individual when they had an issue with the computer connecting to the Internet. The fault was not with our Linux machine, but a VOIP router sold to them by the ISP (it had a bug in the IPv6 networking stack, and the computer was defaulting to IPv6, not IPv4. We switched the computer to IPv4 and they were able to use the VOIP router and computer).
You have to start some place
Everybody has to start some place on their journey to learning Linux. I’d like to think a good place to start is learning a bit about the Xubuntu Linux interface. As such I’ve created a Youtube video to help people understand some of the shortcuts in Xubuntu Linux: